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Prejudice: ideology and personality associations

The aim of this research is to verify if there is a correlation among prejudice, personality and ideology. The sample was composed by 47 first-year Business Administration students, and 92 Psychology ones, all of them from one university of São Paulo. The F scale, a politic position measure and three other scales (prejudice manifestations, narcissistic traits of personality, and rational technology ideology) were used. Significant correlation was observed among all variables, especially between F scale, rational technology ideology and prejudice manifestations. In this way, ideology and personality are relevant variables in the prejudice determination.

rational technology ideology; narcissism; narcissistc personality; prejudice


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