The study of authoritarianism and other personality theories of political attitudes is often
dismissed a priori as an illegitimate, value-laden attempt to correlate general psychological …

The study of emotion in politics has been active, especially as it relates to the personality of
political leaders and as an explanation for how people evaluate significant features around …

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been
exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own …

Easy access to equipment, software, and platforms to create, distribute, and provide access
to fake news stories has exacerbated the problem of fake news, making for a large number …

A meta-analysis by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003) suggested that existential
needs to reduce threat were associated with political conservatism. Nevertheless, some …

What are the psychological roots of support for populist parties or outfits such as the Tea
Party, the Dutch Party for Freedom or Germany's Left Party? Populist parties have as a …

Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time, a scholarly controversy
has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are …

Publisher Summary It is noted that prejudice is primarily studied as a group or socially
shared phenomenon. However, prejudice can also be viewed as an individual phenomenon …

Right‐Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) has been conceptualized and measured as a
unidimensional personality construct comprising the covariation of the three traits of …

There have been two broad approaches to how sociopolitical or ideological attitudes are
structured. The more traditional unidimensional approach sees ideological attitudes as …