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Dispositional approach to prejudice: Univariate and multivariate analysis of prejudice toward different groups, and its relationship with personality and intelligence

Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling toward members of other groups prior to, or not based on, actual experience. Different groups may be target of prejudices. However, a person who is anti-homosexual is likely to be anti-immigrant or anti-atheist, leading to the concept of generalized prejudice. The dispositional approach to prejudice situates individual dif-ferences in generalized prejudice into the frame of other dispositions. In this study, we examined relations between generalized prejudice, personality, and intelligence. In study 1 we developed measures of five prejudices: anti-fat, anti-mentally ill, anti-atheist, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay prejudices. We used those measures, together with a measure of the five factor model (BFI) and a measure of intelligence on the sample of 1, 050 Croatian youth. Data were analyzed in order to examine the plausibility of the concept of generalized prejudice and its relationship with personality and intelligence. The results support the concept of generalized prejudice, which is related to the intelligence and openness to experience. In study 2, we used measures of anti-atheist, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay prejudices, together with a measure of the six factor personality model (HEXACO) and intelligence on the sample of 836 twins. The aims were i) to replicate the plausibility of the generalized prejudice model and its relationship with personality and intelligence, ii) to perform univariate and multivariate behavioral genetic analyses of prejudices, and iv) to examine genetic/environmental overlap between generalized prejudice, personality, and intelligence. Results suggest that i) the generalized prejudice model is plausible both at the phenotypic and genetic level, ii) genetic, shared and non-shared environmental influences contribute to the individual differences in prejudice toward spe- cific targets and in the generalized prejudice as well, and iii) phenotypic overlap between generalized prejudice and openness and intelligence is both due to the overlap between genetic effects and environmental influences.

Prejudice ; Generalized prejudice ; Intelligence ; Personality

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