group - based dominance. Generally

group - based dominance. Generally people
may prefer and endorse such hierarchies or
reject them, and scales measuring social
dominance orientation correlate robustly
across countries with a variety of kinds of
group prejudices (including sexism, sexual
orientation prejudice, racism, nationalism)
and with hierarchy - enhancing policies.
Social dominance orientation correlates
negatively with tolerance, egalitarianism,
univer salism, humanitarianism, and support
for hierarchy - attenuating policies such as
human rights (e.g. Pratto, Sidanius, & Levin,
2006 ). Compared with Americans who are
low on social dominance orientation, those
who are high on social dominance orientation
are more likely to make decisions that
protect US material interests than decisions
that protect the lives of noncombatants
(Pratto & Glasford, 2008 ). A number of
independent scholars have found that, in the
United States, people high on SDO supported
the 1991 US invasion of Iraq and
the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, spending on
the military and on a variety of weapons
systems, whereas people low on SDO
endorsed the use of the military for humanitarian
ends in the Yugoslavian civil war,
Afghanistan, and Iraq. In contrast, Lebanese
who are low on SDO oppose US counter -
terrorism policies because they view them
as a way to continue American world dominance
(Henry, Sidanius, Levin, & Pratto,
2005 )