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On the ideological consistency between right-wing authoritarianism and social domince orientation.
Stefano BocaChris G. SibleyAlberto MirisolaJohn Duckittsubject
Social dominanceSalience (language)AuthoritarianismRight-wing authoritarianismAuthoritarianismBiology and political orientationSocial groupPoliticsPolitical systemIdentityPolitical orientationPsychologySocial dominance orientationSocial psychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia SocialeGeneral Psychologydescription
Abstract The authors argue that cross-national variation in the association between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) depends upon the degree to which political systems are organized along a single explicitly ideologically articulated left–right dimension. In societies where the political system is ideologized along a single dimension, RWA and SDO should be strongly positively correlated, and the magnitude of this association should be moderated by political identification. This hypothesis was tested in Italy, a society where the political system is highly ideologized, using analyses of concurrent data from student (N = 148) and community samples (N = 133) (study 1), and an experiment in which the salience of peoples’ political identification was manipulated (study 2; N = 151). In both studies, stronger political identification was associated with a significantly stronger positive RWA–SDO association, although mean levels of RWA and SDO did not vary across conditions in study 2.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-11-01 |