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Right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation differentially predict biased evaluations of media reports
Author(s) -
Crawford Jarret T.,
Jussim Lee,
Cain Thomas R.,
Cohen Florette
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00990.x
Subject(s) - social dominance orientation , psychology , social psychology , authoritarianism , dominance (genetics) , affirmative action , politics , biology and political orientation , political science , democracy , biochemistry , chemistry , law , gene
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.