Group identification predicts negative attitudes toward outsiders

Evidence

John Duckitt (1989) has proposed that right-wing authoritarianism is based on a need to identify with important groups. In 1990 he sent me a scale that he thought might measure his construct (Exhibit 3.1). Lincluded these twentytwo items, joyously balanced against yea-saying, in a booklet administered to 422 Manitoba students in the fall of 1990. Their mean interitem correlation was .15, producing an alpha of .81. Summed scores connected . with the RWA Scale (which was in the right direction) and correlated a little better with attitudes toward Indians, Pakistanis, and Quebecois than the RWA Scale Exhibit 3. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1060

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negative stereotypes both accompany intergroup threats and independently predict outgroup attitudes — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 127; Ingroup identification strength moderates whether group-level or individual-level threats drive attitudes. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 151