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Alain Van Hiel11 AND Ivan Mervielde1

The present study compares the predictive validity of the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) scale and various measures of authoritarianism, conservative beliefs, and political preferences. In accordance with previous studies, SDO and authoritarianism independently predicted conservative beliefs. Political preferences and extreme right-wing voting was best predicted by SDO. Unlike previous research, high positive correlations between SDO and the various authoritarianism scales were found. The relationship between SDO and authoritarianism is discussed."

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Values as predictors of environmental attitudes : Evidence for consistency across 14 countries
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SCHULTZ P. W. ; ZELEZNY L. ;
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Department of Psychology, California State University, San Marlos, CA, ETATS-UNIS
California State University, Fresno, CA, ETATS-UNIS
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A multinational study is reported on the relationship between values and attitudes. Environmental attitudes were measured using the revised New Environmental Paradigm (NEP: Dunlap et al., 1992) and Thompson and Barton's (1994) ecocentrism-anthropocentrism scales. Other measures included gender, SES, religion, and Schwartz's (1994) universal values scale. Survey data were obtained from college students in 14 countries. A sample of 2160 participants was obtained through university contacts in each country. Results found support for the distinction between different types of environmental attitudes. Regression analyses revealed a consistent pattern of findings across countries. Scores on the NEP scale and the ecocentrism scale were predicted by universalism (positively), power (negatively), and tradition (negatively). In contrast, anthropocentric concerns were significantly related to benevolence (negatively), power (positively), tradition (positively), and security (positively). Overall, these findings support the value-basis theory of environmental attitudes.
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Journal of environmental psychology (J. environ. psychol.) ISSN 0272-4944
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1999, vol. 19, no3, pp. 255-265 (29 ref.)"

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Author: Schultz P.W.1

Source: Journal of Social Issues, Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2000, pp. 391-406(16)

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In this article, I propose that concern for environmental problems is fundamentally linked to the degree to which people view themselves as part of the natural environment. Two studies are reported that test aspects of this theory. The first study describes the structure of people's concern for environmental problems. Results from a confirmatory factor analysis showed a clear three-factor structure, which I labeled egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric. A second study examined the effects of a perspective-taking manipulation on egoistic, social-altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns. Results showed that participants instructed to take the perspective of an animal being harmed by pollution scored significantly higher in biospheric environmental concerns than participants instructed to remain objective."

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Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis

Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis: "Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis
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Norgaard, Richard B
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Materialism, both as a vision of the good life and as a cosmological basis underlying epistemology and modern science, drives humanity's environmental crisis. The dominant thrust of the environmental movement has been simply to shift to a longer slower materialism. Understanding how materialism creates our environmental problems and limits our vision of the good life is a necessary step toward creating a different future. Understanding development as a process of coevolution between knowledge, technology, social organization, values, and nature provides an alternative cosmological and epistemological framing which both gives us perspective on materialism and suggests an alternative vision for the future. Copyright 1995 by Taylor and Francis Group"

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Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and personality: an analysis using the IPIP measure
Patrick C. L. Heaven *, Sandra Bucci
Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
email: Patrick C. L. Heaven (patrick_heaven@uow.edu.au)

*Correspondence to Patrick C. L. Heaven, Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

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Although both right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) have been found to predict racial and intergroup prejudice, previous research has suggested that RWA and SDO have quite distinct psychological features. We therefore examined the Big Five personality correlates of these two measures using facet scales from the International Personality Item Pool measure. Respondents were 220 university undergraduate volunteers. Significant sex differences were noted with respect to SDO and some facet scales. A series of analyses supported the view that RWA and SDO are aligned with different personality traits, while the discussion centred on the psychological profile of authoritarians and dominators. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd."

Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality Across Cultures -- Pratto et al. 31 (3): 369 -- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality Across Cultures -- Pratto et al. 31 (3): 369 -- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology: "Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality Across Cultures
Felicia Pratto

University of Connecticut, pratto@psych.psy.uconn.edu

James H. Liu

Victoria University of Wellington

Shana Levin

Claremont-McKenna College

Jim Sidanius

University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Shih

Harvard University

Hagit Bachrach

San Francisco State University

Peter Hegarty

City University of New York College of Staten Island and Business Center

The authors tested three hypotheses from social dominance theory in four cultures: (a) that individual differences in social dominance orientation (SDO), or the preference for group-based inequality, can be reliably measured in societies that are group-based hegemonies; (b) that SDO correlates positively with attitudes supporting hegemonic groups and correlates negatively with attitudes supporting oppressed groups; and (c) that men are higher on SDO than women. For the most part, the results confirmed the hypotheses. SDO scales were internally reliable and were administered in English, Chinese, and Hebrew. SDO scores correlated with sexism, measured in culturally appropriate ways, in every culture, and with ethnic prejudice and other attitudes concerning the local hegemony except in China. Men were higher on SDO than women in most samples. Findings are discussed in terms of ideological and psychological facilitators of group dominance."

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Wiley InterScience: Journal: Abstract: "Does materialism predict racism? materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice"