Personality and Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis and Theoretical Review
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Abstract
Despite a substantial literature examining personality, prejudice, and related constructs such as Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), there have been no systematic reviews in this area. The authors reviewed and meta-analyzed 71 studies (N = 22,068 participants) investigating relationships between Big Five dimensions of personality, RWA, SDO, and prejudice. RWA was predicted by low Openness to Experience but also Conscientiousness, whereas SDO was predicted by low Agreeableness and also weakly by low Openness to Experience. Consistent with a dual-process motivational model of ideology and prejudice, the effects of Agreeableness on prejudice were fully mediated by SDO, and…
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- Agreeableness
- Psychology
- Social dominance orientation
- Social psychology
- Conscientiousness
- Openness to experience
- Hierarchical structure of the Big Five
- Prejudice (legal term)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Reduced inequalities
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