Perceptions of Risk and The Buffering Hypothesis : The Role of Just Worlds Beliefs and Right-Wing Authoritarianism  

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Lambert, Alan J. ; Nguyen, Tina ; Burroughts, Thomas ; Burroughs, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 25 no. 6 (1999), page 643-656.
Topik: right-wing authoritarianism; right - wing authoritarianism; buffering hypothesis; perceptions of risk; world belief
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Although perceptions of risk have been studied extensively by both social and cognitive psychologists, relatively little work has focused on individual differences in these perceptions. Across two studies, the authors examined the relationship of perceive dirsk to just world beliefs (BWJ) and right - wing authoritarianis (RWA). Both studies showed that these two variables have interactive effects on perceived risk across a wide variety of different types of threats (e. g. getting hijacked, contracitng AIDS). Among high authoritarians, participants felt much less at risk if they believed in a just world than if they did not. Among low authoriatians, however, BJW and perceived risk were unrelated. Results are conceptualized in terms of a buffering hypothesis, which suggests that the extent to which self - protective variables (such as BJW) mediate risk are most pronounced among persons who view the world in threatening terms (i. e. high authoritarians). Implication of these findings for previous models of risk and personality development are discussed.

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