We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1455-1464

  Thomsen, Lotte ^a,b   Green, Eva G T ^c   Sidanius, Jim ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brain   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethnic aggression and persecution; Immigrant assimilation; Right wing authoritarianism; Social dominance orientation; Status boundary enforcement

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749097759     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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