Despite the well-documented implications of right-wing ideological
dispositions for human intergroup relations, surprisingly little is
understood about the implications for human–animal relations. We
investigate why right-wing ideologies – social dominance orientation
(SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) – positively predict
attitudes toward animal exploitation and meat consumption. Two survey
studies conducted in heterogeneous community samples (Study
1, N = 260; Study …
