Testing Hypotheses about Prejudice

Autor: Charles T. O'Reilly
Rok vydání: 1957
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Zdroj: Psychological Reports. 3:301-307
ISSN: 1558-691X
0033-2941
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1957.3.3.301
Popis: Replication of prior research can be an integral part of the testing of hypotheses in the social sciences. This paper reports some of the results of testing certain hypotheses about the relationship between prejudice and personality. The hypotheses, chosen from a large number of similar ones which have been advanced in recent years as explanations of prejudiced attitudes, are as follows: (a ) that feeling victimized as a member of a minority tends to be associated with greater prejudice; ( b ) that Ss with a "jungle philosophy" of life tend to be more prejudiced; (c) that "authoritarian submissiveness" is related to prejudice; (d ) that fear of fraud is related to prejudice; and ( e ) that "mirroring" parental attitudes is related to prejudice.
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