Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters
By T. Pettigrew. Konfliktdynamik, 2017
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No one factor describes Trump’s supporters. But an array of factors – many of them reflecting five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary political event: authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact. Research on the topic demonstrates that these theories and concepts of social psychology prove centrally important in helping to understand this unexpected event. This paper describes the supporting data for this statement and demonstrates the close parallels between these American results and those of research on far-right European supporters.
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security (2019, background): “Perhaps unsurprisingly, recent works have found that a feeling of deprivation—the belief that something was not merely lost but taken away—is associated with sympathy for populism (Pettigrew 2017; Marchlewska et al 2017).”