James Sidanius
Biographic Data
| ID | 4004366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Sidanius |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Sidanius |
| SIGNATURE | SIDANIUS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct: Mixed Evidence for the Role of Threat and Mind Perception
Although people’s ideological beliefs are key to understanding how they make moral judgments, existing research has been silent on how such ideological beliefs drive their psychological perceptions of corporations and their responses to corporate misconduct. Across multiple studies we consistently found that people high in social dominance orientation (SDO) judge organizational transgressions less harshly. These results generalized across organiz…
Social Dominance Theory: Introducing Professor Jim Sidanius to the Brazilian Social Psychology Community
I had been chatting by e-mail with Professor Jim Sidanius (also known as James Sidanius) for about a year before we met in the US. In February 2018, I finally met
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism
In the article “Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti-Muslim and anti-Western hostility in the age of terrorism” (https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2362) (Obaidi, Kunst, Kteily, Thomsen, & Sidanius, 2018), published in Wiley Online Library on 25 March 2018 and in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 48: 567–584, an error has been identified in the affiliation section. The authors would like to add the missed affiliation for L…
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims in the Middle East. In Study 1, symbolic, but not realistic and terroristic threats, predicted non‐Muslim Norwegians' intentions to join anti‐Islamic movements. In Study 2, symbolic and realistic, but not terroristic threat, predi…
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System: Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Karma
This paper extends the social dominance perspective to the Indian context by examining the role of belief in Karma (sanchita) in the justification of the Indian caste system. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and the dual process model (Duckitt, 2001) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested four related hypotheses within a sample of 385 Indian university students. In particular we expected that social dominance orientat…
Negotiating power: Agenda ordering and the willingness to negotiate in asymmetric intergroup conflicts
In this research, we investigated how group power influences the way members of groups in asymmetrical conflict approach intergroup negotiations. Drawing on theories of negotiations and of intergroup power, we predicted that group power would interact with features of the proposed negotiating agenda to influence willingness to come to the table. Based on the negotiation literature, we focused on 2 types of sequential negotiation agendas: 1 beginn…
Racial identity and depression among African American women
This study examines direct, interactive, and indirect effects of racial identity and depression in a sample of 379 African American women. Results indicated that higher racial private and public regard were associated with lower depression. The relationship between private regard and depression was moderated by racial centrality, such that higher private regard was more strongly related to lower depression when women's race was a central part of …
Reactions to Crime as a Hierarchy Regulating Strategy: The Moderating Role of Social Dominance Orientation
The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus
1 online resource
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America
Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were in the 1970s, or has racism simply gone underground? Is racism something that is learned as children, or is it a result of certain social groups striving to maintain their privileged positions in society? In this text, political scientists, sociologists and psychologists explore the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches to the to…
The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective
Cognitive Functioning and Sociopolitical Ideology Revisited
extremism theory, and (c) context theory. The subjects consisted of 195 Swedish high school students from five different high schools in greater Stockholm. The results showed no index convergence for the concepts of cognitive complexity and cognitive flexibility although general construct validity was found for the cognitive assessments instruments used. The results also revealed that four dimensions of sociopolitical ideology (general conservati…
Cognitive Functioning and Sociopolitical Ideology Revisited
extremism theory, and (c) context theory. The subjects consisted of 195 Swedish high school students from five different high schools in greater Stockholm. The results showed no index convergence for the concepts of cognitive complexity and cognitive flexibility although general construct validity was found for the cognitive assessments instruments used. The results also revealed that four dimensions of sociopolitical ideology (general conservati…
Racial identity and depression among African American women
This study examines direct, interactive, and indirect effects of racial identity and depression in a sample of 379 African American women. Results indicated that higher racial private and public regard were associated with lower depression. The relationship between private regard and depression was moderated by racial centrality, such that higher private regard was more strongly related to lower depression when women's race was a central part of …
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims in the Middle East. In Study 1, symbolic, but not realistic and terroristic threats, predicted non‐Muslim Norwegians' intentions to join anti‐Islamic movements. In Study 2, symbolic and realistic, but not terroristic threat, predi…
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System: Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Karma
This paper extends the social dominance perspective to the Indian context by examining the role of belief in Karma (sanchita) in the justification of the Indian caste system. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and the dual process model (Duckitt, 2001) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested four related hypotheses within a sample of 385 Indian university students. In particular we expected that social dominance orientat…
Reactions to Crime as a Hierarchy Regulating Strategy: The Moderating Role of Social Dominance Orientation
Negotiating power: Agenda ordering and the willingness to negotiate in asymmetric intergroup conflicts
In this research, we investigated how group power influences the way members of groups in asymmetrical conflict approach intergroup negotiations. Drawing on theories of negotiations and of intergroup power, we predicted that group power would interact with features of the proposed negotiating agenda to influence willingness to come to the table. Based on the negotiation literature, we focused on 2 types of sequential negotiation agendas: 1 beginn…
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America
Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were in the 1970s, or has racism simply gone underground? Is racism something that is learned as children, or is it a result of certain social groups striving to maintain their privileged positions in society? In this text, political scientists, sociologists and psychologists explore the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches to the to…
Cognitive Functioning and Sociopolitical Ideology Revisited
extremism theory, and (c) context theory. The subjects consisted of 195 Swedish high school students from five different high schools in greater Stockholm. The results showed no index convergence for the concepts of cognitive complexity and cognitive flexibility although general construct validity was found for the cognitive assessments instruments used. The results also revealed that four dimensions of sociopolitical ideology (general conservati…
The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America
Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were in the 1970s, or has racism simply gone underground? Is racism something that is learned as children, or is it a result of certain social groups striving to maintain their privileged positions in society? In this text, political scientists, sociologists and psychologists explore the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches to the to…
The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus
1 online resource
Reactions to Crime as a Hierarchy Regulating Strategy: The Moderating Role of Social Dominance Orientation
Racial identity and depression among African American women
This study examines direct, interactive, and indirect effects of racial identity and depression in a sample of 379 African American women. Results indicated that higher racial private and public regard were associated with lower depression. The relationship between private regard and depression was moderated by racial centrality, such that higher private regard was more strongly related to lower depression when women's race was a central part of …
Negotiating power: Agenda ordering and the willingness to negotiate in asymmetric intergroup conflicts
In this research, we investigated how group power influences the way members of groups in asymmetrical conflict approach intergroup negotiations. Drawing on theories of negotiations and of intergroup power, we predicted that group power would interact with features of the proposed negotiating agenda to influence willingness to come to the table. Based on the negotiation literature, we focused on 2 types of sequential negotiation agendas: 1 beginn…
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System: Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Karma
This paper extends the social dominance perspective to the Indian context by examining the role of belief in Karma (sanchita) in the justification of the Indian caste system. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and the dual process model (Duckitt, 2001) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested four related hypotheses within a sample of 385 Indian university students. In particular we expected that social dominance orientat…
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims in the Middle East. In Study 1, symbolic, but not realistic and terroristic threats, predicted non‐Muslim Norwegians' intentions to join anti‐Islamic movements. In Study 2, symbolic and realistic, but not terroristic threat, predi…
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism
In the article “Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti-Muslim and anti-Western hostility in the age of terrorism” (https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2362) (Obaidi, Kunst, Kteily, Thomsen, & Sidanius, 2018), published in Wiley Online Library on 25 March 2018 and in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 48: 567–584, an error has been identified in the affiliation section. The authors would like to add the missed affiliation for L…
Social Dominance Theory: Introducing Professor Jim Sidanius to the Brazilian Social Psychology Community
I had been chatting by e-mail with Professor Jim Sidanius (also known as James Sidanius) for about a year before we met in the US. In February 2018, I finally met
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct: Mixed Evidence for the Role of Threat and Mind Perception
Although people’s ideological beliefs are key to understanding how they make moral judgments, existing research has been silent on how such ideological beliefs drive their psychological perceptions of corporations and their responses to corporate misconduct. Across multiple studies we consistently found that people high in social dominance orientation (SDO) judge organizational transgressions less harshly. These results generalized across organiz…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)