At the roots of Allport’s “prejudice-prone personality”: The impact of need for cognitive closure on prejudice towards different outgroups and the mediating role of binding moral foundations

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101885
• Publication Date: 2023-09-15T12:32:54Z
• Authors: Flavia Albarello; Federico Contu; Conrad Baldner; Michele Vecchione; Molly Ellenberg; Arie W. Kruglanski; Antonio Pierro
• Keywords: Ingroups and outgroups; Prejudice (legal term); Outgroup

In line with the seminal ideas on "prejudice-prone personality" provided by Allport (1954) in book The Nature of Prejudice, various studies have highlighted association between individuals' high need for cognitive closure (NCC) and prejudice towards outgroups. Nonetheless, evidence invariance different outgroups is still missing. Study 1 2 aimed to provide that individuals NCC display similar levels (i.e., people a race; religion; immigrants; who speak language; sexual orientation), expressed terms desired social distance. Besides this, based "group-centrism hypothesis" positing role groups as sources epistemic certainty stability knowledge, tackled process underlying relation testing mediational binding moral foundations. Evidence from both supported hypothesis same extent foundations mediate this relationship. Implications these findings reference interventions hinder will be discussed.