Abstract
Social attitudes and beliefs can have a powerful influence on how one interprets, and respond to, everyday events. Employing a factor analytic approach, Saucier (2000, 2013) has recently developed a taxonomy of social attitudes and beliefs which contains five dimensions. He labeled these dimensions ‘isms’ because words describing these attitudes and beliefs tend to end in ‘ism’ (e.g., fundamentalism, relativism, and materialism). The five dimensions of isms are: tradition-oriented religiousness, unmitigated self-interest, communal rationalism, subjective spirituality, and inequality-aversion. In this article we briefly discuss beliefs and attitudes more generally before discussing isms in detail. We then discuss the relationship of Big Five personality dimensions to isms and additional correlates of isms before providing a few areas for future research directions. The article concludes by making an argument that isms are a potentially very important, but highly under-researched, aspect of human individual differences.
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