Authoritarianism and social dominance are socialized, culturally varying belief systems.

Evidence

Further, rather than indicating individual psychopathology, current research reveals these individual differences to be socialized belief systems (Duckitt, this volume), suggesting that cultures (as well as individuals) differ on these dimensions and therefore in their proneness to scapegoating (Staub, 1989). As Duckitt (this volume) notes, people’s endorsement of authoritarianism and social dominance may increase when the ingroup is threatened (authoritarianism) or the status of the ingroup is diminished (social dominance), increasing attraction to and social consensus in scapegoating. … Thus, people who endorse these belief systems are likely to be prominent among the willing adherents of scapegoat movements (Staub, 1989). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1603

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Frankfurt School and prejudice-psychology thread—authoritarianism as socially learned vs. psychoanalytic personality-trait accounts.