Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

Ho, Arnold K.; Sidanius, James; Pratto, Felicia; Levin, Shana; Thomsen, L. A.

doi:10.1037/e514892012-001

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“…38 Altemeyer 1988. 39 E.g., Ho et al 2012;Kandler, Bell, and Riemann 2016. areas: (1) the role of political engagement in political attitude structuring and (2) cross-national differences in institutions, development and modernization.…”

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Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Malka¹,

Lelkes²,

Soto³

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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The right-left dimension is ubiquitous in politics, but prior perspectives provide conflicting accounts of whether cultural and economic attitudes are typically aligned on this dimension within mass publics around the world. Using survey data from ninety-nine nations, this study finds not only that right-left attitude organization is uncommon, but that it is more common for culturally and economically right-wing attitudes to correlate negatively with each other, an attitude structure reflecting a contrast between desires for cultural and economic protection vs. freedom. This article examines where, among whom and why protection-freedom attitude organization outweighs right-left attitude organization, and discusses the implications for the psychological bases of ideology, quality of democratic representation and the rise of extreme right politics in the West.Keywords: public opinion; political ideology; political attitude constraint; political psychology; comparative politicsThe right-left ideological dimension is a fundamental feature of politics in many nations around the world. 1 This article examines the relationship between two preference dimensions that are widely recognized as central to ideological differences between the right and left: the economic dimension, which concerns redistributive social welfare preferences and views about the proper scope of government economic involvement, and the cultural dimension, which concerns views on matters such as sexual morality and immigration. 2 Within mass publics around the world, do people who hold right-wing cultural attitudes also tend to adopt right-wing economic attitudes? Do left-wing cultural attitudes typically go with left-wing economic attitudes? The established view from political science is that there do not exist psychological constraints that would make this the case for most of the people most of the time. 3 In contrast, an influential research tradition within psychology specifies that cultural and economic conservatism have common psychological origins and thus typically co-occur. 4 Despite its theoretical importance and potential implications for quality of democratic representation, the typical association between cultural and economic attitudes within mass publics around the world has not been firmly empirically established.In this article we report what is to our knowledge the largest cross-national test to date of this empirical relationship, using World Values Survey (WVS) data from 229 national samples spanning ninety-nine nations. We furthermore examine how the alignment of these two dimensions varies across people and contexts. Our findings suggest that: (1) it is not typical for

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Section: Conservatismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Malka¹,

Lelkes²,

Soto³

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

181

226

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“…Although a clear factor structure did not emerge for measures of SDO and RWA, the internal structure of these constructs has been explored at length elsewhere, with SDO comprising two components (Ho et al, 2012), and RWA comprising three components (Mavor, Louis, & Sibley, 2010). In summary, endorsing change status quo as values were found to be statistically distinct from political ideologies and attitudes.…”

Section: Political Conservatismmentioning

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“…We adapted a recent revision of the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) measure to assess participants' preference for social dominance (Ho et al, 2012). This 16-item measure includes both positively-and negatively-worded items.…”

Section: Social Dominance Orientationmentioning

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Personal values about change and status quo influence outsiders' appraisals of intergroup conflict

Saeri¹,

Iyer²,

Louis³

2016

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“…Individuals with pronounced dark traits are often perceived as braggarts, cheaters, manipulators, sadists, trolls, bullies, or downright aggressors (Paulhus, 2014). They tend to be disagreeable (Jakobwitz & Egan, 2006;Paulhus & Williams, 2002), socially dominant (Ho et al, 2012), manipulative and callous (Jones & Figueredo, 2013;Muris, Merckelbach, Otgaar, & Meijer, 2017), prejudiced toward outgroup members (Hodson, Hogg, & MacInnis, 2009), promiscuous and sexually exploitative (Jonason, Li, Webster, & Schmitt, 2009), and physically, verbally, and relationally aggressive (Baughman, Dearing, Giammarco, & Vernon, 2012;Jones & Paulhus, 2010;Thomaes, Bushman, Orobio de Castro, Cohen, & Denissen, 2009). Although they are not necessarily incompetent when it comes to understanding other people's perspectives, they display reduced empathic concern toward others (Vonk, Zeigler-Hill, Ewing, Mercer, & Noser, 2015;Wai & Tiliopoulos, 2012).…”

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The dark personality and psychopathology: Toward a brighter future.

Thomaes¹,

Brummelman²,

Miller³

et al. 2017

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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The young field of research on dark personality traits (i.e., socially aversive traits such as psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) is gaining momentum. This Special Section examines the nature, origins, development, and sequelae of dark traits, underscoring their largely unappreciated relevance to abnormal psychology. The articles in this section adopt diverse perspectives (e.g., clinical, developmental, organizational, social personality), use diverse methods (e.g., longitudinal, experience sampling), and sample diverse populations (e.g., offenders, psychiatric outpatients, schoolchildren). As an introduction to the Special Section, this article identifies key conceptual and methodological challenges to the field of dark personality research. Its aim is to spur novel approaches to how dark personality traits are implicated in psychopathology and abnormal behavior more broadly. General Scientific SummaryDark personality traits are socially aversive traits such as psychopathy, narcissism, or Machiavellianism. This introduction to the Special Section discusses key opportunities and challenges for the field, and highlights future directions for research that should shed light on how dark traits are implicated in psychopathology.

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Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

Cited by 150 publications

References 1 publication

Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Are Cultural and Economic Conservatism Positively Correlated? A Large-Scale Cross-National Test

Personal values about change and status quo influence outsiders' appraisals of intergroup conflict

The dark personality and psychopathology: Toward a brighter future.

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