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Personality, Ideology, Prejudice, and Politics: A Dual‐Process Motivational Model

Personality, Ideology, Prejudice, and Politics: A Dual‐Process Motivational Model 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Personality Wiley

Personality, Ideology, Prejudice, and Politics: A Dual‐Process Motivational Model

Journal of Personality , Volume 78 (6) – Jan 1, 2010

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 Wiley Subscription Services
ISSN
0022-3506
eISSN
1467-6494
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00672.x
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21039534
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Abstract

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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Journal of PersonalityWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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