Does anyone know of literature on, or have an interest in the application of psychological knowledge and principles to different political parties? I am especially interested in psychological analyses of left-wing parties and voters.
you can try to measure SDO and RWA as ideological components, and explicit and implicit preferences(see for example http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00635.x/abstract)
Thank you for this interesting link. Do you have interests in this area yourself Alberto? What are your areas of interest?
Some of my areas of interest are the ideological consistency and the effect of social threat on the increase of authoritarianism
Are you interested in different sources of social threat and how these impact the growth of authoritarianism? I am thinking of an old piece of research by Leon Festinger called "when prophecy fails" about how a cult adapted to failure in its prophecies. This relates to authoritarianism.
Yes, I'm (if you are interested take a look at this paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12048/abstract )
Thanks Alberto, I will look at your suggestion and then may get back to you.
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