Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9004516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul R Nail (Conway School of Landscape Design), Ian Mcgregor (0000-0002-2936-8883, York University, corresponding author), April E Drinkwater (Conway School of Landscape Design), Garrett M Steele (University of Central Arkansas), Anthony W Thompson (Conway School of Landscape Design) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 901-907 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1031 • E-ISSN: 1096-0465 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.013 |
| OpenAlex | W2142425122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 37 |
Classical liberalism · Conservatism · Conviction · Ingroups and outgroups · Injustice · Liberalism · Mortality salience · Personality · Political science · Politics · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Seeking Order in Chaos
Toward a greater understanding of the emotional dynamics of the mortality salience manipulation
Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
Prejudice as an Expression of Tribalism
Boosting Belligerence
The Politics of Fear
Are Conservatives More Sensitive to Threat than Liberals? It Depends on How We Define Threat and Conservatism
Not All Ideologies are Created Equal
Optimistic vs. pessimistic endings in climate change appeals
Psychological Science in the Wake of Covid-19
The Impact of Terrorist Attack News on Moral Intuitions
Is negativity bias intuitive for liberals and conservatives
Moral foundations and prosocial giving in deficit versus growth conditions
Deciding between moral priorities and Covid-19 avoiding behaviors
A preliminary experimental test of the crossed influences between the valence of collective memory and collective future thinking
Defensive Behaviors During Covid-19 and the 2020–2021 Firearm Purchasing Surge
When Future Leads to a Moral Present
The Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic Made People Feel Threatened, but Had a Limited Impact on Political Attitudes in the United States
Were Americans’ Political Attitudes Linked to Objective Threats From Covid-19? An Examination of Data From Project Implicit During Initial Months of the Pandemic
Sociotropic and Personal Threats and Authoritarian Reactions During Covid-19
Living alone and electoral behavior. A contextual approach looking at single-person households in southern Europe
Political segmentation based on pictorial preferences on social media
We the People
Does the Association Between Illness-Related and Religious Searches on the Internet Depend on the Level of Religiosity
Political Ideologies and their Social Psychological Functions
Learning to Make a Difference
Rally effects, threat, and attitude change
Seeking structure in social organization
The dynamics of public opinion following terror attacks
On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America
Conservatives Anticipate and Experience Stronger Emotional Reactions to Negative Outcomes
Agitation Strategies of Anti-immigrant
Status Threat, Partisanship, and Voters’ Conservative Shift Toward Right-Wing Candidates
In Search of the Missing Links Between Economic Insecurity and Political Protest
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models
The effect of climate change threat on public attitudes towards ethnic and religious minorities and climate refugees
When the Political Right “Feels Right”, or How the Need for Cognitive Closure and Threat‐Related Uncertainty Leads Liberals to the Conservative Shift
Political ideology as motivated social cognition
A quarter century of system justification theory
Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world
In masks we trust
How Does Social Class Affect Need for Structure during the Covid-19 Pandemic? A Moderated Mediating Model Analysis
Harm mediates the disgust-immorality link
Incidental fear reduces empathy for an out-group’s pain
Ecological economics in the age of fear
Smoke Your Troubles Away
Do Beliefs in Christian Nationalism Predict Mental Health Problems? The Role of Religious (Non)Involvement
Tolerating the intolerant
Media Framing and Partisan Identity
A Replication of Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) Indicates Less False Consensus Among Liberals Than Conservatives, But No False Uniqueness
Understanding public constructions of counter-terrorism
A gender-based pandemic? Covid-19 and attitudes towards gender and relief policies in South Korea
Terrorism’s effect on Europe’s centre- and far-right parties
The “Rally ’round the Flag” Effect in Territorial Disputes
Authoritarianism and privacy
Eating with our eyes (closed)
Closing ranks
The threat of increasing diversity
Personality Traits and Chronic Disease
Mind over matter
Right-Wing Authoritarian and Explicit Prejudice Attitude Responses to the Paris Terror Attacks
Not All Terror Is Alike
Something to Prove? Manhood Threats Increase Political Aggression Among Liberal Men
Voter Classification Based on Susceptibility to Persuasive Strategies
Do changes in threat salience predict the moral content of sermons? The case of Friday Khutbas in Turkey
Superheroes for change
Spontaneous goal versus spontaneous trait inferences
Terrorist Attacks, Stereotyping, and Attitudes Toward Immigrants
Red, white, and blue enough to be green
Navigating ideological divides in digital spaces
Can ingroup affirmation relieve outgroup derogation
My country, right or wrong
Trial by ideology
The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism
Similarity focus and support for redistribution
The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions
Are we at all liberal at heart? High-powered tests find no effect of intuitive thinking on moral foundations
Compensating personal climate response inefficacy with political conservatism
Emotional Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
Do Threats Galvanize Authoritarians or Mobilize Nonauthoritarians? Experimental Tests from 19 European Societies
Terrorist attacks and Europeans’ attitudes towards immigrants
Do terrorist attacks feed populist Eurosceptics? Evidence from two comparative quasi‐experiments
How terrorism affects political attitudes
Are we all Charlie? How media priming and framing affect immigration policy preferences after terrorist attacks
Authoritarian Opposition? Authoritarian Disposition and Resistance to Public Health Mitigation Strategies During Covid-19
Death Goes to the Polls
The Contingent, Contextual Nature of the Relationship Between Needs for Security and Certainty and Political Preferences
The Influence of Existential Threat and Tolerance Salience on Anti‐Islamic Attitudes in American Politics
The Mobilizing Effect of Right‐Wing Ideological Climates
Replacing the Moral Foundations
Who Is to Blame? Official Discourse and Ethnic Diversity Attitudes During the 2011 Riots in England
Political Neuroscience
Motivated Closed‐Mindedness Mediates the Effect of Threat on Political Conservatism
Revisiting the Effects of Societal Threat Perceptions on Conflict-related Positions
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration
How Terrorism Does (and Does Not) Affect Citizens’ Political Attitudes
Insecurity and Support for Female Leadership in Conflict States
How Do Consumers React to Company Moral Transgressions? The Role of Power Distance Belief and Empathy for Victims
Democratic and Authoritarian Government Preferences in Times of Crisis
Dispositional Fear and Political Attitudes
Belief in Supernatural Agents in the Face of Death
Mortality Salience Increases Adherence to Salient Norms and Values
Deliver us from Evil
Conservative Shift Among High-Exposure Survivors of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism
The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality
The Relationship of Authoritarianism and Related Constructs to Attitudes Toward Homosexuality 1
The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem
Uncertainty–Identity Theory
Public Self and Private Self
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect
Effects of terrorism on attitudes and ideological orientation
Terror management and tolerance
God and the government
An enquiry concerning the principles of cultural norms and values
Evidence for terror management theory
Preference for consistency
When similarity breeds content
Economic threat as a determinant of conversion rates in authoritarian and nonauthoritarian churches
Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty
Defensive Zeal and the Uncertain Self
Political orientation and modern versus aversive racism
Focus theory of normative conduct and terror-management theory
Defensive pride and consensus
Personal need for structure
Membership has its (epistemic) rewards
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
Social consequences of experiential openness
Conservative Shift among Liberals and Conservatives Following 9/11/01
Terrorism Salience increases System Justification
| Unique citing works | 108 |
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| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |