The Politics of Fear: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in Existential Motivation?

By John T. Jost, Chadly Stern, Nicholas O. Rule, Joanna Sterling. 2017

237 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. G. Marcus
2. Sherman A. Lee
3. M. Foucault
4. Pavlos Vasilopoulos
5. Nicholas A. Valentino

In Social Psychology

1. G. Marcus
2. Sherman A. Lee
3. M. Foucault
4. Pavlos Vasilopoulos
5. Nicholas A. Valentino
6. Marcantonio M. Spada
7. Ana V. Nikcevic

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Pavlos Vasilopoulos
2. M. Foucault
3. G. Marcus
4. Nicholas A. Valentino
5. Sherman A. Lee

Citations in the corpus

• Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks (2018, background): “…to include measures both of anger and anxiety in the study of the association between threat and the endorsement of different facets of the conservative and authoritarian ideologies (Feldman & Stenner, 1997; Hetherington & Suhay, 2011; Jost et al., 2017; Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003).”
• Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety (2020, result): “These findings confirm what the social and political psychologists call the “conservative shifts” phenomenon, where existential fear tends to move people toward supporting political conservatism and conservative leadership (Jost et al., 2017).”