Making Americans Feel Great Again? Personal Significance Predicts Political Intentions of Losers and Winners of the 2016 U.S. Election

Jaśko, Katarzyna; Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Joanna; Maj, Marta; Szastok, Marta; Kruglanski, Arie W.

doi:10.1111/pops.12647

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“…The majority of studies ( n = 35 cross-sectional, 1 longitudinal, 12 experimental) focused on significance loss, which was operationalized as a threat of significance loss or actual significance loss. The threat of significance loss was measured in two studies as: (a) negative emotional states related to the potential failure of the participants’ candidate in the U.S. presidential election (Jasko, Grzymala-Moszczynska, et al, 2020, Study 1a) and (b) socioeconomic threat (van Prooijen & Kuijper, 2020 2 ). Actual significance loss was measured in 35 studies.…”

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“…Nine cross-sectional studies assessed significance gain as positive emotional states. Among these, one focused on anticipated significance gain concerning the potential victory of the participants’ candidate in the U.S. presidential election (Jasko, Grzymala-Moszczynska, et al, 2020, Study 1b). The remaining eight studies focused on actual significance gain following: (a) the election of Trump among Trump voters (Jasko, Grzymala-Moszczynska, et al, 2020, Studies 2–3) or (b) participation in activism (Jasko et al, 2019, Studies 1–6).…”

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“…The 31 reports retained for the present systematic review led to the inclusion of 84 studies ( n = 58 cross-sectional, 24 experimental, and 2 longitudinal). The large majority of these reported primary data ( n = 81), while three studies were based on secondary data (Jasko, Grzymala-Moszczynska, et al, 2020, Study 3; Jasko et al, 2017; Troian et al, 2019, Study 5). A variety of radical and nonradical, violent and nonviolent, samples from several different countries were investigated: Yellow Vests (France), general population (Canada, Spain, United States, France), undergraduate students (Pakistan, France, United States, Turkey), environmentalists (United States, Poland), nonradical Muslims (Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Spain), far-left extremists (United States, Poland), far-right extremists (United States, United Kingdom), feminists (Poland), former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka), animal rights activists (United States), and French-Maghrebi (France), to name a few.…”

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“…Few cross-sectional studies ( n = 5) tested the presence of significance as a protective factor against extremism. When this was the case, the measures used were the Presence of Meaning subscale (Dugas et al, 2016, Study 1; Webber et al, 2018), positive emotional states (Jasko, Grzymala-Moszczynska, et al, 2020, Studies 1a–1b), and social inclusion (Troian et al, 2019, Study 5). The only experimental manipulation of current significance targeted the participants’ current legacy (Schumpe et al, 2020, Study 3) through a recall task.…”

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The significance quest theory and the 3N model: A systematic review.

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Domingo³

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Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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According to the Significance Quest Theory (Kruglanski et al., 2009) and the 3N model , violent extremism is the product of a quest for significance triggered by a need for significance (need) and nourished by subscription to a radical ideology (narrative) and affiliation with a radical network (network). The present systematic review aims to synthesize extant quantitative empirical research mobilizing this framework. We screened a total of 151 reports, of which 31 met our eligibility criteria. These regrouped a total of 84 studies. Our findings show an important heterogeneity in the measurements and manipulations of significance (need and quest), narrative, and network, as well as in the pathways examined. Moreover, while the theory's predictions are confirmed by a majority of the studies' findings (n = 74), such predictions are also infirmed by a considerable number of studies' findings (n = 29). This is particularly the case for the empirical evidence related to the association between significance loss and extremism, as well as the association between significance loss and narrative, and between network and extremism. More consistent evidence was found concerning the association between significance loss and network, significance quest and narrative, significance quest and extremism, and narrative and extremism. The methodological, operational, and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed. Public Significance StatementViolent extremism is a major societal issue of interest for psychologists and scholars in psychology from all fields. Understanding its psychological underpinnings is key to preventing its expansion. A systematic review of 14 years of empirical evidence from the Significance Quest Theory and its 3N model highlights the need for a standardized research protocol and for a more rigorous investigation to improve the theory and its model.

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“…In negative polarization, voters side with a given candidate primarily from a distaste for the candidate's opponent [47,48]. In a study of both Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters, K. Jasko et al [49] found that one's individual sense of personal significance predicts hostility to the preferred candidate's opponents.…”

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Some Thoughts Evoked by Peter Lor, Bradley Wiles, and Johannes Britz, “Re-thinking Information Ethics: Truth, Conspiracy Theories, and Librarians in the COVID-19 Era,” in LIBRI, March 2021

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The paper offers some thoughts prompted by the research paper published by Peter Lor, Bradley Wiles, and Johannes Britz, “Re-Thinking Information Ethics: Truth, Conspiracy Theories, and Librarians in the COVID-19 Era,” in LIBRI, March 2021. It highlights two significant contributions, an analysis of the misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic and the notion of alethic rights, the right of truth of patrons based on the work of D’Agostini. This reflection then situates the COVID-19 misinformation campaign within the broader disinformation ecology within which it exists. While it agrees that alethic rights are an important ethical framework, it wonders whether it practically advances work beyond that libraries and librarians are already doing, e.g., in collection decisions, approaches to reference questions, or library programming. It looks at the debate between John Swan and Noel Peattie on the inclusion of books representing outright lies in the collection (e.g., Holocaust denial). It then contrasts a right to information and authorities propagating and validating that information with a right to misinformation and authorities for propagating and validating that misinformation that exists within disinformation ecologies. The problem of truth, its authorities and its context appears to be more complicated than an appeal to alethic truths: for example, liberals and conservatives differ on the meaning of a rational consensus on contentious political matters, such as climate change. Given the dire consequences of misinformation on democracies and public health, an appeal to professional neutrality is woefully inadequate. There must be proactive resistance, if not outright repudiation.

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