The Link between Personality and Prejudice

Some people are more susceptible to prejudices than others, depending on their personality traits. Such prejudices can be explained through personality psychology and social psychology. Theoretically, some Ekehammar & Akrami (2003), argue that there is a considerable connection between personality and prejudices. They conducted research to measure the link between the Big Five Personality and prejudices using the NEO-PI. The scores of the NEO-PI tool used involved seven scales of prejudices such as sexism, racism, prejudice, and so on. The correlation of the data analysis confirmed that there was a relationship between agreeableness and openness to reality.