Personality, Ideology, Prejudice, and Politics: A Dual‐Process Motivational Model
2010/10/12 by John Duckitt, Chris G. Sibley · 790 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Authoritarianism #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Cultural Differences and Values #Democracy #Dimension (graph theory) #Dominance (genetics) #Ideology #Personality #Political science #Politics #Prejudice (legal term) #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social dominance orientation #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00672.x
published in Journal of Personality 78(6), 1861-1894 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2010/10/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Abstract
Early theorists assumed that sociopolitical or ideological attitudes were organized along a single left-right dimension and directly expressed a basic personality dimension. Empirical findings, however, did not support this and suggested that there seem to be 2 distinct ideological attitude dimensions, best captured by the constructs of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, which express 2 distinct sets of motivational goals or values. We outline a dual-process motivational (DPM) model of how these 2 dimensions originate from particular personality dispositions and socialized worldview beliefs and how and why their different underlying motivational goals or values generate their wide-ranging effects on social outcomes, such as prejudice and politics. We then review new research bearing on the model and conclude by noting promising directions for future research.
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