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.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
-
SDG 5 Gender Equality
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Collective Narcissism and the 2016 US Presidential Vote'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Cite this
- APA
- Standard
- Harvard
- Vancouver
- Author
- BIBTEX
- RIS