Experimental threat raises authoritarianism by shifting worldview, not dominance.

Evidence

Four recent studies using structural equation modeling with latent variables showed excellent overall fit for the causal relationships proposed among the two personality, two worldview, two ideological attitude dimensions, with each other and with intergroup attitudes for large samples in New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA (Duckitt, 2001; Duckitt et al., 2002). An experiment showed that manipulating social threat (using scenarios) increased RWA, but not SDO, with the effect being entirely mediated through a change in social worldview towards an increased perception of the social world as dangerous and threatening (Duckitt & Fisher, 2003). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2480

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical support directly relevant to the vault’s prejudice-psychology and Allport reassessment thread.