Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence

By Johannes Ullrich, J. Cohrs. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “Ullrich & Cohrs (2007) showed in several experiments that increasing the salience of terrorism led participants to score more highly on a measure of system justification, further strengthening the case that conservatism serves system-justifying ends (see also Jost et al. 2008b).”
How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups: A terror management account (2009, background): “One study conducted more direct tests of the effects of terrorism news reports, but could not establish effects on death thought accessibility (Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (2009, background): “…upheavals, terrorist attacks) often precipitate rightward political shifts, presumably because conservative, right-wing opinions typically resonate with heightened needs to manage uncertainty and threat (Doty, Peterson, & Winter, 1991; Sales, 1972, 1973; McCann, 1997; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
Working for the System: Motivated Defense of Meritocratic Beliefs (2011, background): “…this defensive tendency should increase when system justifi cation motivation is high rather than low (e.g., after the legitimacy of the social system is challenged; Kay, Jost, & Young, 2005; Napier, Mandisodza, Andersen, & Jost, 2006; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007; see Jost et al., 2010, for a review).”
Shared Reality, System Justification, and the Relational Basis of Ideological Beliefs (2008, background): “…people defend and bolster the legitimacy of the societal status quo following exposure to various manipulations of system threat, including exposure to passages highlighting crises of legitimacy or stability in society (e.g., Jost & Hunyady, 2002; Kay, Jost, & Young, 2005; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives (2009, result): “…toward conservative political and social positions (e.g., Bonanno & Jost, 2006; Echebarria-Echabe & Fernández-Guede, 2006; Florian, Mikulincer, & Hirschberger, 2001; McGregor, Nail, Marigold, & Kang, 2005, Study 3; McGregor, Zanna, Holmes, & Spencer, 2001; Sales, 1972; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
On Social Stability and Social Change (2011, background): “Other public opinion surveys (Willer, 2004) and controlled laboratory studies (Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007) have also demonstrated that reminders of terrorism, such as government terror warnings, increase system-justifying processes.”
Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship (2014, background): “…, Kosloff , & Landau , 2013 ; Nail & McGregor , 2009 ; Nail , McGregor , Drinkwater , Steele , & Thompson , 2009 ; Thorisdottir & Jost , 2011 ; Ullrich & Cohrs , 2007 ) ; 7 ) In terms of " Big Five " personality characteristics , openness to new experiences is positively associated with…”
Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates (2021, background): “No items needed to be excluded because of high inter-item correlations (r > 0.80, recommendations by Tabachnick and Fidell (2013)).”
The Politics of Fear: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in Existential Motivation? (2017, unknown): “…& Fernández-Guede, 2006; Economou & Kollias, 2015; Gailliot, Schmeichel, & Baumeister, 2006; McCann, 2014; Nail, McGregor, Drinkwater, Steele, & Thompson, 2009; Schüller, 2015; Thórisdóttir & Jost, 2011; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007; Van de Vyver, Houston, Abrams, & Vasiljevic, 2016; Willer, 2004).”
Conservative Shift among Liberals and Conservatives Following 9/11/01 (2009, unknown): “…threat itself (Bonanno & Jost, 2006; EchebarriaEchabe & Fernández-Guede, 2006; Jost et al., 2004; Lambert et al., 2009; Landau et al., 2004; McGregor et al., 2005; Nail et al., in press; Thorisdottir & Jost, 2009; Rosenblatt et al., 1989; Sales, 1972; Sales & Friend, 1973 Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”
A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications (2018, background): “…& Jost, 2006; Echebarria-Echabe & Fern andez-Guede, 2006; Economou & Kollias, 2015; Gailliot, Schmeichel, &Baumeister, 2006;Nail,McGregor,Drinkwater, Steele, &Thompson, 2009; Sch€uller, 2015; Thorisdottir & Jost, 2011; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007; van de Vyver, Houston, Abrams, & Vasiljevic, 2016).”
Not All Ideologies are Created Equal: Epistemic, Existential, and Relational Needs Predict System-Justifying Attitudes (2012, background): “Some evidence exists to support this assumption (e.g., Jost et al., 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009; Rutjens & Loseman, 2010; Thórisdóttir & Jost, 2011; Ullrich & Cohrs, 2007).”