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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Right Wing Authoritarianism"”.
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FEMINIST ORIENTATION AND RIGHT WING AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE PERCEPTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ACCUSATIONS
… radically conservative views, specifically Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), are particularly insensitive to sexual harassment, denying that it exists even when evidence is strong. We hypothesized that perceiver gender, attitudes toward the feminist movement, stages of feminist identity, …
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The mediating effect of dispositional mindfulness upon the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism/social dominance orientation and anti-Black prejudice
… The current study examined the relations between Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) (traits that have established connections to anti-Black prejudice), anti-Black prejudice, and Dispositional Mindfulness (DM) using a mediation model. DM did not significantly …
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Anti-fat prejudice toward women : an exploration of psychosocial ideologies among college students
… at women – social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, hostile sexism, and benevolent sexism – among college students. It was hypothesized that the four factors would be positively related to anti-fat prejudice toward women, benevolent sexism and hostile sexism would …
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Personality and Perceived Police Legitimacy
… examined the HEXACO model of personality and right-wing authoritarianism as predictors of perceived police legitimacy among college students (<em>N</em> = 268). While taking gender, race, and social desirability into account, HEXACO Agreeableness and Openness predicted perceived police …
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The Authoritarian Personality and Economic Distress
… personality and social indicator approaches of authoritarianism to determine if these separate approaches reflect similar constructs, and also examined whether economic distress increases authoritarianism and its internal coherence. The writer, in contrast with the time-series designs used in …
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Predictors of Preferences For Performance of Emotional Work
… socialization component of conscientiousness and authoritarianism are likely to relate to individuals' willingness in displaying emotional requirements. A sample of 161 undergraduate students served as participants. The participants were required to attend one laboratory session where they …
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The Effect of Mindfulness on Racial Stereotype Activation and Application
… Explicit racism (Modern Racism Scale, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation), mindfulness (Five- Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire), depression, anxiety, and stress (Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale) were also examined. Sixty traditional-aged undergraduate women …
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Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion on Human Evolution
… had multiple measures of religiosity and the Right-Wing-Authoritarianism personality scale. Using this uniquely rich data set I develop a model of the nature and organization of these various attitude structures.</p><p>Data analyses on explanation of public acceptance or rejection of evolution …
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Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression
… current study investigated relationships between authoritarianism, hostility toward women, attitudes toward violence, and rape myth acceptance, as related sexual aggression in undergraduate men It was projected that authoritarianism, hostility toward women, attitudes toward violence, and rape myth …
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Authoritarianism revisited: a study among Afrikaans and English middle-class women
This study explored the concept of authoritarianism from a social group perspective. It was argued that authoritarian social attitudes are derived from social categorisations (underpinned by ideological beliefs) which maintain imbalances in power and authoritarian social structures and practices. …
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
… Religiosity was related to cognitive style. Right wing authoritarianism predicted epistemic beliefs in certain knowledge and omniscient authority. Epistemic beliefs, religiosity and cognitive reflection did not influence two critical aspects of abductive reasoning: the total number of …
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Emerging political conflicts and the role of personality
… immigration attitudes in the UK. Focusing on authoritarianism, we show that ‘right-wing authoritarianism’ is very strongly associated with immigration attitudes – much more so than competing measures, such as ‘social dominance orientation’, left-right placement, and even a measure of explicit …
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Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Behavior in Majority and Minority Groups
The influence of authoritarianism, social dominance, and ingroup identification on ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination in a minimal group paradigm were investigated in this study. Possible effects of majority and minority group size interactions with these constructs were also examined. …
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Personality and Cultural Attitudes
… 2) Openness predicts cultural attitudes through right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Notably, I extended the Dual Process Model given that the original version (DPM) only explains prejudice, whereas my version (DPM-2) explains both cultural prejudice and cultural appreciation as dual outcomes. This …
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… Anxiety, Social Dominance Orientation, Right-wing Authoritarianism). Study 2 considered a different target category (i.e., Blacks) and attempted to strengthen the effects found by comparing the impact of subliminal empathy primes (relative to no prime or subliminal primes of empathy …
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Zeitgenössische Vorurteile : Erfassung, Erklärung und Reduktion
… intentions. Further, the attitude dimensions Right-Wing-Authoritarianism (RWA, Altemeyer, 1981, 1988, 1996, 1998) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO, Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth & Malle, 1994) were included in the validation, because both underlie prejudice (e.g. Altemeyer, 1998; Duriez & …
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The Risky Side of Creativity: A Scientific Investigation of Creativity and Domain Specific Risk Taking
… consists of individuals who subscribe to the right-wing socio-political ideologies. As predicted, individuals who affiliated to the right-wing socio-political ideologies (in the United States) were found to be low on creativity and were significantly less likely to take risks, specifically in …
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The Behavioral immune system and attitudes toward COVID-19
The Behavioral Immune System acts as the first line of defense against harmful pathogens. One of the primary functions of this system is the emotion of disgust. It compels individuals to adopt socially conservative attitudes to avoid people and stimuli that could infect the individual with an …
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The Influence of Personality Traits and Officer Variables on Perception of Excessive Force
<p>Often there are reports of people being the victims of excessive force from law enforcement officers. Despite the occurrence of documented cases of excessive force, there is a possibility that accusations of excessive force are exaggerated. Personality and situational theories have been applied …