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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, James H. Sidanius, known as Jim Sidanius was an American psychologist and academic. He served as John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He won the 2006 Harold Lasswell Award for "Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the Field of Political Psychology" from the International Society of Political Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2013 Career Contribution Award. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. The Society of Experimental Social Psychology awarded Sidanius the Scientific Impact Award in 2019.

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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (1999) (4142)
Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. (1994) (4080)
Social dominance theory and the dynamics of intergroup relations: Taking stock and looking forward (2006) (830)
The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale. (2015) (598)
Racism, conservatism, affirmative action, and intellectual sophistication : A matter of principled conservatism or group dominance ? (1996) (535)
Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method (2004) (497)
The Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Friendships on Ethnic Attitudes in College: A Longitudinal Study (2003) (445)
Social Dominance Orientation and the Political Psychology of Gender: A Case of Invariance? (1994) (444)
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America (2002) (425)
The psychology of group conflict and the dynamics of oppression: A social dominance perspective. (1993) (407)
The Interface Between Ethnic and National Attachment: Ethnic Pluralism or Ethnic Dominance? (1997) (380)
Social Dominance Orientation (2012) (373)
Perceiving personal discrimination: the role of group status and legitimizing ideology. (2002) (361)
The gender gap: differences in political attitudes and social dominance orientation. (1997) (281)
The effect of university roommate contact on ethnic attitudes and behavior (2005) (268)
We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways (2008) (263)
The inevitability of oppression and the dynamics of social dominance. (1993) (256)
Social dominance orientation, anti-egalitarianism and the political psychology of gender: An extension and cross-cultural replication. (2000) (256)
Prejudice at the nexus of race and gender: an outgroup male target hypothesis. (2010) (252)
In-Group Identification, Social Dominance Orientation, and Differential Intergroup Social Allocation (1994) (248)
Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality Across Cultures (2000) (244)
The gender gap in occupational role attainment: a social dominance approach. (1997) (229)
Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: the antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action. (2002) (223)
Ethnic Identity, Legitimizing Ideologies, and Social Status: A Matter of Ideological Asymmetry (1998) (213)
Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. (2011) (208)
Social Dominance Orientation, Hierarchy Attenuators and Hierarchy Enhancers: Social Dominance Theory and the Criminal Justice System (1994) (198)
A Comparison of Symbolic Racism Theory and Social Dominance Theory as Explanations for Racial Policy Attitudes (1992) (197)
Why Men (and Women) Do and Don’t Rebel (2012) (195)
Ethnic enclaves and the dynamics of social identity on the college campus: the good, the bad, and the ugly. (2004) (195)
Social Dominance and Social Identity in the United States and Israel: Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Derogation? (1999) (178)
Diversity policy, social dominance, and intergroup relations: predicting prejudice in changing social and political contexts. (2013) (175)
The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus (2008) (168)
Legitimizing ideologies: The social dominance approach. (2001) (161)
Social Dominance: From There to Here: Theoretical Background (1999) (159)
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice (2012) (156)
Consensual racism and career track: Some implications of social dominance theory. (1991) (149)
Social Dominance Theory: A New Synthesis (2004) (148)
Gender, Ethnic Status, and Ideological Asymmetry (1994) (147)
Cognitive functioning and sociopolitical ideology revisited (1985) (146)
The Interface Between Ethnic and Social System Attachment: The Differential Effects of Hierarchy‐Enhancing and Hierarchy‐Attenuating Environments (1998) (141)
Social dominance orientation: Cause or 'mere effect'? Evidence for SDO as a causal predictor of prejudice and discrimination against ethnic and racial outgroups (2011) (139)
Ethnic Minority‐Majority Asymmetry in National Attitudes around the World: A Multilevel Analysis (2010) (137)
You're inferior and not worth our concern: the interface between empathy and social dominance orientation. (2013) (135)
Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Bias: The Legitimation of Favoritism for High-Status Groups (2002) (133)
Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarianism, and Support for Intergroup Violence Between the Middle East and America (2005) (132)
Sophistication and the Antecedents of Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes: Racism, Ideology, and Affirmative Action in America (2002) (130)
Fear Extinction to an Out-Group Face (2009) (124)
Mother teresa meets Genghis Khan: The dialectics of hierarchy-enhancing and hierarchy-attenuating career choices (1996) (119)
Gender and Race Discrimination: The Interactive Nature of Disadvantage (2013) (118)
Person-Organization Congruence and the Maintenance of Group-Based Social Hierarchy: A Social Dominance Perspective (2005) (117)
Why Do White Americans Oppose Race-Targeted Policies? Clarifying the Impact of Symbolic Racism. (2009) (117)
Sex differences in sociopolitical attitudes: A replication and extension (1982) (101)
Political sophistication and political deviance: A structural equation examination of context theory. (1988) (98)
Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials (2013) (94)
CONSENSUAL SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION AND ITS CORRELATES WITHIN THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY (1996) (92)
Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains (2012) (91)
Social Hierarchy Maintenance and Assortment into Social Roles: A Social Dominance Perspective (2003) (90)
Political psychology: Key readings (2004) (89)
Racial identity and depression among African American women. (2010) (89)
Social Dominance Theory: Explorations in the Psychology of Oppression (2016) (89)
Social dominance theory and the dynamics of inequality: a reply to Schmitt, Branscombe, & Kappen and Wilson & Liu. (2003) (87)
Intolerance of ambiguity and socio-politico ideology: A multidimensional analysis (1978) (87)
Group Dominance and the Political Psychology of Gender: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (1995) (86)
Social Status and the Academic Achievement Gap: A Social Dominance Perspective (2001) (84)
Job Evaluation and Gender: The Case of University Faculty (1989) (78)
Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic (2001) (77)
The Positive and Negative Framing of Affirmative Action: A Group Dominance Perspective (2006) (76)
Ranking and Linking as a Function of Sex and Gender Role Attitudes (1991) (74)
Romance Across the Social Status Continuum (1998) (74)
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism (2018) (73)
Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective (2006) (73)
Social Dominance Orientation, Gender, and Increasing Educational Exposure1 (2006) (71)
Racism and Support of Free-Market Capitalism: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (1993) (69)
Sex‐related differences in socio‐political ideology (1980) (69)
A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition (2009) (65)
The Space between Us and Them: Perceptions of Status Differences (2009) (65)
Is group membership necessary for understanding generalized prejudice? A re-evaluation of why prejudices are interrelated. (2016) (63)
The Gulf War and the Rodney King Beating: Implications of the General Conservatism and Social Dominance Perspectives (1992) (61)
Communal and national identity in a multiethnic state: A comparison of three perspectives. (2001) (61)
The Three Rs of Academic Achievement: Reading, ’Riting, and Racism (1999) (61)
The interface between racism and sexism. (1993) (60)
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: SDO Asymmetrically Predicts Perceived Ethnic Victimization Among White and Latino Students Across Three Years (2010) (60)
Fear Extinction to an Out-Group Face: The Role of Target Gender (2009) (59)
Social Dominance and Social Identity in Lebanon: Implications for Support of Violence Against the West (2003) (56)
Preferences for group dominance track and mediate the effects of macro-level social inequality and violence across societies (2017) (56)
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System: Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Karma (2014) (55)
The trouble with assimilation: Social dominance and the emergence of hostility against immigrants (2010) (54)
U.S. Patriotism and Ideologies of Group Dominance: A Tale of Asymmetry (2002) (51)
Vladimir's Choice and the Distribution of Social Resources (2007) (46)
Political sophistication and political deviance: a matter of context (1989) (45)
Political Interest, Political Information Search, and Ideological Homogeneity as a Function of Sociopolitical Ideology: A Tale of Three Theories (1984) (44)
Social Hierarchy and the Death Penalty: A Social Dominance Perspective (1995) (43)
National and ethnic identity in the face of discrimination: ethnic minority and majority perspectives. (2015) (43)
Fear is readily associated with an out-group face in a minimal group context (2012) (42)
Sexual selection and the sexual and ethnic basis of social hierarchy. (1993) (42)
Peering into the jaws of the beast: The integrative dynamics of social identity, symbolic racism, and social dominance. (1999) (40)
Education and ideology: Basic aspects of education related to adolescents' sociopolitical attitudes. (1987) (38)
A dual process approach to understanding prejudice toward Americans in Lebanon: An extension to intergroup threat perceptions and emotions (2013) (37)
Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets (2019) (36)
“Not One of Us” (2014) (36)
Interpersonal leveling, independence, and self‐enhancement: a comparison between Denmark and the US, and a relational practice framework for cultural psychology (2007) (36)
Negotiating power: agenda ordering and the willingness to negotiate in asymmetric intergroup conflicts. (2013) (36)
Racial Democracy in the Americas (2004) (35)
Preserving positive identities: Public and private regard for one's ingroup and susceptibility to stereotype threat (2010) (34)
Arab Attributions for the Attack on America (2004) (34)
Cognitive functioning and socio‐political ideology A multidimensional and individualized analysis (1976) (34)
COMPARISONS OF SOCIO‐POLITICAL ATTITUDES BETWEEN TWO DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES (1979) (33)
CUBAN EXCEPTIONALISM: Group-based Hierarchy and the Dynamics of Patriotism in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba (2004) (33)
Developing a theory of gendered prejudice: An evolutionary and social dominance perspective (2011) (30)
Social Status: Construct and External Validity (1987) (29)
The Mistreatment of My People: Victimization by Proxy and Behavioral Intentions to Commit Violence Among Muslims in Denmark (2018) (28)
Perceived Academic Competence and Overall Job Evaluations: Students' Evaluations of African American and European American Professors (2009) (28)
Political socialization: A multivariate analysis of Swedish political attitude and preference data (1979) (27)
Ethnic and University Identities across the College Years: A Common In‐Group Identity Perspective (2009) (24)
The Duality of Attitude Structure: A Test of Kerlinger's Criterial Referents Theory Within Samples of Swedish and American Youth (1988) (24)
Political orientation and dominance: Are people on the political right more dominant? (2016) (24)
Intolerance of Ambiguity, Conservatism, and Racism-Whose Fantasy, Whose Reality?: A Reply to Ray (1988) (24)
Sex, Political Party Preference, And Higher-Order Dimensions of Sociopolitical Ideology (1983) (24)
Support for asymmetric violence among Arab populations: The clash of cultures, social identity, or counterdominance? (2016) (23)
When Domestic Politics and International Relations Intermesh: Subordinated Publics' Factional Support Within Layered Power Structures (2014) (23)
Cognitive Functioning and Socio-Politico Ideology: An Exploratory Study (1978) (23)
The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries (2020) (22)
Reactions to Crime as a Hierarchy Regulating Strategy: The Moderating Role of Social Dominance Orientation (2009) (21)
Hierarchical group relations, institutional terror, and the dynamics of the criminal justice system. (1998) (20)
The Theory of Gendered Prejudice: A Social Dominance and Intersectionalist Perspective (2018) (19)
Ethnic-related curricula and intergroup attitudes in college: Movement toward and away from the in-group (2008) (19)
Toward an Evolutionarily Informed Political Psychology (2013) (19)
Education and sociopolitical attitudes. (1985) (19)
The Interactive Nature of Sex and Race Discrimination: A Social Dominance Perspective. (2004) (18)
Sacrificing status for social harmony: Concealing relatively high status identities from one’s peers (2018) (18)
Social Status and Sociopolitical Ideology among Swedish Youth (1983) (17)
Personal values and intergroup outcomes of concern for group honor (2015) (17)
Ingroup and Outgroup Contact: A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Cross‐Ethnic Friendships, Dates, Roommate Relationships and Participation in Segregated Organizations (2009) (16)
Race and Sentence Severity (1988) (15)
Shaping the Development of Prejudice (2016) (14)
Social Dominance: Oppression and Its Psycho-Ideological Elements (1999) (14)
Political psychology: An introduction (2004) (14)
Individual differences in relational motives interact with the political context to produce terrorism and terrorism-support (2014) (13)
Sexual Violence during War : Explaining Variation (2004) (12)
Social Dominance Orientation-7 Scale (2011) (11)
Ethnicity and National Identity: A Comparison of Three Perspectives (2000) (11)
Muslims’ emotions toward Americans predict support for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda for threat-specific reasons (2016) (11)
Test of a Biological Model for Explaining Sex Differences in Sociopolitical Ideology (1982) (11)
The Gendered Nature of Family Structure and Group-Based Anti-Egalitarianism: A Cross-National Analysis (2003) (10)
Cognitive Differentiation and Socio-Politico Ideology: An Exploratory Study (1977) (10)
Dimensions of Social Dominance: Their Personality and Socio-political Correlates within a New Zealand Probability Sample (2015) (9)
Ideological constraint, political interest and gender: a Swedish‐American comparison (1987) (9)
POLITICAL PERCEPTION AND POLITICAL PREFERENCE. AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SWEDISH POLITICAL PARTIES. (1977) (9)
The political socialization determinants of higher order sociopolitical space: a swedish example (1986) (7)
Social attitudes and social status: A multivariate and multinational analysis (1989) (7)
Basic Values and Sociopolitical Ideology: A Comparison of Political Experts and Political Novices (1990) (7)
Political Perception Dimensions Based on Negative Similarities (1979) (6)
Ethnic and National Attachment in the Rainbow Nation: The Case of the Republic of South Africa (2018) (5)
Social Attitudes and Political Party Preference Among Swedish Youth (1987) (5)
Social Dominance: Social Dominance Theory: A New Synthesis (1999) (5)
Social Dominance Orientation Scale (SDO) 1993 (1995) (4)
Negative Similarities Versus Correlational Similarities. (1980) (4)
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification (2021) (4)
The Three Rs of Academic Achievement: Reading, ’Riting, and Racism (1999) (4)
Social dominance and the legitimation of inequality across cultures. (2000) (3)
The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric and hierarchically organized world (2020) (3)
Racial democracy in the Americas 1 “ Racial Democracy ” in the Americas : A Latin and US Comparison (2004) (3)
Education and Ideology: Basic Aspects (1987) (3)
Social Class Perception and Social Status Among Swedish Youth (1988) (3)
Distracted looking up: Priming low socioeconomic status impairs executive functions: (578192014-734) (2014) (3)
Social Dominance: From Viciousness to Viciousness: Theories of Intergroup Relations (1999) (2)
Social Dominance: “Let's Both Agree That You're Really Stupid”: The Power of Consensual Ideology (1999) (2)
Toward a construct validation of social class: (578272009-001) (1984) (2)
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation (2020) (2)
Social Dominance: The Psychology of Group Dominance: Social Dominance Orientation (1999) (2)
Protestant Work Ethic Scale for Americans (2013) (1)
Willingness to Protest Measure (2015) (1)
Race and Ideology in America: An Exploratory Study (1984) (1)
Social and ecological dominance orientations: Two sides of the same coin? Social and ecological dominance orientations predict decreased support for climate change mitigation policies (2020) (1)
Evaluative Perceptions of Swedish Politicians Across Time (1984) (1)
HEXACO-Personality and Prejudice in Three Countries (2016) (1)
Social Dominance: Sex and Power: The Intersecting Political Psychologies of Patriarchy and Arbitrary-Set Hierarchy (1999) (1)
7. The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective (2020) (1)
Social Dominance: Social Hierarchy and Asymmetrical Group Behavior (1999) (0)
Racial Attitudes Scale (RAS) 1991 (1995) (0)
Corrigendum: Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti-Muslim and anti-Western hostility in the age of terrorism: Living under threat (European Journal of Social Psychology, (2018), 48, 5, (567-584), 10.1002/ejsp.2362) (2019) (0)
Composite Index of Harshness (2015) (0)
Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities (2009) (0)
Tripartite Islamophobia Scale (2021) (0)
Editorial: Letter from the Editors (2012) (0)
Social Dominance: The Circle of Oppression: The Myriad Expressions of Institutional Discrimination (1999) (0)
Why Do They Hate Us So ? 1 Running Head : WHY DO THEY HATE US SO ? Why do they hate us so ? The Clash of Civilizations or the Politics of Dominance ? (2002) (0)
How Anti-Egalitarians Perceive Corporations and their Misdeeds (2019) (0)
Ideological Attitudes Measure (2014) (0)
Ingroup Identification Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
Cognitive Functioning and Socio-Politico Ideology: (574492009-001) (1975) (0)
SDO7 16-item Full Scale (2016) (0)
Social Dominance Theory and Power Comparison (2020) (0)
Perceived Clash of Values Measure (2017) (0)
Domineering Dispositions and Hierarchy Preferences: Differentiating the Impact of Traits and Social Values in Economic Games (2020) (0)
Social Dominance: Author Index (1999) (0)
Attractiveness of Hierarchy-Attenuating Careers Scale (2013) (0)
RWA, SDO and race: A study of prejudice in South Africa (2022) (0)
Experiment 3: Novel Groups Paradigm (2019) (0)
["Politics and Cognitive Style: A Rejoinder to Sidanius and Ward"] (1990) (0)
Social Dominance: Oppression as a Cooperative Game (1999) (0)
Arab Identification Measure (2017) (0)
Ingroup Identification Scale for Jewish-Arab Israelis (2013) (0)
SDO7 8-item Short Scale (2016) (0)
Political Attitudes Social Dominance Orientation : Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and (2011) (0)
Perceptions of Discrimination Scale (2013) (0)
Social Dominance: “They're Just Too Lazy to Work”: Discrimination in the Labor Market (1999) (0)
Unequal Distribution Scale (2014) (0)
Social Dominance: “You Stay in Your Part of Town, and I'll Stay in Mine”: Discrimination in the Housing and Retail Markets (1999) (0)
Study 1: SDO and Empathy/Counter-Empathy (2018) (0)
Social Dominance: Epilogue (1999) (0)
From There to Here: Theoretical Background (1999) (0)
Domineering Disposition Scale (2016) (0)
Muslims’ emotions toward Americans predict support for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda for threat-specific reasons (2015) (0)
Cognitive functioning and socio-politico ideology : studies in political-psychology (1976) (0)
Perceived American Domination of Arabs Measure (2017) (0)
Intergroup Threat Perceptions Measure (2014) (0)
Perceived System Permeability Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
Social class perception as a function of social status: (576332009-001) (1986) (0)
Group Competition Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
Study 2a: Racial Identification (2018) (0)
Contact with Ethnically Diverse Friends, Dates, and Roommates in College: (506102012-312) (2008) (0)
Me Versus Us: Concealing High Status Identities from Lower Status Peers (2015) (0)
Antecedents of Group Honor Concern Measure (2016) (0)
Race and criminal-justice attitudes – 1 Running Head : RACE AND CRIMINAL-JUSTICE ATTITUDES Race and Support for the Criminal Justice System : A Matter of Asymmetry (2002) (0)
Anti-egalitarians perceive corporations as less agentic and judge their misconduct less harshly (2021) (0)
Preference for Hierarchy is Related to the Motivation to Feel Less Empathy and More Schadenfreude Towards Low-Status People (2020) (0)
System Justification Measure (2014) (0)
Perceived Social System Legitimacy Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
Social Dominance: “They're Just Mentally and Physically Unfit”: Discrimination in Education and Health Care (1999) (0)
Social Dominance: References (1999) (0)
Social Dominance: Notes (1999) (0)
Beyond Demographics: The Psychological Underpinnings of Candidate Support in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (2017) (0)
Supplemental Material for Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When Gender Is Unspecified, the Default Is Men (2023) (0)
Ingroup Identification Scale for Ashkenazi-Mizrachi Israelis (2013) (0)
SOCIAL DOMINANCE THEORY: INTRODUCING PROFESSOR JIM SIDANIUS TO THE BRAZILIAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY COMMUNITY (2020) (0)
Support for Asymmetric Violence Measure (2017) (0)
Outgroup threats, ingroup compromises: Security over privacy in the aftermath of terrorist acts: (578192014-396) (2015) (0)
Social Dominance: “The More of Them' in Prison, the Better”: Institutional Terror, Social Control, and the Dynamics of the Criminal Justice System (1999) (0)
Sociopolitical Ideology Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
Conservatism Scale 1991 (1995) (0)
Perceived Legitimacy Scale (2013) (0)
External Attributions for Poverty in America Scale (2013) (0)
Legitimizing Myths Scale for Americans (2013) (0)
“Terrorism” against America: Civilizational Struggle, Perceived Domination, or Arab Identity? (2013) (0)
Generalized Prejudice toward Americans Measure (2014) (0)
Attractiveness of Hierarchy-Enhancing Careers Scale (2013) (0)

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