Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Bai, Hui

doi:10.1111/bjso.12350

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“…As discussed above, the results overall suggest that ideology can play an important role after all, and to some extent, it plays a more powerful role than party identity. These results are consistent with recent findings that (in)egalitarian ideology seems to be a stronger predictor of extremisms on racial or racialized topics than racial identity (Bai, 2020). However, what is it that makes values so special relative to their group identity?…”

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The Multiple Matching Perspective on Value versus Identity: Investigating How Political Ideology and Party Identity Contribute to Citizens’ Support for Political Candidates

Bai¹

2020

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Many past studies tested effects of political value (i.e., ideology) and identity (i.e., party identity) on support for political candidates. Little has compared their effects by considering them from the perspectives of citizens and the candidate. This paper takes them into consideration by introducing and using the multiple matching perspective. It compares how much the predictive power of citizens’ ideology and political identity are moderated by a candidate’s ideology as well as the candidate’s party affiliation. Therefore, four types of matches (i.e., statistical moderations) are compared under this perspective: A. citizens’ ideology-candidates’ ideology match, B. citizens’ party-candidates’ ideology cross-match, C. citizens’ ideology-candidates’ party cross-match, and D. citizens’ party-candidates’ party match. The following novel and nuanced patterns about the role of ideology and party identity are uncovered under this perspective using four studies (total N=41,986): 1. The effect of ideological match (A) is large, robust, and consistent. 2. The moderating effect of candidates’ ideology (A and B) is more powerful than candidates’ party affiliation (C and D) except during the final stage of a presidential race (when A and D are similar). 3. Citizens’ party identity may guide them to support a candidate whose ideology is congruent with the party that citizens identify with (B), but it is less so for the reverse of it (less evidence for C). Finally, a supplemental study shows that citizens’ ideology is more central to their self-concept and more moralized than their party identity, and this may explain the primacy of ideology over party identity.

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The Multiple Matching Perspective on Value versus Identity: Investigating How Political Ideology and Party Identity Contribute to Citizens’ Support for Political Candidates

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2020

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“…We argue that two important political-psychological predispositions that may be associated with belief in COVID-19 origin theories are right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). Both RWA and SDO emerged from research investigating different individual-level factors that explain prejudice and are thought to represent two types of right-wing personalities (Altemeyer, 1981;Diaz-Veizades et al, 1995;Duckitt, 2001;Sibley et al, 2006;Wilson and Sibley, 2013). In the Dual Process Motivational Model, for example, Duckitt (2001) theorised that two sets of motivational schemas, threat-control and competition-dominance, are the foundations of RWA and SDO, respectively, and that these dimensions were responsible for distinct forms of prejudice.…”

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Different Conspiracy Theories Have Different Psychological and Social Determinants: Comparison of Three Theories About the Origins of the COVID-19 Virus in a Representative Sample of the UK Population

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COVID-19 conspiracy theories have proliferated during the global pandemic, and their rapid spread among certain groups may jeopardize the public health response (e.g., undermining motivation to engage in social distancing and willingness to vaccinate against the virus). Using survey data from two waves of a nationally representative, longitudinal study of life in lockdown in the United Kingdom (N = 1,406), we analyze the factors associated with belief in three origin theories related to COVID-19, namely that it 1) originated in a meat market in Wuhan, China; 2) was developed in a lab in Wuhan, China; and 3) is caused by 5G mobile networks. Our findings suggest that political-psychological predispositions are strongly associated with belief in conspiracy theories about the virus, though the direction and effect sizes of these predictors vary depending on the specific content of each origin theory. For instance, belief in the Chinese lab conspiracy theory is strongly associated with right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), and general conspiracy ideation, as well as less reliable news sources, distrust in scientists, and anxiety about the pandemic. Belief in the 5G network conspiracy theory is strongly associated with SDO, distrust in scientists, while less strongly with conspiracy ideation and information from social networks/media; RWA is strongly negatively associated with belief in the 5G conspiracy theory, with older and more wealthy individuals somewhat less likely to endorse it. The meat market origin theory is predicted by intolerance of uncertainty, ethnocentrism, COVID-19 anxiety, and less so by higher income, while distrust in scientists is negatively associated with this origin story. Finally, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories is associated with negative public health behaviors such as unwillingness to social distance and vaccinate against the virus. Crucially, our findings suggest that the specific content of COVID-19 conspiracy theories likely determines which individuals may be most likely to endorse them.

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“…At the individual level, researchers have shown that far-right extremism is predicted by being unemployed, hostility toward immigration (Lubbers, Gijsberts, & Scheepers, 2002), and a belief in the in-group's superiority (Doosje et al, 2012). Evidence also suggests that social dominance orientation, identification with the White ingroup, and their interaction also predict far-right extremism in the United States (Bai, 2020).…”

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White and Minority Demographic Shifts, Intergroup Threat, and Right-Wing Extremism

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2020

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We present four studies (one correlational and three experimental) of American Whites that examine relationships between White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and support for extreme-right groups and actions. We focus in particular on the role of collective existential threat (i.e., a perception that the ingroup will cease to exist), along with three alternative/competing intergroup threats: status threat, symbolic threat, prototypicality threat. Though no zero-order relationship was found between perceived White population decline and far-right variables, we find evidence that (1) perceived White population decline leads to collective existential threat net of other perceived demographic shifts, (2) collective existential threat is related to far-right support net of other threats, and (3) perceived White decline has a robust indirect relationship with measures of far-right support via collective existential threat.

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Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Cited by 12 publications

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The Multiple Matching Perspective on Value versus Identity: Investigating How Political Ideology and Party Identity Contribute to Citizens’ Support for Political Candidates

The Multiple Matching Perspective on Value versus Identity: Investigating How Political Ideology and Party Identity Contribute to Citizens’ Support for Political Candidates

Different Conspiracy Theories Have Different Psychological and Social Determinants: Comparison of Three Theories About the Origins of the COVID-19 Virus in a Representative Sample of the UK Population

White and Minority Demographic Shifts, Intergroup Threat, and Right-Wing Extremism

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