Effects of Personality on Prejudice & Discrimination Flashcards
What are the Big 5 personality dimensions?
1) Extraversion
2) Neuroticism
3) Agreeableness
4) Conscientiousness
5) Openness to experience
Extraversion?
How outgoing and social a person is.
Neuroticism?
Trait disposition to experience anger, anxiety, worry, fear, envy, depression, frustration, loneliness that is more than normal.
Agreeableness?
Kind, sympathetic, co-operative, warm & considerate.
Conscientiousness?
Tendency to be responsible, organised, hard-working, goal dedicated, and adhere to norms and roles.
Openness to experience?
- motivated to seek new experiences
- engage in self-examination
- attentive to feelings
- preference for variety
- intellectual curiosity
- challenge authority
What kind of relationship does openness to experience have with prejudice?
A negative relationship.
The more open one is to experience, the…
… less likely they are to be prejudiced.
What kind of relationship does agreeableness have with prejudice?
A negative relationship.
Conscientiousness links to…
… right-wing authoritarianism and prejudice.
What is right-wing authoritarianism?
A personality type that describes someone who is naturally submissive to their authority figures, acts aggressively in the name of social authorities, and is conformist in thought and behaviour.
What do recent studies suggest about the link between personality and prejudice?
It doesn’t link directly with prejudice.
Personalities underpin…
… ideological attitudes
What is social dominance orientation?
A dispositional tendency to accept circumstances that sustain social inequalities, and to have a general preference for hierarchical social structures.
Those who believe in social hierarchy are more likely than others to be prejudiced towards ‘low-status’ groups and they want their own group to dominate.
What is this?
social dominance orientation
