Antecedents and consequences of preferences for hierarchy in early childhood.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: = 1.58, 116 boys, 183 girls, 133 White, 47 Black, 24 Asian, 11 Hispanic/Latine, one Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 32 multiracial, 66 unreported) self-reported levels of SDO are associated with less desire to rectify inequality, lower likelihood to believe claims of inequality from low-status groups, and less sympathy for outgroup suffering. We also examine the role of group status and status essentialism in shaping SDO, finding some support that group status and status essentialism jointly influence self-reported SDO. These data also suggest that SDO and ingroup bias are different processes and highlight the utility of taking a developmental perspective to discuss how social dominance theory and social identity theory may be both conceptually and empirically distinguishable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001861
Institutions: Haverford College, University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415962012