TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election
T2 - A longitudinal analysis
AU - Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka
AU - Federico, Christopher M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - collective narcissism
KW - conspiracy thinking
KW - presidential campaign
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U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.2496
DO - 10.1002/ejsp.2496
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052394917
SN - 0046-2772
VL - 48
SP - 1011
EP - 1018
JO - European Journal of Social Psychology
JF - European Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 7
ER -