Personality and sociocultural factors in intergroup attitudes: a cross-national comparison

Abstract

little support to either pole. As further data are gathered with more refined research tools, it becomes increasingly apparent that the psychological and sociological correlates of prejudice are elaborately intertwined and that both are essential to provide an adequate theoretical framework for this complex phenomenon. Carrying this viewpoint further, Smith, Bruner, and White (38, pp. 41-44) have delineated three functions that attitudes