Grievance, social dominance orientation, and authoritarianism in the choice and justification of terror versus protest

Lemieux, Anthony F.; Asal, Victor

doi:10.1080/17467586.2010.531029

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“…A recent meta-analysis assessed research related to antisemitism and antigypsyism between 2005 and 2017 in Hungary revealed that right-wing authoritarianism is a more important predictor of anti-minority attitudes than SDO (Kende et al, 2018). We did not include relative deprivation, political alienation, and low political power, as they are all antecedents of radical protest (see e.g., Daskin, 2016;Lemieux & Asal, 2010;Muller & Jukam, 1983;Staub, 1999Staub, , 2000. We only measured the propensity for radical protest, as it is an expression of strong political discontent and dissatisfaction (Muller & Jukam, 1983), but it would be useful in future studies to also investigate its antecedents as separate predictors of intergroup violence.…”

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“…Violencefor example in the context of protestscan be an expression of strong political discontent (Muller & Jukam, 1983), grievance (Lemieux & Asal, 2010), or the outcome of intergroup situations that are perceived stable and illegitimate (Livingstone, Spears, Manstead, & Bruder, 2009;Scheepers, Spears, Doosje, & Manstead, 2006). Discontent can be explained by group-basedso-called "fraternal"relative deprivation (Runciman, 1966), when people feel that their group is at a disadvantaged compared to other groups or their situation improves less than that of other groups, resulting in feelings of injustice and resentment.…”

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Justification of intergroup violence – the role of right-wing authoritarianism and propensity for radical action

Faragó

Kende

Krekó

2019

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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Economic and political trends of the last decades resulted in a general rise in anti-minority populism in Hungary. Anti-minority sentiments have been manifested in violence primarily against the Roma, but also against other target groups. The aim of the current study is to reveal the social psychological mechanisms of justifying intergroup violence against outgroups representing a symbolic or a physical threat. Considering that right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) can legitimize violence agsainst threatening outgroups, we hypothesized that RWA would be more important in explaining justification of intergroup violence than a general propensity for radical action. We tested our hypothesis using computerassisted personal interviews using a representative sample of 1000 respondents. Using structural equation modelling, we found that RWA was a much stronger predictor of the justification of intergroup violence against both physically and symbolically threatening groups than propensity for radical action. Furthermore, a comparison of the groups also revealed that those who justify violence against symbolically threatening groups were also higher in right-wing authoritarianism. These findings highlight that RWA justifies politically motivated aggression against different target groups in Hungary.

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Justification of intergroup violence – the role of right-wing authoritarianism and propensity for radical action

Faragó

Kende

Krekó

2019

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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“…There are a few notable exceptions. Lemieux and Asal (2010), for instance, assessed the influence of RWA on support for peaceful and violent forms of political action in response to reading a vignette that manipulated level of grievance. They found that respondents who were high in RWA were generally less inclined to support any form of political action.…”

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Authoritarianism, Institutional Confidence, and Willingness to Engage in Collective Action

Weiner

Federico

2017

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The antecedents of collective action have received considerable attention in psychology, political science, and sociology. However, few studies have addressed the extent to which individual differences in psychological needs, motives, and traits predict collective action tendencies. In the present study, we focus on an especially important individual difference: authoritarianism. We examined three key hypotheses: (1) that authoritarianism would be associated with lower willingness to engage in collective action (net of other factors known to predict protest), (2) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be stronger among the politically engaged; and (3) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be weaker among those who lacked confidence in major social institutions. Using data from three independent waves of the World Values Survey, we find cross-national evidence supporting all three hypotheses.

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“…Those who actively liked the material also tended to have higher SDO than those who did not, which supports other research suggesting that high SDO individuals are more likely to interact with extremist propaganda than those who are not. 87 Similarly, likes were also more likely to be associated with OGH. These results suggest that like and dislike interactions are important for researchers in evaluating engagement in extremist online material in several ways.…”

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Engaging with Online Extremist Material: Experimental Evidence

Reeve

2019

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Despite calls from governments to clamp down on violent extremist material in the online sphere, in the name of preventing radicalisation and therefore terrorism research investigating how people engage with extremist material online is surprisingly scarce. The current paper addresses this gap in knowledge with an online experiment. A fictional extremist webpage was designed and (student) participants chose how to engage with it.. A mortality salience prime (being primed to think of death) was also included. Mortality salience did not influence engagement with the material but the material itself may have led to disidentification with the ingroup. Whilst interaction with the material was fairly low, those that did engage tended to indicate preference for hierarchy and dominance in society, stronger identification with the ingroup, higher levels of radicalism, and outgroup hostility. More engagement with the online extremist material was also associated with increased likelihood of explicitly supporting the extremist group. These findings show that indoctrination, socialisation, and ideology are not necessarily required for individuals to engage attitudinally or behaviourally with extremist material. This study is not conducted on the dependent variable, therefore shedding light on individuals who do not engage with extremist material.

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Grievance, social dominance orientation, and authoritarianism in the choice and justification of terror versus protest

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Justification of intergroup violence – the role of right-wing authoritarianism and propensity for radical action

Justification of intergroup violence – the role of right-wing authoritarianism and propensity for radical action

Authoritarianism, Institutional Confidence, and Willingness to Engage in Collective Action

Engaging with Online Extremist Material: Experimental Evidence

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