Predicting explicit and implicit attitudes towards gay men using the dual process model of prejudice and the dark tetrad

Moor, Lily; Kapelles, Tayla; Koç, Yasin; Anderson, Joel

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.029

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“…Both findings suggest that aspects of the low status groups in question, perhaps perceived competition and threat as well as the symbolic or realistic nature of the competition and threat, are important moderators of the effect. There is not strong evidence that those higher in SDO perceive LGBT individuals as threats (Moor et al, 2019;Whitley, Jr. & Lee, 2000), which supports the lack of connection between SDO and schadenfreude. Similarly, homeless people are routinely dehumanized (Bruneau et al, 2018) and subjected to punitive policies (Faragó et al, 2021), supporting a particularly strong connection between SDO and schadenfreude.…”

Section: Emotions and Policymentioning

confidence: 83%

Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude

Hudson¹,

Cikara²,

Sidanius³

2022

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Individuals who have relatively higher levels of social dominance orientation (SDO; Ho et al., 2015) are more likely to support policies and engage in behaviors that harm marginalized groups through both passive (e.g., neglect) and active (e.g., subjugation) means. While SDO is positioned as a relevant antecedent to outcomes regarding intergroup conflict, the mechanisms by which SDO impact group harm are underspecified. In this paper we investigate the social emotions of intergroup empathy and schadenfreude—the congruent negative and incongruent positive emotional reactions, respectively, a person has in response to the suffering of members from another social group—as key mediators between SDO and intergroup harm. More specifically, we test a model in which SDO leads to active harm primarily through feeling schadenfreude while SDO leads to passive harm primarily through not feeling empathy. In four pre-registered studies (N = 3,468), we show initial support for this model, as SDO’s associations with actively harmful policy support were more strongly mediated through schadenfreude than empathy, while SDO’s associations with passively harmful policy support were more strongly mediated through empathy than schadenfreude. We discuss the relevance of these findings to intergroup conflict interventions more broadly, as well as highlight the role of schadenfreude in motivating intergroup harm.

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Section: Emotions and Policymentioning

confidence: 83%

Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude

Hudson¹,

Cikara²,

Sidanius³

2022

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“…1 Significant and non-significant results remain when not controlling for gender in Study 1. Jonason et al, 2020;Jones, 2013;Moor et al, 2019). Integrating the literature on psychopathy and empathy with social ideology, we hypothesize that psychopathic personality traits predict a lack of empathy, resulting in increased levels of SDO and RWA, which in turn predict prejudice.…”

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confidence: 92%

Psychopathy and prejudice: The mediating role of empathy, social dominance orientation and right‐wing authoritarianism

Stathi

Humayun

Isaac

et al. 2021

J Theo Social Psycho

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A current shift in intergroup relations research aims to delve deeper into whether, and how, individual differences predict social attitudes. Recent research goes beyond the measurement of typical personality traits and focuses also on the subclinical area of malicious traits. The present studies aimed at exploring the role of one such trait, psychopathy, as a predictor of negative social attitudes. The role of empathy was examined as a key underlying process explaining the relationship between primary and secondary psychopathy and social attitudes. Study 1 (N = 171) and Study 2 (N = 332) demonstrated that when entered as simultaneous predictors of negative attitudes toward immigrants (Study 1) and racism (Study 2), only primary psychopathy emerged as a significant predictor. Study 1 further demonstrated that lower levels of empathy mediated the psychopathy-attitudes path. Study 2 decomposed empathy into cognitive and affective, and tested the explanatory role of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Primary psychopathy predicted lower cognitive and affective empathy, which sequentially predicted racism via SDO (in the case of cognitive empathy) and RWA (in the case of affective empathy). The results are discussed in the context of an integration between the personality and intergroup relations literature. | 531 STATHI eT Al.the first time, the mediating role of empathy (Studies 1 and 2) and social ideology variables, specifically SDO and RWA (Study 2). | Individual differences and prejudiceResearch investigating the relationship between individual differences and prejudice now integrates personality and social psychological approaches (see Hodson et al., 2017) and seeks to understand further if, and why, some individuals are more prejudiced than others by exploring personality traits that have been overlooked in the past.

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“…For example, some studies have found that psychopathy is associated with aggression towards gay men (Parrott & Zeichner, 2006) and collective narcissism is associated with prejudice towards both lesbian women and gay men (Marchlewska et al, 2021). Other studies have, however, found no association between any of the antagonistic personality traits and homophobic bullying (Nappa et al, 2019) and still others have found negative associations (at least when examined at the zeroorder level) between the antagonistic personality traits and explicit homophobic attitudes (Moor et al, 2019).…”

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Moral foundations partially explain the association of the Dark Triad traits with homophobia and transphobia

Kay¹,

Dimakis²

2022

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People with antagonistic personality traits are reportedly more racist, sexist, and xenophobic than their non-antagonistic counterparts. In the present studies (N1 = 718; N2 = 267), we examined whether people with antagonistic personality traits are also more likely to hold homophobic and transphobic attitudes, and, if they are, whether this can be explained by their moral intuitions. We found that people high in Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy are more likely to endorse homophobic and transphobic views. The associations of Machiavellianism and psychopathy with homophobia and transphobia were primarily explained by low endorsement of individualizing moral foundations (i.e., care and fairness), while the association of narcissism with these beliefs was primarily explained by high endorsement of the binding moral foundations (i.e., loyalty, authority, and sanctity). These findings provide insight into the types of people who harbour homophobic and transphobic attitudes and how differences in moral dispositions contribute to their LGBTQ+ prejudice.

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Predicting explicit and implicit attitudes towards gay men using the dual process model of prejudice and the dark tetrad

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Cited by 13 publications

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Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude

Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude

Psychopathy and prejudice: The mediating role of empathy, social dominance orientation and right‐wing authoritarianism

Moral foundations partially explain the association of the Dark Triad traits with homophobia and transphobia

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