A psycho‐political profile of party activists and left‐wing and right‐wing extremists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6259693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alain Van Hiel (0000-0003-2286-737X, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-203 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.01991.x |
| OpenAlex | W1596440486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 47 |
Previous studies comparing ideological groups have been restricted to tests of between‐group differences in the means of relevant political psychological variables, thereby neglecting group differences in the variances, meanings and nomological networks of the tested variables. A first exploratory study used data from the European Social Survey (N = 7,314) comparing groups of political party members on the basis of their scores on a self‐placement left–right scale. The second study (N = 69) constituted an in‐depth test for the presence of differences between samples of political activists of moderate parties, communists, anarchists and right‐wing extremists. The results revealed that there is a fair amount of heterogeneity within left‐wing and right‐wing extremists, indicating a substantial amount of within‐group variance of social attitudes, values and prejudice. Moreover, the extremist ideologies are best approached as distinct ideologies that cannot be reduced to extreme versions of moderate ideology, and differences in the meanings and nomological networks of the various extremist ideologies were also obtained. It is erroneous to consider members of extremist groups as being ‘all alike’. The findings obtained from samples of political moderates are not a particularly solid basis for theories about extremism
Ideology · Left and right · Left-wing politics · Political science · Politics · Right wing · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Narcissism and Political Left-Right Orientation in View of Basic Human Values
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Political polarization of trust in science
The Progressive Values Scale
Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets
Why Should We Care What Extremists Think? The Contribution of Emic Perspectives to Understanding the “right-wing extremist” Mind-Set
Social psychological perspectives on Trump supporters
European Sociopolitical Mentalities
Sociopsychological correlates of militant extremist beliefs in a postconflict society
Are misinformation, antiscientific claims, and conspiracy theories for political extremists
Political ideology and attitudes towards Israel in Germany in the aftermath of the 10/7 massacres
Am I an activist, a volunteer, both, or neither? A study of role‐identity profiles and their correlates among citizens engaged with equality and social justice issues
The social‐psychological bases of far‐right support in Europe and the United States
Broadening the individual differences lens on party support and voting behavior
Adolescents’ development of approval of violent political action
Extreme‐Right Voting in Western Europe
The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism
A Radical Vision of Radicalism
The psychological roots of populist voting
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The Language of Extremity
Strength and Weakness
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Personality differences in childhood and adolescence
The Motivational Bases of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation
The authoritarian personality
Processing attitude statements from in-group and out-group members
Political sophistication and political deviance
The Other “Authoritarian Personality”
Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality
The search for dimensional structure differences between normality and abnormality
Half of All Authoritarians Are Left Wing
Processing attitude statements from in-group and out-group members
Value Priorities and Religiosity in Four Western Religions
The terrorists' dilemmas
Autoritäre Einstellung und Statusmerkmale von ehemaligen Angehörigen der Waffen-SS und SS und der Wehrmacht
Social dominance orientation
Authoritarianism and Social Dominance in Western and Eastern Europe
The Presence of Left-Wing Authoritarianism in Western Europe and Its Relationship with Conservative Ideology
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Exceptions that prove the rule--Using a theory of motivated social cognition to account for ideological incongruities and political anomalies
When Hatred is Bred in the Bone
Left-Wing Authoritarianism
The Catastrophic Link Between the Importance and Extremity of Political Attitudes
Similarities and Differences Between Left-Wing and Right-Wing Radicals
Cognitive style and political ideology
Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition
Cognitive Functioning and Sociopolitical Ideology Revisited
The silent counter-revolution
The Myth of Left-Wing Authoritarianism
An Ethnographer Looks at Neo-Nazi and Klan Groups
Construct validity in psychological tests
Extending the Cross-Cultural Validity of the Theory of Basic Human Values with a Different Method of Measurement
| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |