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posted by janrinok on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-a-polite-discussion-ensued... dept.

Recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology by Thomas F. Pettigrew seeks to understand the psychological profile of Trump supporters:

The Trump movement is not singular within the United States (the Know Nothing movement in the 1850s, the Wallace movement in the 1960s, and the more recent Tea Party Movement). Moreover, other democracies have seen similar movements (e.g., Austria's Freedom Party, Belgium's Vlaams Blok, France's National Front, Germany's Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), and Britain's U.K. Independence Party (UKIP).

In virtually all these cases, the tinder especially involved male nativists and populists who were less educated than the general population. But this core was joined by other types of voters as well. Five highly interrelated characteristics stand out that are central to a social psychological analysis – authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, outgroup prejudice, the absence of intergroup contact and relative deprivation.No one factor describes Trump's supporters. But an array of factors – many of them reflecting five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary political event: authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @02:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @02:16AM (#606561)

    Instead of trying to unperson your opponents, why not allow a really radical notion into your noggins? There are people who disagree with you. They aren't shills, they aren't astroturf, they aren't insane, they aren't ignorant. They have read you literature, marinated in your mass media. They still don't agree with you. They don't want what you want, in fact they are convinced what you want can't exist and the attempt to attain it will destroy civilization.

    Just out of curiosity, how much are the Russians paying you to post this shit? Just asking.

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