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 …

Drawing on both classic and current approaches, I propose a theory that integrates
motivation, personality, and development within one framework, using a common set of …

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been
exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own …

A meta-analysis by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway (2003) suggested that existential
needs to reduce threat were associated with political conservatism. Nevertheless, some …

Early theorists assumed that sociopolitical or ideological attitudes were organized along a
single left‐right dimension and directly expressed a basic personality dimension. Empirical …

Despite a substantial literature examining personality, prejudice, and related constructs such
as Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), there have …

Recent research and theorizing suggest that desires for group–based dominance underpin
biases towards both human outgroups and (non–human) animals. A systematic study of the …

There have been two broad approaches to how sociopolitical or ideological attitudes are
structured. The more traditional unidimensional approach sees ideological attitudes as …

We synthesized and meta-analyzed 73 studies (N= 71,895) examining the associations
between Big-Five personality and single-item self-placement measures of political …

A meta-analysis of 46 studies (N= 12,939) examined the cross-sectional associations
between dangerous worldview and Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), and between …