Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis
By Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Christopher M. Federico. European Journal of Social Psychology, 2018
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Using data from a longitudinal study of American adults collected between July and November 2016, we examine the hypothesis that American collective narcissism would uniquely predict increases in conspiracy thinking during the 2016 presidential campaign. Going beyond previous findings, our results indicate that collective narcissism (but not in-group identification) predicted growth in general conspiracy thinking—i.e., a tendency to view political events in terms of group-based conspiracies—over the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. This relationship is found even after accounting for other predictors such as demographics, political knowledge, social trust, authoritarianism, and need for cognitive closure.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science
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- Mistrust and misinformation: A two-component, socio-epistemic model of belief in conspiracy theories (2020, background): “…such ideological needs have been identified as needs for control or to blame, along with ingroup social identification and collective narcissism (Cichocka et al., 2016; Federico, Williams, & Vitriol, 2018; Golec de Zavala & Federico, 2018; Mashuri & Zaduqisti, 2014a; Sapountzis & Condor, 2013).”