Right-Wing Authoritarians Aren't Very Funny: RWA, Personality, and Creative Humor Production

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Silvia ◽  
Alexander P. Christensen ◽  
Katherine N. Cotter
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Latent Variable Models ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Rasch Models ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
Negative Effect

Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has well-known links with humor appreciation, such as enjoying jokes that target deviant groups, but less is known about RWA and creative humor production—coming up with funny ideas oneself. A sample of 186 young adults completed a measure of RWA, the HEXACO-100, and 3 humor production tasks that involved writing funny cartoon captions, creating humorous definitions for quirky concepts, and completing joke stems with punchlines. The humor responses were scored by 8 raters and analyzed with many-facet Rasch models. Latent variable models found that RWA had a large, significant effect on humor production (β = -.47 [-.65, -.30], p < .001): responses created by people high in RWA were rated as much less funny. RWA’s negative effect on humor was smaller but still significant (β = -.25 [-.49, -.01], p = .044) after controlling for Openness to Experience (β = .39 [.20, .59], p < .001) and Conscientiousness (β = -.21 [-.41, -.02], p = .029). Taken together, the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.

scholarly journals POVEZANOST DESNIČARSKE AUTORITARNOSTI SA PETOFAKTORSKIM MODELIMA LIČNOSTI – METAANALIZAPOVEZANOST DESNIČARSKE AUTORITARNOSTI SA PETOFAKTORSKIM MODELIMA LIČNOSTI – METAANALIZA

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Nemanja Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Personality Models ◽  
Relationship Of

The meta-analytic study was aimed at determining the link between Right-wing Authoritarianism and Five-factor Personality models. The study included a total of 18 papers, with a total sample of 42,732 respondents from different populations. The analysis was conducted using method by Hunter and Schmidt. The results showed that Right-wing Authoritarianism achieves a negative correlation of low intensity with Neuroticism (r = -.03, p < .001), Extraversion (r = -.04, p < .001) and Agreeableness (r = -.06, p < .001). There is also some bias in publishing the results of the survey when it comes to these three personality traits. Conscientiousness is at a low positive correlation with Right-wing Authoritarianism (r = .13, p < .001), while the correlation of openness to experience with Right-wing Authoritarianism is close to the level of medium negative correlation (r = -.27, p < .001). It also found the moderator’s effecton the operationalization ofpersonality and population models when it comes to the relationship of authoritarianism and the trait of openness to experience, as well as the moderate effect of theoperationalization of right-wing authoritarianism on the correlation between neuroticism and right-wing authoritarianism. Key words: Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Five-Factor model, Big Five model, metaanalysis

Personality and Prejudice: Extension to the HEXACO Personality Model

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris G. Sibley ◽  
Jessica F. Harding ◽  
Ryan Perry ◽  
Frank Asbrock ◽  
John Duckitt
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Opposing Effects

We modelled the associations between the HEXACO dimensions of personality, Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right–Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and prejudice towards dangerous, derogated and dissident groups ( N = 454 undergraduates). Consistent with a Big–Five model, low Openness to Experience predicted RWA and therefore dangerous and dissident group prejudice. As predicted, low Emotionality (and Openness) rather than Agreeableness predicted SDO and therefore derogated and dissident group prejudice. Comparison with meta–analytic averages of Big–Five data supported expected similarities and differences in the association of Big–Five and HEXACO models of personality with ideology. Finally, Honesty–Humility simultaneously predicted increases in RWA but decreases in SDO, and thus opposing effects on prejudice. These opposing effects have gone unidentified in research employing Big–Five models of personality structure. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazar Akrami ◽  
Bo Ekehammar
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Factor Level ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
The Social

Extending previous research on the relation of Big-Five personality with right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, we examined the relationships of Big-Five facet scores rather than factor scores. The results (N = 332) of stepwise regression analyses showed that Openness to Experience was the only significant predictor of right-wing authoritarianism at the factor level, whereas Values and Ideas were significant predictors at the facet level. A similar analysis of social dominance orientation showed that Agreeableness and Openness to Experience contributed significantly to the prediction at the factor level, whereas Tender-Mindedness and Values were the best significant predictors at the facet level. The prediction based on facet scores was more accurate than the prediction based on factor scores. A random split of the sample confirmed the robustness of the findings. The results are discussed against the background of the personality and the social psychology approaches to explaining individual differences in prejudice.

Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature

2021 ◽  
pp. 089020702110140
Author(s):  
Reinout E. de Vries ◽  
Laura W. Wesseldijk ◽  
Annika K. Karinen ◽  
Patrick Jern ◽  
Joshua M. Tybur
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Environmental Correlations ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism

Existing work indicates that socio-political attitudes (or: ideology) are associated with personality, with Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism relating most strongly to honesty-humility and openness to experience, the two value-related domains of the HEXACO framework. Using a sample of 7067 twins and siblings of twins (including 1376 complete twin pairs), we examined the degree to which these relations arise from common genetic and environmental sources. Heritability estimates for the HEXACO personality and ideology variables ranged from .34 to .58. Environmental factors shared by twins reared together showed negligible effects on individual differences in personality and ideology. At the phenotypic level, Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism dimensions related most strongly to honesty-humility and openness to experience. These associations were mostly explained by genetic factors (48%–93%). Genetic correlations between openness to experience and the ideology scales ranged from –.29 to –.53; those between honesty-humility and the ideology scales ranged from –.31 to –.43. None of the environmental correlations exceeded | r| = .18. These results suggest that the relations between the two value-related domains of the HEXACO personality model and ideology are mostly genetic in nature, and that there is substantial overlap in the heritable components of personality and ideology.

Right-wing authoritarianism

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell F. Farnen
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism
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