Post by ck4829 on Feb 16, 2017 13:08:42 GMT
White women feel threatened by racist attitudes, and black and Latino men feel threatened by sexist attitudes, a psychological study has found.
Racist and sexist beliefs are seen as going hand in hand, so prejudiced statements directed at one stigmatised group are seen as a threat to people in different groups that typically experience prejudice, according to a study published in a paper in the journal Psychological Science. The results come from a series of five online and laboratory psychological experiments on more than 300 white, black and Latino men and white women in the US.
What racism and sexism have in common, the study authors say, is social dominance orientation. People who show either of these prejudices tend to have a personality trait where they show a preference for inequality if it leads to one group becoming dominant over another.
www.ibtimes.co.uk/racists-are-assumed-be-sexist-sexists-assumed-racist-1606260
Racist and sexist beliefs are seen as going hand in hand, so prejudiced statements directed at one stigmatised group are seen as a threat to people in different groups that typically experience prejudice, according to a study published in a paper in the journal Psychological Science. The results come from a series of five online and laboratory psychological experiments on more than 300 white, black and Latino men and white women in the US.
What racism and sexism have in common, the study authors say, is social dominance orientation. People who show either of these prejudices tend to have a personality trait where they show a preference for inequality if it leads to one group becoming dominant over another.
www.ibtimes.co.uk/racists-are-assumed-be-sexist-sexists-assumed-racist-1606260