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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Fishscene on Thursday December 07 2017, @06:18PM (2 children)
1) Please post under your account name, like I did. Put your name to your words.
2) My point is clear: You can replace (group of people) with another group and suddenly it sounds like hatred, bigotry, racist, etc... It's an article NO ONE would have published if they didn't want the Internet to absolutely nuts. But because it's "Trump Supporters" and "male", it's suddenly ok? NO.
3) You don't call millions of people the kinds of things this article calls them and expect me NOT to call out the article and the submitter here on Soylent.
4) Republicans ARE NOT the answer to everything. Democrats ARE NOT the answer to everything. Same with any political group - Especially in the United States.
5) The article is more madness and opinion than Science. When was the last time Science belittled (group of people)? I'd wager the best examples were shortly followed by some of the worst acts in human history. I'm talking Slavery in the United States, Germany and the Jews around WWII, etc...
So no. I won't be complicit and sit by while madness like this article gets scattered around.
I know I am not God, because every time I pray to Him, it's because I'm not perfect and thankful for what He's done.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @07:17PM
Your search/replace does not work. Why? Because the details of those groups vary. This IS science, the fuzzy social science stuff. Not 100% accurate and reliable like electron counters and precision scales. Studying the factors behind populist movements seems like a very worthy pursuit, perhaps in the future we can recognize when dissatisfaction is growing and start fixing problems before they blow up.
Article is not madness, that is simply what it generated in you.
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Thursday December 07 2017, @08:27PM
Don't waste your virtual breath responding to trolls like that. What they hate most is being ignored, because it demonstrates how irrelevant they are.