ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2021
The Association Between Threat and Politics Depends on the Type of Threat, the Political Domain, and the Country.
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- Fight, Flight, or Vote Right? A Systematic Review of Threat Sensitivity in Political Conservatism.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Taking Stock and Looking Forward to the Future of Pathogen Politics in Light of New Insights and Recommendations: COVID-19 Threat Was Meaningfully Associated With Support for Liberal Policies in the United States.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2025Article
- Mixture Multilevel SEM vs. Multilevel SEM for comparing structural relations across groups in presence of measurement non-invariance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Do Personality Traits Predict Voter Attitudes When Politics Is Structured Around Conflict? Lessons from Israel.Public opinion quarterly · 2025Article
- Political Attitudes and Disease Threat: Regional Pathogen Stress Is Associated With Conservative Ideology Only for Older Individuals.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024Article
- Economic Threats, Political and National Identification Predict Affective Polarization: Longitudinal Evidence From Spain.International review of social psychology · 2024Article
- Trust in scientific information mediates associations between conservatism and coronavirus responses in the U.S., but few other nations.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Theories link threat with right-wing political beliefs. We use the World Values Survey (60,378 participants) to explore how six types of threat (e.g., economic, violence, and surveillance) are associated with multiple political beliefs (e.g., cultural, economic, and ideological identification) in 56 countries/territories. Multilevel models with individuals nested in countries revealed that the threat-political belief association depends on the type of threat, the type of political belief, and the country. Economic-related threats tended to be associated with more left-wing economic political beliefs and violence-related threats tended to be associated with more cultural right-wing beliefs, but there were exceptions to this pattern. Additional analyses revealed that the associations between threat and political beliefs were different across countries. However, our analyses identified few country characteristics that could account for these cross-country differences. Our findings revealed that political beliefs and perceptions of threat are linked, but that the relationship is not simple.
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