Research on the basis of political ideology indicates that psychological variables influence ideological positions. In particular, the role of authoritarianism is of long-standing interest to political scholars. This article looks at how political expertise conditions the ideological implications of the authoritarian predisposition. Although theories of authoritarianism imply that it is a const...

Theory and research in social, evolutionary, political psychology indicates that subjective feelings of threat exposure to objectively threatening circumstances—including pandemic diseases—may contribute increased affinities for conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism, prejudice against out-group members. We investigated these possibilities the context Italy, which was first Western country b...

The study of authoritarianism has a long history in the field psychology; however, much this research focuses on Western countries, especially United States. In effort to better understand cross-culturally, we explore current state an important cultural context: Russia. Thus, paper reports large-scale right-wing and social dominance orientation modern Russian context. Six studies (total N = 1,3...

Individuals with different political attitudes attribute their political tendencies to different sources of moral authority. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between moral authority sources, political attitude and authoritarianism. A total of 128 subjects from two universities participated in this study by completing the Moral Authority Test-Revised (MAS-R) and the Authoritarian...

There has been a long history of work on authoritarianism that has looked at the role of societal threat. Much of the empirical research in this tradition has relied on aggregate data to examine the relationship between societal threat and authoritarian attitudes and behaviors. Our analysis uses individual-level data and a range of perceived threat measures to better understand the dynamics of ...

Authoritarianism may be endorsed in part as a means of managing and buffering psychological threats (e.g., Duckitt & Fisher, 2003; Henry, 2011). Building on this research, the authors postulated that authoritarianism should be especially prevalent among women in societies with high levels of gender inequality because they especially face more psychological threats associated with stigma compare...

During protracted intractable conflicts, society members develop a sociopsychological infrastructure that leads to selective and biased information processing, obstructing the penetration of new information that may facilitate peacemaking. To validate a process model that depicts the functioning of these barriers, we conducted a study among 207 Israeli Jews, focusing on the effects of long-term...

Research in political psychology largely ignores early childhood. This is likely due to the assumption that young children lack cognitive capacity and social understanding needed for thought. Challenging this assumption, we argue research with both possible important psychologists. We focus on topic of ideology demonstrate our argument. review recent evidence revealing cognition childhood—and e...

Mothers and children between the ages of 7 and 12, from individualist (Western European) and collectivist (Egyptian, Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani) backgrounds, completed assessments of children's self-esteem, maternal authoritarianism, and mothers' thoughts and feelings about their children. Collectivist mothers endorsed authoritarian parenting more than did individualist mothers but did not ...