TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - How a terror attack affects right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and their relationship to torture attitudes
JO  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
A1  - Lindén, Magnus
A1  - Björklund, Fredrik
A1  - Bäckström, Martin
SP  - 547
EP  - 552
VL  - 59
IS  - 5
N2  - Self-reported level of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), the two facets of social dominance orientation (SDO-Dominance and SDO-Egalitarianism) and pro-torture attitudes were measured both in the immediate aftermath (terror salience, N = 152) of the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels and when terrorism was not salient. <br><br>RESULTS showed that RWA and pro-torture attitudes, but not SDO-Dominance and SDO-Egalitarianism, were significantly higher immediately after (non-salience, N = 140). Furthermore, RWA and SDO both predicted pro-torture attitudes more strongly under terror salience. We argue that the reason why RWA is higher under terror salience is a response to external threat, and that SDO-Dominance may be more clearly related to acceptance of torture and other human-rights violations, across context. Future research on the effects of terror-related events on sociopolitical and pro-torture attitudes should focus on person-situation interactions and also attempt to discriminate between trait and state aspects of authoritarianism.<br><br>© 2018 Scandinavian Psychological Associations and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-5564
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12463
ID  - ref1
ER  -