Prejudiced personalities somatize distress while tolerant ones psychologize it

Evidence

Most of the coding categories were similar to categories used in other parts of the study. For example, prejudiced subjects were expected to be anti-intraceptive and extrapunitive. Several categories adapt traits of ordinary authoritarians to the special case of psychiatric patients. Prejudiced subjects were expected chiefly to complain of somatic or physical ailments such as dizziness, tremor, fast heartbeat, and the like, while unprejudiced subjects were expected to complain of such psychological ailments as anxiety, conflict, and depression. In addition, prejudiced subjects were expected to blame their troubles on particular unlucky external events—an illness, a divorce, a death. Unprejudiced subjects would be more likely to see their symptoms as having been present in milder form for years, possibly since childhood. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 522

Categorization

• SEED: Angles toward a piece on how political/psychological orientation shapes basic modes of symptom attribution and self-report.
• XREF: connects to: Both prejudiced and unprejudiced personalities pay a psychological price under poor conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1834