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Intergroup Ideology and Environmental Inequality
Author(s) -
Jackson Lynne M.,
Bitacola Lisa M.,
Janes Leslie M.,
Esses Victoria M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/asap.12035
Subject(s) - social dominance orientation , dominance (genetics) , ideology , ingroups and outgroups , population , inequality , social psychology , environmental justice , psychology , political science , sociology , demography , politics , law , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , biochemistry , authoritarianism , democracy , gene
Three studies showed that social dominance orientation could contribute to environmental inequality through its association with environmental and economic ideologies, pursuit of ingroup interest, and relative indifference toward groups with low economic standing. Study 1 showed that social dominance orientation is correlated with a lack of concern for the natural environment and with the endorsement of free‐market ideology. In Study 2, people higher in social dominance orientation endorsed a polluting industry that hurt a foreign population when the industry benefited their ingroup. Study 3 demonstrated that, given a choice of locations to site an environmentally problematic industry, people higher in social dominance orientation chose to direct the dangerous environmental footprint toward economically vulnerable foreign populations, and this was because of their relative lack of concern for human justice.