Authoritarianism and SDO are ideologies, not psychopathologies

Evidence

As Duckitt notes, neither authoritarianism nor the other most prominent individual difference measure of prejudice, social dominance orientation (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999), are related to indices of psychopathology (as Allport would have predicted); rather they are better conceived as individual differences in people’s belief in social and political attitudes or ideologies. Similarly, although Allport recognized the limitations of a scapegoat theory that focused on individuals’ lack of tolerance for frustration, he failed to recognize that scapegoat movements are often group-level phenomena, coordinated by adherence to a socially validated ideology (Glick). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 153

Categorization

• XREF: Key empirical correction to the vault’s Allport-based personality/prejudice claim.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 153