“Third Rail” - Political conservatism increasingly linked to generalized prejudice in the United States. That means people who identified as more conservative were much more likely than in the past to express a broad range of prejudicial attitudes.

The THIRD RAIL of USA society is Russia direct manipulation of the entire population to be Hate Harder against people in the Americas and Love Russia values. Since the March 2013 !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee - the 'Third Rail" is the behavior of people under peer pressure, mass mind, mass man, the 5,000 alternate reality screen games the Kremlin working with Cambridge Analytica deployed on Reddit, Twitter, news comment sections, etc in March 2013. Americans can not admit that they lost a information war / executive function mental manipulation war and were defeated by Russia, lost their “hearts and minds” to hate people in the Americas. Even those who HATE Donald Trump and HATE MAGA are inside the 5,000 simulacra patterns since 2013 (mind-fuck payload being “Hate Harder” when in disagreement). Another major symptom is refusal to study mass mind psychology and to be demoralized and refuse to study information warfare methods and history.

RUSSIAN + CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA INFORMATION WARFARE EXPLOITS THIS MENTAL PROBLEM OF MOB MENTALITY: “Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955

Political conservatism increasingly linked to generalized prejudice in the United States

by Eric W. Dolan - April 20, 2025 - in Political Psychology, Racism and Discrimination

People who hold negative attitudes toward one marginalized group are increasingly likely to express prejudice toward others as well, according to a new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. The research shows that generalized prejudice in the United States has grown stronger and more politically aligned over the past two decades.

While previous research has shown that individual forms of prejudice often overlap, the assumption that this overlap—or “generalized prejudice”—is stable across time had not been formally tested. The authors wanted to investigate whether people’s attitudes toward different marginalized groups are becoming more consistent with one another and whether these patterns are increasingly tied to ideological identity.

“I’ve long had an interest in the topic of generalized prejudice, that is, the finding that specific prejudices (e.g., racism, sexism) correlate with each other. In other words, if you score relatively high in racism, then you likely score relatively high in sexism, homophobia, etc.,” said study author Gordon Hodson, a distinguished professor of psychology at Brock University.

“This topic is of particular interest because this robust finding strongly supports the notion that individual differences are relevant to understanding prejudice (which is contested in some theoretical camps; see Hodson & Dhont, 2015). But if you are prejudiced toward a range of unrelated groups, that tells us quite a bit about you as a person — that at least some of your prejudicial tendencies are due to your character.”

“It turns out that my PhD student Hanna Puffer is also interested in this topic! So we’ve been pursuing this topic together. We’re both interested in how prejudicial attitudes can generalize across groups, including as a function of intergroup contact (e.g., Puffer & Hodson, 2024).”

To explore this question, researchers analyzed nationally representative data from the American National Election Survey, covering five presidential election years between 2004 and 2020. The total sample included nearly 22,000 participants.

In each wave of the survey, participants rated their feelings toward four groups—Black people, illegal immigrants, gay people, and feminists—using a scale from 0 (extremely unfavorable) to 100 (extremely favorable). For analysis, the researchers reversed these scores so that higher values reflected greater prejudice. Participants also reported their political orientation on a 7-point scale ranging from “extremely liberal” to “extremely conservative.”

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