Social dominance orientation explains most prejudice and resolves prior RWA findings

Evidence

It has produced an extraordinary measure of prejudice. Indeed, with some help from the RWA scale this test explains most of the prejudice in the samples studied thus far. That amazes me. Also the SDO scale provides the best measure we have of the missing link in the domination-submission authoritarian social system—a link I never realized was missing. Furthermore, high SDOs certainly grip one, and merit study in their own right. And finally, social dominance orientation helps explain most of the confusing findings that have popped up thus far in research using the RWA Scale. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1072