The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Highlights•Modern-day nationalism is characterised by a need for the external
recognition.•The need for recognition of in-group's worth is typical for collective …

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an
important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large …

Conspiracy theories related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have propagated
around the globe, leading the World Health Organization to declare the spread of …

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

Populists combine anti-elitism with a conviction that they hold a superior vision of what it
means to be a true citizen of their nation. We expected support for populism to be associated …

Gender studies have often been criticized for undermining family and religious values. In this
paper, we argue that these criticisms exhibit the characteristics of conspiracy theories. We …

This article proposes a new theoretical framework for the reviewed state‐of‐the‐art research
on collective narcissism—the belief that the ingroup's exceptionality is not sufficiently …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

The Leave campaign in the UK, which advocated exiting the European Union, emphasized
anxiety over immigration and the need to take control of the UK's borders. Citizens who …