Article Summary: Despite obvious suffering of individuals with AIDS, they have sometimes been the object of prejudice. In order to determine the personality characteristics of people who show prejudice against AIDS victims, investigators surveyed 177 male and female college students at a Midwestern university. Five survey items pertained to the respondents’ thinking about AIDS and were designed to measure prejudicial attitudes toward people with AIDS. In addition, sets of items were included to assess a respondent’s degree of authoritarianism, self-righteousness, sexual liberalism/conservatism, religiosity, and other personality characteristics. Among the significant positive correlations reported were those between measures of self-righteousness and prejudice toward AIDS victims between measures of authoritarianism and prejudice. The investigators indicated that people showing high degrees of prejudice toward AIDS victims were generally self-righteous and authoritarian males. It is not known whether these types of people also are poorly informed about the nature of AIDS. [note: A positive correlation indicates that, as the scores on one measure increase, the scores on the other measure also increase. In a negative correlation, as the scores on one measure, the scores on the other measure decrease, and vice versa. Quantitative indices correlations, called correlation coefficients, will be described in Unit 4. ]