Right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation differentially predict biased evaluations of media reports

2013/01/01 by Jarret T. Crawford, Lee Jussim, Thomas R. Cain +1 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Gender Politics and Representation #Social dominance orientation #Psychology #Social psychology #Authoritarianism #Dominance (genetics) #Affirmative action #Politics #Biology and political orientation #Political science #Democracy

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00990.x

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Abstract

Abstract This study tested the dual‐process motivational (DPM) model, which posits that right‐wing authoritarianism ( RWA ) and social dominance orientation ( SDO ) differentially predict attitudes toward socially threatening or subordinate groups, respectively. Participants read articles on same‐sex relationships and affirmative action and evaluated the article content and the biases of the article authors. The article conclusions (i.e., pro‐ or anti‐same‐sex relationships and affirmative action) were varied between subjects. As expected, only RWA predicted evaluations of the same‐sex relationships articles and authors, whereas only SDO predicted evaluations of the affirmative action articles and authors. These results extend applications of the dual‐process model by demonstrating that RWA and SDO differentially predict evaluations of political information that pertains to socially threatening or subordinate groups, respectively.

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