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Paper: Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, Jost et al. Psychological Bulletin, 2003, Vol. 129, No. 3, 339–375

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Original paper[1]


Conservatism is defines as “resistance to change and the tendency to prefer safe, traditional and conventional forms of institutions and behaviour” [2] and also in a test scale, it put stress on uncertnty avoidance and political refernces[3].

Growing evidence that situational factors influence the experience and expression of conservatism[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

System instability and other threatening circumstances should also increase conservative tendencies in the population as a whole[11][12][13][14][15][16]

Refernces

  1. ↑ Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, Jost et al. Psychological Bulletin, 2003, Vol. 129, No. 3, 339–375
  2. ↑ Wilson, G. D. (Ed.). (1973). The psychology of conservatism. London: Academic Press
  3. ↑ Wilson, G. D., & Patterson, J. R. (1968). A new measure of conservatism. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 8, 264–269.
  4. ↑ Crowe, E., & Higgins, E. T. (1997). Regulatory focus and strategic inclinations: Promotion and prevention in decision-making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 69, 117–132.
  5. ↑ Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Rosenblatt, A., Veeder, M., Kirkland, S., & Lyon, D. (1990). Evidence for terror management theory: II. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 308–318.
  6. ↑ *Jost, J. T., Kruglanski, A. W., & Simon, L. (1999). Effects of epistemic motivation on conservatism, intolerance, and other system justifying attitudes. In L. Thompson, D. M. Messick, & J. M. Levine (Eds.), Shared cognition in organizations: The management of knowledge (pp.91–116). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  7. ↑ Kruglanski, A. W., & Webster, D. M. (1991). Group members’ reactions to opinion deviates and conformists at varying degrees of proximity to decision deadline and of environmental noise. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 215–225.
  8. ↑ Sales, S. M., & Friend, K. E. (1973). Success and failure as determinants of level of authoritarianism. Behavioral Science, 18, 163–172.
  9. ↑ Sulloway, F. J. (1996). Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives. New York: Pantheon.
  10. ↑ Sulloway, F. J. (2001). Birth order, sibling competition, and human behavior. In H. R. Holcomb III (Ed.), Conceptual challenges in evolutionary psychology: Innovative research strategies (pp. 39–83). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
  11. ↑ Fromm, E. (1941). Escape from freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
  12. ↑ McCann, S. J. H. (1997). Threatening times, “strong” presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824–1964. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 160–170.
  13. ↑ Reich, W. (1970). The mass psychology of fascism (V. R. Carfagno, Trans.). New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. (Original work published 1946)
  14. ↑ *Sales, S. M. (1972). Economic threat as a determinant of conversion rates in authoritarian and nonauthoritarian churches. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 23, 420–428
  15. ↑ Sales, S. M. (1973). Threat as a factor in authoritarianism: An analysis of archival data. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 28, 44–57.
  16. ↑ Sanford, N. (1966). Self and society: Social change and individual development. New York: Atherton Press.
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