Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Bias: The Legitimation of Favoritism for High-Status Groups

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Conservative Ideology and Ambivalent Sexism (2006, background): “Levin et al. (2002) found that SDO was positively related to bias in favor of high-status groups when one was a member of such a group.”
Why do citizens want to keep refugees out? Threats, fairness and hostile norms in the treatment of asylum seekers (2007, background): “Consistent with past research linking social dominance orientation to hostility towards low power minorities (e.g. Levin et al., 2002; Sidanius, 1993), it was observed that those who embraced hierarchical rather than egalitarian social structures were disproportionately likely, one month later, to…”
Psychological perspectives on legitimacy and legitimation. (2006, background): “And Levin et al. (2002) show that among low-status group members, ideologies justifying inequality are linked to favoring the high-status group only when status differences are viewed as legitimate.”