Social and competitive threat as situational factors moderating relationships between moral judgments and different components of authoritarian ideology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21621990
AutoresPiotr Radkiewicz (0000-0003-1877-9393, Institute of Psychology, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume41
Fascículo9
Páginas5883-5895
Data de publicação2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCurrent Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12144-020-01075-7
OpenAlexW3091666367
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas36

This paper presents research on the complexity of moral judgments underlying two components of authoritarian ideology: right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). Based on previous research, it was expected that people who were high on moral intuitions of Ingroup/loyalty and Authority/respect (Ethics of Community) should be high on RWA, whereas people who were high on moral intuitions of Care/harm and Fairness/reciprocity (Ethics of Autonomy) should be low on SDO. In more detailed hypotheses it was assumed that such general relationships would be moderated by situational factors - threat to social order and competitive threat, respectively. Two experimental studies were conducted: the first with manipulation of the threat to social order, and the second with manipulation of the competitive threat ( N = 180 and 150, respectively). Both studies showed that Ethics of Community predicted clear increase in RWA, while the Ethics of Autonomy predicted considerable decrease in SDO. However positive relationships between Ingroup/loyalty and RWA as well as between Authority/respect and RWA were strongly reinforced by threat to social order, whereas the negative relationships between Care/harm and SDO as well as between Fairness/reciprocity and SDO diminished under situationally induced aggressive ‘Darwinian’ competition. The Ethics of Community appears as a moral basis for development of right-wing authoritarianism, and this relationship is especially strong when the social order is perceived as threatened. On the other hand, the Ethics of Autonomy can be seen as a moral basis for inhibition of social dominance orientation, but it loses the moral relevance in strongly competitive social environment

Authoritarianism · Autonomy · Democracy · Harm · Ideology · Ingroups and outgroups · Loyalty · Politics · Prosocial behavior · Situational ethics · Social dominance orientation · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology