SDO overlaps with glorification’s superiority facet but lacks its loyalty component

Evidence

One personality construct that has common but also distinct features with glorification is social dominance orientation (SDO; Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994). SDO refers to a person’s tendency to be in favor of group-based hierarchies and domination of some groups, considered superior, over other groups, considered inferior (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). Therefore, SDO is related to the degree with which people categorize groups on domains of status and power, and with which they favor social inequality. Without distinguishing different aspects of identification, SDO has been found to correlate positively with national identification (Pratto, Stallworth, & Conway-Lanz, 1998). We share the assumption made by Roccas et al. (2008) that this relation stems mainly from the superiority aspect of glorification. SDO, however, is about intergroup hierarchies in general and only indirectly entails the conviction that one’s ingroup is superior in both power and morality to other groups, whereas glorification builds on this superiority assumption, specifically comparing the ingroup versus outgroups as one of its cornerstones. Moreover, glorification includes the facet of loyalty and obedience to the ingroup as its second main component, whereas SDO does not. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the conceptual boundary between SDO and the glorification subscale, distinguishing the general hierarchy preference from ingroup-specific superiority-plus-loyalty.
• XREF: connects to: Glorification overlaps with but is not reducible to RWA or SDO. — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 93

Broader Connections

• Glorification overlaps with but is not reducible to RWA or SDO. #qualifies (0.82) — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 93