Prejudice and personality: A role for positive-approach processes?

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-1825|35|6|446-447

ISSN: 0140-525x

Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.35, Iss.6, 2012-12, pp. : 446-447

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Abstract

Individuals differ in their support for social change. We argue that examinations of inequality and change would benefit from consideration of underlying personality processes. New data suggest that Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation, indicators of support for inequality, may be motivated by biologically driven personality processes, particularly those related to positive-approach motivation.