APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Interactions between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Perceived Threat from the Outgroup

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cognitive

  • Alexis Jones
    Columbia College of SC
  • Aaron Wichman
    Western Kentucky University

Abstract

We assessed how right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) moderates perceived symbolic
and realistic threat from Muslims in the U.S. after describing a terror attack. The terror
attack description increased symbolic threat, and the higher one was in RWA, the
stronger the correlation between symbolic and realistic threat perceptions

Prejudice

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