Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis
Authors:
- Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Abstract
Using data from a longitudinal study of American adults collected between July and November 2016, we examine the hypothesis that American collective narcissism (CN) would uniquely predict increases in conspiracy thinking during the 2016 presidential campaign. Going beyond previous findings, our results indicate that CN (but not in‐group identification) predicted growth in general conspiracy thinking—that is, a tendency to view political events in terms of group‐based conspiracies—over the course of the 2016 US presidential campaign. This relationship is found even after accounting for other predictors such as demographics, political knowledge, social trust, authoritarianism, and need for cognitive closure.
- Record ID
- SWPSbbca8d1ed30645d4968727ffd8588546
- Author
- Journal series
- European Journal of Social Psychology, ISSN 0046-2772
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 48
- No
- 7
- Pages
- 1011-1018
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- collective narcissism, conspiracy thinking, presidential campaign
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.7910/DVN/LW0GTR opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2496 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- File: 1
- Golec de Zavala - Collective narcissism and the growth 2018.pdf
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- Additional file
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- Golec de Zavala - Collective narcissism and the growth 2018 ośw.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 30
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2018 = 1.298; : 2017 = 2.048 (2) - 2017=2.630 (5); = 45
- Citation count
- 56
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- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/SWPSbbca8d1ed30645d4968727ffd8588546/
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