Situational threat raises authoritarianism while inequality raises social dominance

Evidence

These two worldviews should generally be relatively stable, reflecting the influence of individuals’ personality and socialization, but they should also be influenced by social situations. When the social world becomes markedly more dangerous and threatening, authoritarianism should be more prevalent, while situations characterized by inequality and competition over power and status should increase social dominance (see Glick, ch. 15 this volume). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2479

These two worldviews should generally be relatively stable, reflecting the influence of individuals’ personality and socialization, but they should also be influenced by social situations. When the social world becomes markedly more dangerous and threatening, authoritarianism should be more prevalent, while situations characterized by inequality and competition over power and status should increase social dominance (see Glick, ch. 15 this volume). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2479

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that dangerous social environments predict rises in authoritarianism resonates with broad historical observations — e.g., post-9/11 security clampdowns and crisis-era power consolidations. — connects to: Desperate times favored authoritarian spectacle over socialist equality — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 254; Authoritarianism operates independent of status-threat condition — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 73
• SEED: Article angle: real-world rises in authoritarian populism during periods of perceived threat may be systematically driven by worldview change, not merely by demagogic rhetoric.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2479; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2479