Prejudiced people report more consistently favorable self-images than unprejudiced people

Evidence

We can begin with findings which suggest that the prejudiced person has a more consistently favorable impression of himself than does the unprejudiced person. The most directly relevant contrast in the coding categories is: “Self-glorification” as opposed to “Objective self-appraisal.” Prejudiced persons say such things as: “I have always tried to live according to His Ten Commandments” or “Think one of my best assets is my poise” or “I’ve always had a happy disposition, and I’ve always been honest with my family.” From unprejudiced subjects come such appraisals as: “I’m rather shy, don’t like competition” or “I don’t mean I am in love with my mother, but I have a dependency complex…married a woman older than myself.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 529

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to modern research on self-esteem and intergroup prejudice — a contentious finding that later twin studies and meta-analyses qualified substantially. — connects to: Tolerant people are happier than prejudiced people despite social penalties. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1818; The truth of self-reports cannot justify the prejudiced-unprejudiced contrast; probability assumptions underwrite it — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 535
• QUESTION: Is this reversed in modern research? Meta-analyses on narcissism and prejudice show the relationship is real but complex — worth checking how qualifications evolved.