Islamophobia correlates positively with religiosity and negatively with openness

Evidence

As predicted, the correlation between the I-AB subscale and the I-CG subscale (r .66, p .001) was significantly stronger, t(246) 3.50, p . (see Steiger, 1980) than the correlations between the I-AB and the other instruments, including the next largest correlate, MR (r .49). Consistent with expectations related to construct validity, religion, MR, and RF were all positively correlated with the IS, whereas agreeableness and openness to experience were negatively correlated with the IS. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 62

Categorization

• SHARE: The tidy personality signature — openness and agreeableness down, religiosity up — is a nugget for someone working on personality correlates of prejudice.