title: Wolves in sheep's clothing: SDO asymmetrically predicts perceived ethnic victimization among white and Latino students across three years.
abstract: Dominant groups have claimed to be the targets of discrimination on several historical occasions during violent intergroup conflict and genocide.The authors argue that perceptions of ethnic victimization among members of dominant groups express social dominance motives and thus may be recruited for the enforcement of group hierarchy. They examine the antecedents of perceived ethnic victimization among dominants, following 561 college students over 3 years from freshman year to graduation year. Using longitudinal, cross-lagged structural equation modeling, the authors show that social dominance orientation (SDO) positively predicts perceived ethnic victimization among Whites but not among Latinos, whereas victimization does not predict SDO over time. In contrast, ethnic identity and victimization reciprocally predicted each other longitudinally with equal strength among White and Latino students. SDO is not merely a reflection of contextualized social identity concerns but a psychological, relational motivation that undergirds intergroup attitudes across extended periods of time and interacts with the context of group dominance.
authors.affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. lthomsen@fas.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Lotte
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: Eva G T
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Arnold K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Shana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van Laar
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinclair
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sidanius
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012930:Social Dominance; D044465:White People