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Personality, Ideology, Prejudice, and Politics: A Dual‐Process Motivational Model
Author(s) -
Duckitt John,
Sibley Chris G.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00672.x
Subject(s) - social dominance orientation , psychology , prejudice (legal term) , personality , ideology , social psychology , authoritarianism , politics , dominance (genetics) , dimension (graph theory) , democracy , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , gene
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.