Resumen

UNGARETTI, Joaquín; MULLER, Mariela  y  ETCHEZAHAR, Edgardo. The psychological study of prejudice: Contributions of authoritarianism and social dominance. Rev. Int. Investig. Cienc. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.12, n.1, pp.75-86. ISSN 2226-4000.  https://doi.org/10.18004/riics.2016.julio.75-86.

Prejudice defined as an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization, directed towards a group as a whole or to an individual as a member of it, has been considered widespread. In this sense, it has been shown that individuals who typically have high levels of prejudice towards a particular social group, usually also express high levels to others. One of the main research scale that have been developed for assessing the generalized prejudice has been the Affective Ratings Thermometer for Social Groups, which has a multifactorial structure composed of different prejudices against groups considered dangerous, derogated and dissidents. Several studies indicate that two personality traits, the right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, predict different forms of prejudice. While the right wing authoritarianism expresses a motivation to maintain the owns group order and security, being its counterpart prejudice against dangerous groups, social dominance reflects a motivation for dominance and superiority, whose correlate is prejudice towards derogated groups. In addition, due to the underlying motivations in both variables, they jointly predict prejudice to dissident groups, which in one hand represent a competition challenging the maintenance of social inequality, while on the other hand, threats the order, stability and social cohesion. The objective of this study was to analyze the different perspectives for studying the phenomenon of generalized prejudice.

Palabras clave : Prejudice; stereotypes; discrimination; authoritarianism; dominance.

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