Personality traits are directly associated with anti-black prejudice in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Modern psychological theories postulate that individual differences in prejudice are determined by social and ideological attitudes instead of personality. For example, the dual-process motivational (DPM) model argues that personality does not directly associate with prejudice when controlling for the attitudinal variables that capture the authoritarian-conservatism motivation and the dominance motivation. Previous studies testing the DPM model largely relied on convenience samples and/or European samples, and have produced inconsistent results. Here we examined the extent to which anti-black prejudice was associated with the Big Five personality traits and social and ideological attitudes (authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, political party affiliation) in two large probabilit

SUBMITTER: Lin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329088 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature