Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Ideological Defense of the
            <i>Status Quo</i>

Federico, Christopher M.; Deason, Grace

doi:10.1002/9781444344073.ch12

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“…In sum, our results reveal that the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity is more complex and conditional than previously thought. Furthermore, it contributes to the growing body of literature on variables, such as education and development, that can facilitate the expression of psychological dispositions (Federico & Deason, 2012; Federico & Malka, 2018; Malka et al., 2014, 2017), sometimes in the counterintuitive ways such as those found in the present study.…”

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“…In the case of education, a growing body of research suggests that education allows people to adopt attitudes and behaviours that are more aligned with their basic psychological dispositions – including, in the present case, authoritarianism (Federico & Deason, 2012; Federico & Malka, 2018). Among other things, education brings a greater level of cognitive sophistication, which makes it easier for people to see which inclinations, attitudes, and behaviours ‘go together’ (either logically or normatively; Barton & Parsons, 1977; Converse, 1964).…”

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Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity

Federico

Bai

Aguilera

2021

British J Social Psychol

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Social scientists have devoted much attention to explaining individual and contextual variation in religiosity. Among other things, authoritarianism is reliably found to be associated with greater religiosity. Though education and human development are often thought to reduce religiosity, we show in this study that the relationship between authoritarianism and various indices of religiosity is stronger in the presence of greater educational attainment and living in a society with a higher level of human development. Using two large cross-cultural datasets from the World Values Survey, we find evidence that authoritarianism is more strongly associated with religious involvement and practice among individuals at higher levels of education and individuals living in societies with higher level of human development. Thus, we demonstrate that the connection between authoritarianism and religiosity is contingent on both individual-level and societal moderators.

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Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity

Federico

Bai

Aguilera

2021

British J Social Psychol

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“…The willingness to preserve things as they are, defining status quo ideologies (Jylhä and Akrami 2015), may also yield climate change denial through the effect of social dominance orientation and general system justification. Reducing uncertainty threats may mitigate ideological orientations toward the status quo (Federico and Deason 2011). Finally, cultural values may trigger denial through vertical individualism, which corresponds to the conception of an autonomous/independent individual and acceptance of inequality.…”

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Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions

Mathias,

Anderies,

Crépin

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This study explores social-psychological barriers that may affect resilience in the context of sustainability. These barriers can be understood as unobserved processes that reduce the capacity of a social-ecological system to recover after a perturbation or transformation. Analyzing social-psychological processes enables us to distinguish passive and active processes, at the individual and collective levels. Our work suggests that interacting social and psychological processes should be considered as dynamically evolving determinants of resilience, especially when perturbations can change the psychology of individuals, and thus the underlying dynamics of social-ecological systems. Hence, considering social-psychological barriers and the conditions under which they emerge may provide decision makers with useful insights for coping with ineluctable uncertainties that reduce systems' transformative capacity and thus their general resilience.

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“…Oltre a quanto appena detto, la paura ha sempre più un carattere pervasivo, tanto che alcuni autori e autrici (Glassner 1999;Furedi 2006) arrivano a parlare di una vera e propria "cultura della paura" come un elemento caratteristico delle società contemporanee occidentali, che può configurarsi anche come strumento per mantenere lo status quo (Federico, Deason 2012).…”

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La creazione mediatica della paura: lo spettro della censura tra cancel culture e politicamente corretto

Cannito,

Mercuri,

Tomatis

2023

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The article examines how Italian news coverage on Facebook has influenced the debate on cancel culture, linking it to phenomena like political correctness and framing it as an assault on freedom of expression. By analysing posts from 2020 to 2021 on the Facebook pages of major Italian newspapers, sourced through the CrowdTangle platform, the article explores the journalistic portrayal of cancel culture. It also considers how this media depiction has fostered an atmosphere of fear in a society where anxiety and unease, intensified by media representation, lose their tangible essence yet become increasingly pervasive. The thematic analysis identified two primary dimensions within the Italian journalistic discourse: the nature of cancel culture’s targets (people/objects) and their temporal context (present/past). The results indicate that contemporary journalism constructs the notion of a “cancel culture”, associating it with topics such as censorship, potential identity erosion, and the reinterpretation or denial of cultural and historical facets. This portrayal, intensified by the media, influences public perception and gives rise to growing feelings of unease and tension, culminating in a general climate of fear.

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Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Ideological Defense of the Status Quo

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity

Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity

Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions

La creazione mediatica della paura: lo spettro della censura tra cancel culture e politicamente corretto

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