Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation are the strongest individual-difference predictors of prejudice.

Evidence

The SDO scale powerfully predicts a range of sociopolitical and intergroup phenomena similar to those predicted by the RWA scale. Nevertheless, the two scales are relatively independent (nonsignificantly or only weakly correlated) and predict prejudice independently of each other (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; Pratto et al., 1994). Moreover, studies using a large number of individual-difference variables (i.e., personality, cognitive style, or social values and attitudes) to simultaneously predict prejudice found that both RWA and SDO were powerful predictors of prejudice when all other variables were controlled, and no other psychological variables were able to explain materially significant variance in generalized prejudice once RWA and SDO were controlled (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; McFarland & Adelson, 1996). Thus, RWA and SDO appear to be the strongest individual-difference predictors of prejudice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2459

The SDO scale powerfully predicts a range of sociopolitical and intergroup phenomena similar to those predicted by the RWA scale. Nevertheless, the two scales are relatively independent (nonsignificantly or only weakly correlated) and predict prejudice independently of each other (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; Pratto et al., 1994). Moreover, studies using a large number of individual-difference variables (i.e., personality, cognitive style, or social values and attitudes) to simultaneously predict prejudice found that both RWA and SDO were powerful predictors of prejudice when all other variables were controlled, and no other psychological variables were able to explain materially significant variance in generalized prejudice once RWA and SDO were controlled (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, 1998; McFarland & Adelson, 1996). Thus, RWA and SDO appear to be the strongest individual-difference predictors of prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2459

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the family of empirical findings on prejudice predictors in this volume’s earlier chapters and to Duckitt’s dual-process model of prejudice. — connects to: Right-wing authoritarianism predicts racial prejudice but religious fundamentalism does not once controls are applied. — Wade C. Rowatt and Lewis M. Franklin, Christian Orthodoxy, Religious…, 24
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2459; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2459