An individual's social dominance orientation ranking, according to research Sidanius has conducted, derives from negative or positive responses to 16 statements.
James Sidanius, a professor of psychology at Harvard, working from a liberal perspective, uses a measure he calls "Social Dominance Orientation" to describe "the extent to which one desires that one's in-group dominate and be superior to out-groups".
Fernandes et al. (2007) tested the relationship between values and social dominance orientation (SDO).
We also determined whether one's nation of citizenship and individual differences in social dominance orientation would moderate the effects.
Two studies confirmed our assumptions, with social dominance orientation and trait interdependent self-construal serving as indicators of individuals' social orientation.
The results were compared to participants' scores on the Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Altemeyer, 1981) and the Social Dominance Orientation scale (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999).
Here we relate such factors to the two main clusters of social attitudes (Right-Wing Authoritarianism, RWA; and Social Dominance Orientation, SDO), and related cognitive constructs (Need for Cognition and Need for Closure).
This study was designed to assess which social values correlate significantly with endorsement of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO); two contemporary individual difference measures that predict prejudice.
