Alt-right Test
You are here because one of your friends linked you to their Alt-right Test result:
Take the TestYour Friend's Political Profiling Results Are:
Your friend's scores:
- Dark Triad 43%
- Moral Foundations Purity 33%
- Social Dominance 42%
- Authoritarianism 50%
- Nationalism 33%
- Hostile Sexism 72%
- Benevolent Sexism 67%
- Dehumanization 0%
- Express Bias 19%
- Inhibit Bias 83%
- Privilege: White, Male 44%
- Privilege: Non-white, Female 56%
- Political Correctness 44%
- Free Speech Opposition 50%
- Harassment 0%
- Offense/Trolling 0%
- Mainstream Media Trust 50%
- Alternative Media Trust 42%
Your friend is the closest to a conservative.
Explanation of Scales:
Dark Triad Traits
Traits related to narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, all of which are associated with callous and manipulative behavior (Jones & Paulhus, 2011).
Moral Foundations Purity
Experiencing emotions such as sanctity and piety towards phenomena one values and disgust towards behavior one does not approve of (Graham et al., 2009).
Social Dominance
How desirable one perceives group hierarchy to be and the belief that higher-status groups should dominate lower-status groups (Pratto et al., 1994).
Nationalism
The tendency to take pride in one’s nation over other nations and to identify with the people of one’s own nation over those of others (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, & Pratto, 1997).
Authoritarianism
An ideologically neutral measure of authoritarianism beliefs that allows comparison across conservative and left-liberal groups (Hetherington & Weiler, 2009).
Express Bias
An individual’s tendency to express bias against racial and religious outgroups (Forscher et al., 2015).
Inhibit Bias
An individual’s tendency to constrain bias against racial and religious outgroups (Forscher et al., 2015).
Benevolent Sexism
The belief that (certain special) women are precious and fragile, and should be protected and cherished by men (Glick & Fiske, 2001).
Hostile Sexism
The belief that women are incompetent, unintelligent, overly emotional, and/or sexually manipulative towards men (Glick & Fiske, 2001).
Dehumanization
The tendency to dehumanize outgroups, often by regarding them as less civilized and evolved than the members of one’s own group (Kteily, Bruneau, Waytz, & Cotterill, 2015).
Privilege: White, Male
The degree to which an individual perceives white people and males to be privileged in society (McIntosh 2018).
Privilege: Non-white, Female
The degree to which an individual perceives non-white people and females to be privileged in society (McIntosh 2018).
Political Correctness
The degree to which a person takes a favorable view of political correctness (Forscher & Kteily, 2019).
Free Speech Opposition
The degree to which a person would be okay with shutting down some of their opponent’s views, even if those views are formally protected by free speech (Forscher & Kteily, 2019).
Harassment
The tendency to harass opponents online by way of threats, name-calling, and/or revealing personal information about them (doxxing) (Duggan, 2014).
Offense/Trolling
The tendency to purposefully cause offense online by voicing offensive statements, sharing unsettling memes, and/or speaking in upsetting, coded language (Forscher & Kteily, 2019).
Mainstream Media Trust
A person’s degree of trust in the mainstream media (Forscher & Kteily, 2019).
Alternative Media Trust
A person’s degree of trust in alternative media (Forscher & Kteily, 2019).
References
- Duggan, M. (2014). Online Harassment. Retrieved from Pew Research Center website: http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/
- Forscher, P. S., Cox, W. T. L., Graetz, N., & Devine, P. G. (2015). The motivation to express prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(5), 791–812. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000030
- Forscher, P. S., & Kteily, N. (2019, June 7). A Psychological Profile of the Alt-Right. Retrieved from osf.io/xge8q. Preprint DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/c9uvw
- Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (2001). An ambivalent alliance: Hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality. American Psychologist, 56(2), 109– 118. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.56.2.109
- Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366–385. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021847
- Hetherington, M., & Weiler, J. D. (2009). Authoritarianism and polarization in American politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L. (2011). Differentiating the Dark Triad within the interpersonal circumplex. In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment, and therapeutic interventions (pp. 249–269). John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Kteily, N. S., Bruneau, E., Waytz, A., & Cotterill, S. (2015). The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(5), 901–931. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000048
- McIntosh, Peggy (2018). White privilege and male privilege. In Kimmel, Michael S. (ed.): Privilege A Reader. Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780429494802
- Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., Stallworth, L. M., & Malle, B. F. (1994). Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 741–763. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.67.4.741
- Sidanius, J., Feshbach, S., Levin, S., & Pratto, F. (1997). The Interface Between Ethnic and National Attachment: Ethnic Pluralism or Ethnic Dominance? The Public Opinion Quarterly, 61, 102–133.
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