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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: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday December 07 2017, @09:30PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 07 2017, @09:30PM (#607003)

    Recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology

    Its important to point out that per

    https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-psychology-biased-republicans [newyorker.com]

    psychology is one of the most poltically biased fields out there, with a ratio of 14:1 or so in favor of D party.

    Also the field as a scientific whole was repeatedly abused in the past by the Russians, political opponents diagnosed as insane and involuntarily committed for "treatment", etc, all of which is coming soon to the USA.

    Its surprising given the solidarity and groupthink in the field, that the article description of Trump supporters was not even more unflattering.

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