You're inferior and not worth our concern: The interface between empathy and social dominance orientation

Journal of Personality

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 313-323

  Sidanius, Jim ^a   Kteily, Nour ^a   Sheehy Skeffington, Jennifer ^a   Ho, Arnold K ^b   Sibley, Chris ^c   Duriez, Bart ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dual Process Model; Empathy; Social Dominance Orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877817842     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12008     Document Type: Article

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