French Validation of the Social Dominance Orientation Scale7 (SDO7) by Ho et al. (2015): A Two-Dimensional Approach to Social Inequality Support

Sylvain Ferreira; Armelle Nugier

doi:10.5334/irsp.1075

French Validation of the Social Dominance Orientation Scale7 (SDO7) by Ho et al. (2015): A Two-Dimensional Approach to Social Inequality Support

International Review of Social Psychology

Volume 39 (2026): Issue 1

By: Sylvain Ferreira and Armelle Nugier

Open Access

|Apr 2026

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