Authoritarian prejudice springs from fear while dominance prejudice springs from appetite

Evidence

Rightwing authoritarians, who do not score high on PP-MAD, seem to be highly prejudiced mainly because they were raised to travel in tight, ethnocentric circles; and they fear that authority and conventions are crumbling so quickly that civilization will collapse and they will be eaten in the resulting jungle. In contrast, high SDOs already see life as “dog eat dog” and—compared with most people—are determined to do the eating. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1016

Categorization

• XREF: The fear-driven vs. appetite-driven division gives the reader two distinct psychological motors that could drive (or fail to drive) conviction in group-based hierarchy claims—useful for separating which subjects can inhabit hierarchy claims strategically versus which genuinely need them as psychological armor. — connects to: Fearfulness and threat orientation, not repressed aggression, drive authoritarianism — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2487; Authoritarian prejudice stems from fear not displaced aggression according to Allport; Men’s prejudice is approach-driven toward dominance while women’s is avoidance-driven (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian prejudice stems from fear not displaced aggression according to Allport #corroborates (0.85)
• Fearfulness and threat orientation, not repressed aggression, drive authoritarianism #corroborates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2487
• Men’s prejudice is approach-driven toward dominance while women’s is avoidance-driven #expands (0.75)
• Social dominators are more prejudiced but less behaviorally aggressive than authoritarians #corroborates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1051