On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism

Milfont, Taciano L.; Bain, Paul G.; Kashima, Yoshihisa; Corral-Verdugo, Vı́ctor; Pasquali, Carlota; Johansson, Lisa; Guan, Yanjun; Gouveia, Valdiney Velôso; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Doron, Guy; Bilewicz, Michał; Utsugi, Akira; Aragonés, Juan Ignacio; Steg, Linda; Soland, Martin; Park, Joonha; Otto, Siegmar; Demarque, Christophe; Wagner, Claire; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Lebedeva, Nadezhda; González, Roberto; Schultz, P. Wesley; Sáiz, José L.; Kurz, Tim; Gifford, Robert; Akotia, Charity S.; Saviolidis, Nína M.; Einarsdóttir, Gró

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“…Although the SDO main effect did not emerge, note that the zero‐order correlations between SDO and pro‐environmental intentions, r = −.18 and −.17, p < .01, for citizenship and private behavioral intentions, respectively, are largely consistent with the correlations reported in a recent research by Milfont et al. () across 25 countries with student samples (Average random‐effects mean weighted correlations for citizenship intentions and private behavioral intentions were [−.27, −.14] and [−.27, −.17], respectively.) Thus, the current findings lent support for the negative association between SDO and pro‐environmentalism that has been found in prior research.…”

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“…We adapted measures of pro‐environmental intentions from past research (Milfont et al., ; Stern, Dietz, Abel, Guagnano, & Kalof, ). The first 12‐item measure captures pro‐environmental citizenship intentions through assessing participants’ intent to participate in social movements to protect the environment (e.g., “Sign a petition in support of protecting the environment.” “Join or renew membership of an environmental group.”), α = .92.…”

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“…SDO is a group‐based orientation reflecting people's degree of attitudinal support that groups occupy different levels of a hierarchy and thus are not equal to each other (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, ). Existing research has lent support for a robust negative association between SDO and pro‐environmentalism in both Western and non‐Western countries (Milfont et al., ; Milfont et al, ; Pratto et al., ). This is based on the contention that beliefs about legitimizing group hierarchy and inequality in the social sphere extend to beliefs about legitimizing human dominance over the environment in the natural sphere (Milfont et al., ).…”

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Understanding pro‐environmental intentions by integrating insights from social mobility, cosmopolitanism, and social dominance

Leung

Koh

2018

Asian J of Social Psycho

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To offer an integrative account bridging individuals' sociocultural orientations with pro-environmentalism, the current research tested the mediating and moderating relationships among pro-environmental intentions and three person-level factors: perceived social mobility, cosmopolitan orientation, and social dominance orientation (SDO). With a Singaporean college student sample (N = 220), we found support for the hypothesized second-stage moderation model that perceived social mobility positively predicts cosmopolitan orientation, and in turn, cosmopolitan orientation is moderated by SDO to positively predict proenvironmental intentions. Specifically, lower levels of SDO strengthen the pro-environmental advantages of endorsing higher levels of cosmopolitan orientation. These findings add novel knowledge to the environmental psychology literature by advancing an integrative approach that demonstrates how the interplay of people's perceptions about the social, cultural, and group standing impacts their likelihood to engage in proenvironmental actions. We discuss the implications that an egalitarian worldview toward other cultures, social groups, and human-nature relations might be the key to addressing the global challenge of climate change.

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2018

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“…More directly, Panno et al ( 2017 ) showed that a positive relationship between trait mindfulness and ecological behavior was mediated through decreased social dominance orientation using a known group approach. This personality trait of questioning existing inequalities between social groups has been repeatedly shown to relate to environmentalism (Milfont et al, 2017 ). Barbaro and Pickett ( 2015 ) focused on biospheric instead of altruistic concerns and showed that the relationship of mindfulness on ecological behavior is mediated by their connectedness to nature (Mayer and Frantz, 2004 ).…”

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Mindfully Green and Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior

Geiger¹,

Otto

Schrader

2018

Front. Psychol.

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This paper examines the nature of the link between mindfulness and ecological behavior. Based on the notion that mindfulness incorporates heightened awareness of bodily sensations, we suggest an indirect path from mindfulness to ecological behavior that is mediated through individual health behavior, such as improved nutrition and increased exercise. This indirect path is corroborated with two online studies (n = 147/n = 239) where mindfulness, personal health behavior and ecological behavior were assessed. We conclude that increased mindful awareness of momentary experience indeed favors more healthy lifestyles, which in turn relate to increased ecological behavior beyond personal health benefits. The findings support an agreeableness of personal and planetary health behavior and open up a path for environmental educational interventions based on mindfulness practices and personal health gains.

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“…Conventionally, a more pronounced SDO is associated with political conservatism, both in terms of an explicit rating of self-declared ideological orientation (e.g., Ho et al, 2012;Kugler et al, 2014;Pratto et al, 1994;van Hiel & Mervielde, 2002;Wilson & Sibley, 2013) and political preferences linked traditionally with the political right-wing (e.g., anti-environmental policies, opposition to welfare spending, and heterosexism; e.g., Eldridge & Johnson, 2011;Ho et al, 2015;Milfont et al, 2018;Stanley & Wilson, 2019). However, in recent unstable times we have seen moves from the political left-wing to attempt to force through changes to the social hierarchy in order to make amends for historical wrongs and place lower status group members above those of a traditionally higher status.…”

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Ideological measurement in social and political psychology

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2020

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As the domains of social and personality psychological science undergo marked changes in their approach to research (e.g., open science practices, and addressing the replication crisis), it is important to undertake a full review of the tools and measures that we have at our disposal.In addition, the growing sense of political and ideological polarization in contemporary western democracies necessitates a coherent and internally consistent approach to studying politically and ideologically sensitive topics. This paper explores the measurement and study of such topics, and posits that claims about (a)symmetries between ideological partisans may be rooted in different measurement approaches. A more consistent and ecologically valid approach to studying partisan engagement with political topics is advocated, focusing on situational responses to ideologically salient scenarios, rather than placing our focus on results from decontextualized self-report individual difference measures. Suggestions for broader debiasing research reforms are also explored. Ideological measurement in social and political psychologyThe landscape of social psychology is currently undergoing some stark changes.Emerging practices to address the 'replication crisis' (Brandt et al., 2014;Lindsay, 2015) and the advent of increasingly open research practices, such as data-and materials-sharing, protocol and analytic pre-registration, and the peer-review of research plans before data are collected and results are known (Chambers, 2018;van't Veer & Giner-Sorolla, 2016; have led the field to consider some of the questionable research practices that have historically persisted in some spheres .Although these movements are clearly positive for the state of our science, they focus only on the higher-level processes associated with potential biases in research design and execution. This paper begins by looking at the 'nuts and bolts' of social and personality psychological research, as applied in the political domain, to explore potential sources of ideological bias in the conceptualization and interpretation of ideologies. That is, there is an argument to be made that our current approaches to studying similarities and differences between those from competing political or ideological persuasions (from here, these similarities and differences are referred to as 'political/ideological (a)symmetries') may contain epistemic biases on the part of the field in the aggregate. In doing so, a critique of commonly used measurement tools in the political psychology domain is offered, and further suggestions for alternative approaches to researching ideological (a)symmetries are offered that are consistent with the continuing the recent advances in social psychological research.

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On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism

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Understanding pro‐environmental intentions by integrating insights from social mobility, cosmopolitanism, and social dominance

Understanding pro‐environmental intentions by integrating insights from social mobility, cosmopolitanism, and social dominance

Mindfully Green and Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior

Ideological measurement in social and political psychology

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