The Relationship of Authoritarianism and Related Constructs to Attitudes Toward Homosexuality1

By B. Whitley, Sarah E. Lee. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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What matters most to prejudice: Big Five personality, Social Dominance Orientation, or Right‐Wing Authoritarianism? (2004, unknown): “…1999), homosexuals (Altemeyer, 1998; Lippa & Arad, 1999; McFarland, manuscript submitted for publication; Whitley, 1999; Whitley & Ægisdottir, 2000; Whitley & Lee, 2000), women (Altemeyer, 1998; McFarland, manuscript submitted for publication), Jews (McFarland et al., 1993), and immigrants in…”
The Effects of Contact on Sexual Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis (2009, unknown): “Further, a metaanalysis conducted by Whitley and Lee (2000) revealed that right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, dogmatism, and political conservatism were all associated with greater levels of sexual prejudice towards homosexuals.”
Construction of a short version of the right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) scale. (2005, background): “dently of each other influence various forms of prejudice (Altemeyer, 1998; Duckitt, 1993, 2000; Duckitt, Wagner, du Plessis, & Birum, 2002; Pratto et al., 1994; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Whitley, 1999; Whitley & Lee, 2000 ).”
Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief (2007, unknown): “…prejudice, intolerance, nationalism), as well as more overtly political variables like partisanship, policy preferences, and electoral choice (Altemeyer, 1998; Federico & Sidanius, 2002; McFarland, 2005; Peterson, Doty, & Winter, 1993; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Whitley, 1999; Whitley & Lee, 2000).”
Predictors of Homophobia in Female College Students (2000, background): “This supports a great deal of previous research with college women and men as well as the general population that the best predictor of homophobia is adherence to the type of rigid traditional attitudes exemplified by the Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Altemeyer, 1996; Haddock & Zanna, 1998; Whi”
Associations Between Religious Personality Dimensions and Implicit Homosexual Prejudice. (2006, background): “Across 27 statistical effects, as RWA increased attitudes toward gay men and lesbians became more negative (r =− 0.52; Whitley and Lee 2000 ).”
GROUPS AND MORALITY (2014, background): “…measures of authoritarianism tend to be associated most strongly with prejudice toward gay men, lesbians, and other sexual minorities, who are perceived widely as threats to moral standards (e.g., Cottrell & Neuberg, 2005; Whitley & Lee, 2000; for reviews, see Altemeyer, 1988; Duckitt, 2001).”
Gender-Role Variables and Attitudes Toward Homosexuality (2001, background): “See, for example, Herek and Capitanio (1996) and Whitley and Lee (2000) .”
The Gender Belief System, Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men (2000, background): “First, consistent with previous research ( Whitley & Lee, 2000 ), high social dominance orientation was associated with negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men.”
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. (2003, background): “Correlations between SDO scores and those of conventional measures of political and economic conservatism average approximately .30 in a variety of national and cultural contexts (Altemeyer, 1998; Pratto, 1999; Pratto et al., 1994; Sidanius et al., 1996; Whitley & Lee, 2000).”
Another Look at Moral Foundations Theory: Do Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Explain Liberal-Conservative Differences in “Moral” Intuitions? (2014, background): “These are clearly normative (and not merely descriptive) arguments, whether their proponents realize it or not (see also Jost, 2012, pp. 525–526; Nagel, 2012, p. 40).”
The person-based nature of prejudice: Individual difference predictors of intergroup negativity (2015, background): “Conservatism, particularly social–cultural conservatism, proves an especially strong predictor of anti-gay attitudes (Hodson, Costello, et al., 2013), with a meta-analytic r = .42 (Whitley & Lee, 2000; see our Table 2).”