Contextual threat and competition alter prejudice by shifting worldviews.

Evidence

These two worldviews should generally be relatively stable, reflecting the influence of individuals’ personality and socialization, but they should also be influenced by social situations. When the social world becomes markedly more dangerous and threatening, authoritarianism should be more prevalent, while situations characterized by inequality and competition over power and status should increase social dominance (see Glick, ch. 15 this volume). In both cases the effect ought to be mediated through change in individuals’ corresponding worldviews. This causal model of personality, social situation, worldview, ideological attitudes, and prejudice is summarized in figure 24.1. In it, the influence of personality, the social situation, and individuals’ worldviews on prejudice are indirect and mediated through their impact on the two ideological attitude dimensions of RWA and SDO. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2479

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Outgroup difference threatens the death-buffering worldview, driving defensive prejudice — Jeff Greenberg and Spee Kosloff, Terror Management Theory: Implications…, 29