The COVID-19 pandemic has been instrumental in creating a dramatic shift from people's
need to live in mutual association toward a desire to stigmatize distinctive others. Pandemic …

The study of authoritarianism and other personality theories of political attitudes is often
dismissed a priori as an illegitimate, value-laden attempt to correlate general psychological …

A new conceptualization and measurement of social dominance orientation—individual
differences in the preference for group based hierarchy and inequality—is introduced. In …

The Dark Triad consists of three overlapping but distinct personality variables: narcissism,
Machiavellianism and psychopathy. To date, however, no research has empirically identified …

This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and
discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind …

Social dominance orientation (SDO), one's degree of preference for inequality among social
groups, is introduced. On the basis of social dominance theory, it is shown that (a) men are …

Allport (1954) recognized that attachment to one's ingroups does not necessarily require
hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism …

Although the concept of justification has played a significant role in many social
psychological theories, its presence in recent examinations of stereotyping has been …

Despite impressive gains in the spread of quasi-democratic social practices and respect for
human rights witnessed in the past hundred years (eg, Pinker, 2011), intergroup …

This article examines how power influences behavior. Elevated power is associated with
increased rewards and freedom and thereby activates approach-related tendencies …