Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Prejudice 1 RIGHT-WING ...

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Prejudice 17SDO and Anti-gay PrejudiceAlthough I predicted no change in the correlation between SDO and anti-gayprejudice over time, I found instead a significant decrease, r = -.55, p < .05. As shown inFigure 2 and Table 5, the mean d decreased from .92 to .67 between 1995 to 2004 butdecreased trivially from .67 to .62 between the years 2004 and 2010.DiscussionAs predicted, the correlation between RWA and racial/ethnic prejudice decreasedbetween 1948 and 2008. However, this conclusion must be qualified by an upturn in thecorrelation in more recent years. In contrast, the correlation between RWA and anti-gayprejudice has increased between 1969 and 2008. Taken together, these findings providepartial support for the hypothesis that changing societal norms surrounding prejudicehave led to a decrease in the correlation between RWA and racial/ethnic prejudice.Further support for the hypothesis comes from the finding that the SDO-racial prejudicecorrelation has not significantly changed over the years although the correlation betweenSDO and anti-gay prejudice decreased between 1995 and 2009.RWA and PrejudiceRacial/ethnic prejudice. There are two noteworthy trends in the data regardingRWA and racial/ethnic prejudice. First there was a decline in the mean effect size frommean r = .53 in the 1945-1954 study cohort to mean r = .32 in the 1995-2004 cohort. Theother trend was the increase of the mean r to.43 in the 2005-2010 cohort. Although therewas also a slight increase in mean effect size for the 1965-1974 and 1975-1984 study