The psychological causes and societal consequences of authoritarianism

D Osborne, TH Costello, J Duckitt… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, citizens' political rights and civil liberties have declined globally.
Psychological science can play an instrumental role in both explaining and combating the …

Nationalism as collective narcissism

A Cichocka, A Cislak - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Modern-day nationalism is characterised by a need for the external
recognition.•The need for recognition of in-group's worth is typical for collective …

Collective narcissism: Political consequences of investing self‐worth in the ingroup's image

A Golec de Zavala, K Dyduch‐Hazar… - Political …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article proposes a new theoretical framework for the reviewed state‐of‐the‐art research
on collective narcissism—the belief that the ingroup's exceptionality is not sufficiently …

Collective narcissism and its social consequences: The bad and the ugly

A Golec de Zavala, D Lantos - Current Directions in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Collective narcissism is a belief that one's own group (the in-group) is exceptional but not
sufficiently recognized by others. It is the form of “in-group love” robustly associated with “out …

[HTML][HTML] Low self-esteem predicts out-group derogation via collective narcissism, but this relationship is obscured by in-group satisfaction.

A Golec de Zavala, CM Federico… - Journal of Personality …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
According to social identity theory, low self-esteem motivates group members to derogate
out-groups, thus achieving positive in-group distinctiveness and boosting self-esteem …

An experimental approach to intergroup threat theory: Manipulations, moderators, and consequences of realistic vs. symbolic threat

K Rios, N Sosa, H Osborn - European Review of Social Psychology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT According to Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra, & Rios, 2015),
perceived threats from outgroups can be categorised into realistic threats (to the ingroup's …

Authoritarians and “revolutionaries in reverse”: Why collective narcissism threatens democracy

A Golec de Zavala - Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Collective narcissism is a belief that the ingroup deserves but is denied special treatment
and recognition. It is a projection of the narcissistic need to be recognized as better than …

Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis

A Golec de Zavala, CM Federico - European Journal of Social …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Populism and the affective politics of humiliation narratives

A Homolar, G Löfflmann - Global Studies Quarterly, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Populist political agents from the right of the political spectrum tell visceral stories of
insecurity—from countries overrun by criminal migrants to warnings of impending economic …

The anti-social triad of grievance politics: An integrated model of reactionism, ressentiment, and collective narcissism

T Capelos, M Salmela, GB Sullivan… - American behavioral …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we undertake a comprehensive examination of reactionism, ressentiment, and
collective narcissism, collectively termed as the “anti-social triad of grievance politics.” …