Abstract
Explaining support for Donald Trump's presidential candidacy has become a key social-science challenge. An emerging literature highlights several important individual-level precursors of Trump support, including racial attitudes, sexism, and authoritarianism. In this report, we provide evidence for the role of a novel psychological factor: collective narcissism, an inflated, unrealistic view of the national ingroup's greatness contingent on external recognition. Using data from a recent national survey, we demonstrate that collective narcissism is a powerful predictor of 2016 presidential votes and evaluations of Trump, even after controlling for other variables known to predict candidate preferences in general and Trump support in particular.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 110-121 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Public Opinion Quarterly |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 6 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
