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Title: | Attitudes to the Iraq war and mandatory detention of asylum seekers: Associations with authoritarianism, social dominance, and mortality salience | Contributor(s): | Lyall, Heather C (author); Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | DOI: | 10.1080/00049530601148421 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3571 | Abstract: | Attitudes to the Iraq war and mandatory detention of asylum seekers were investigated for relationships with right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), and for mortality salience effects predicted by terror management theory. Participants were 238 men and women, 18 - 65 years old, mainly Australian public servants who completed an attitudes survey. The survey allowed for a random allocation to one of four mortality salience manipulations: thoughts about death, thoughts about a terrorist attack, thoughts about voting, and no intervention. Support for Australia's involvement in the Iraq war and mandatory detention of asylum seekers was related to higher RWA and SDO, and lower levels of education but there was no statistically significant effect of mortality salience. The results have implications for understanding the value bases of social and political attitudes and for future investigations in this area. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Journal of Psychology, 59(2), p. 70-77 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1742-9536 0004-9530 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170113 Social and Community Psychology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940111 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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