Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?
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Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact.
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of con...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Directions in Psychological Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0963-7214,1467-8721
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414549750