Perceived threat directly raises authoritarianism but not social 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

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Provides causal experimental evidence that connects to the earlier claims about how the social environment shapes authoritarian attitudes.

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• Societal-level authoritarianism rises and falls with social threat levels (similarity 0.82)
• Threat shifts supposedly stable ideological dispositions like authoritarianism (similarity 0.82)
• Modern prejudice research shows Allport was right that environment activates authoritarian fear (similarity 0.81)
• Authoritarian threat perception is socially learned rather than rooted in weak ego (similarity 0.81)
• Authoritarianism stems from a conformist personality reading the world as dangerous. (similarity 0.81)
• Authoritarianism arises from social learning about threat, not harsh parenting (similarity 0.80)