We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways

Thomsen, Lotte; Green, Eva G. T.; Sidanius, Jim

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.06.011

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“…In Samples Posse Scale, an instrument measuring one's willingness to participate in persecution of and violence against immigrants (Altemeyer, 1996;Thomsen et al, 2008). Sample 5 included some Intergroup attitudes hypothesized to be more strongly related to SDO-E. We expected political conservatism (in the U.S.), system justification/legitimacy beliefs, opposition to affirmative action, the Protestant work ethic, the belief that college admissions are fair, opposition to various redistributive racial/social policies, symbolic racism, and affect toward the was unique in assessing support for symbolic racism, which contrasts with the "old-fashioned" Israeli hostility towards Palestinians, we reasoned that affect toward Palestinians would be predicted substantially more by support for active group dominance than by opposition to group equality.…”

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Social Dominance Orientation

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Social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most powerful predictors of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Although SDO works well as a unitary construct, some analyses suggest it might consist of two complementary dimensions-SDO-Dominance (SDO-D), or the preference for some groups to dominate others, and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E), a preference for nonegalitarian intergroup relations. Using seven samples from the United States and Israel, the authors confirm factor-analytic evidence and show predictive validity for both dimensions. In the United States, SDO-D was theorized and found to be more related to old-fashioned racism, zero-sum competition, and aggressive intergroup phenomena than SDO-E; SDO-E better predicted more subtle legitimizing ideologies, conservatism, and opposition to redistributive social policies. In a contentious hierarchical intergroup context (the Israeli-Palestinian context), SDO-D better predicted both conservatism and aggressive intergroup attitudes. Fundamentally, these analyses begin to establish the existence of complementary psychological orientations underlying the preference for group-based dominance and inequality.

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Social Dominance Orientation

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“…This supports the idea that family cohesion promotes interactions with culturally similar persons, and that people from different cultural backgrounds can be seen as threatening the cultural identity of one's own group (Huijnk et al 2010). In addition, opinions towards ethnic diversity have been found to be highly correlated with intergroup relations (McIntosh et al 1995;Thomsen et al 2008;Cohrs and Stelzl 2010;Duckitt and Sibley 2010;Morrison et al 2010). …”

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What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? An analysis at the regional level

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Different disciplines within the social sciences have produced large theoretical and empirical literatures to explain the determinants of anti-immigration attitudes. We bring together these literatures in a unified framework and identify testable hypothesis on what characteristics of the individual and of the local environment are likely to have an impact on anti-immigration attitudes. While most of the previous literature focuses on the explanation of attitudes at the individual level, we focus on the impact on regional characteristics (the local context). Our aim is to explain why people living in different regions differ in terms of their attitudes towards immigration. We isolate the impact of regions from regressions using individual-level data and explain this residual regional heterogeneity in attitudes with aggregate level indicators of regional characteristics. We find that regions with a higher percentage of immigrants born outside the EU and a higher unemployment rate among the immigrant population show a higher probability that natives express negative attitudes to immigration. Regions with a higher unemployment rate among natives however, show less pronounced anti-immigrant attitudes.JEL Classification: F22; J15; J61; R19

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“…RWA should thus be positively associated to both dimensions of retribution. 5 Furthermore, high RWA individuals seek to maintain in-group conformity (Thomsen, Green, & Sidanius, 2008) and they should favour harsh punishment to restore people's faith in shared values. The effect of RWA on punitiveness should be mediated by a symbolic motive to restore values.…”

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