APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Interactions between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Perceived Threat from the Outgroup
- 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