Early Life and Educational Background
John Duckitt was born in 1946 in a small town in the rural Western Cape of South Africa. He obtained a BA majoring in Psychology from the University of Cape Town in 1969 and later an MA qualifying as Clinical Psychologist from the University of Natal in 1980. His interest in the psychology of racism and authoritarianism then lead him to complete a research PhD in Social Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1980.
Professional Career
After obtaining his BA in 1969, John Duckitt spent 5 years immersed in radical politics from which he emerged disillusioned but with an interest in understanding politics and its darker manifestations scientifically. His first academic appointment was as lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. While doing the research for his PhD, he was employed as a researcher in the Institute for Sociological and Demographic Research at the South African Human Sciences...
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Duckitt, J. (1989). Authoritarianism and group identification: A new view of an old construct. Political Psychology, 10(1), 63–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/3791588.
Duckitt, J. (1992a). Psychology and prejudice: A historical analysis and integrative framework. American Psychologist, 47, 1182–1193.
Duckitt, J. (1992b). The social psychology of prejudice. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Duckitt, J. (2001). A cognitive-motivational theory of ideology and prejudice. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 33, pp. 41–113). San Diego: Academic.
Duckitt, J. (2006). Differential effects of right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation on outgroup attitudes and their mediation by threat from and competitiveness to outgroups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 684–696. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167205284282.
Duckitt, J. (2010). Prejudice and discrimination: Historical overview. In J. Dovidio, M. Hewstone, P. Glick, & V. Esses (Eds.), Sage handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination (pp. 29–44). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Duckitt, J., & Mphuthing, T. (1998). Group identification and intergroup attitudes: A longitudinal analysis in South Africa. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 134, 735–742.
Duckitt, J., & Sibley, C. (2007). Right wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and the dimensions of generalized prejudice. European Journal of Personality, 21, 113–130. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.614.
Duckitt, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2017). The dual process motivational model of prejudice. In C. G. Sibley & F. K. Barlow (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of prejudice (pp. 188–221). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Duckitt, J., Wagner, C., du Plessis, I., & Birum, I. (2002). The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 75–93. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.83.1.75.
Duckitt, J., Callaghan, J., & Wagner, C. (2005). Group identification and outgroup attitudes in four South African ethnic groups: A multidimensional approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 633–646. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204271576.
Duckitt, J., Bizumic, B., Krauss, S., & Heled, E. (2010). A tripartite approach to right wing authoritarianism: The authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism model. Political Psychology, 31, 685–715. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00781.x.
Sibley, C. G., & Duckitt, J. (2008). Personality and prejudice: A meta-analysis and theoretical review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 248–279. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868308319226.
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Duckitt, J. (2019). Duckitt, John. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_166-1
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