{"id":4075,"date":"2022-04-28T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:14:02","slug":"poor-us-how-collective-narcissism-powers-trump-and-putins-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2022\/04\/28\/poor-us-how-collective-narcissism-powers-trump-and-putins-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor us: how collective narcissism powers Trump and Putin\u2019s supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Multiple studies over the past decade show that collective narcissism can predict people\u2019s voting intentions for populist movements. Aleksandra Cichocka research cited in this Open Democracy feature. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Individuals can feel narcissism for their group as well as themselves \u2013 and many politicians are succeeding by playing to those feelings.&#8217; reads this piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/about\/\">OpenDemocracy<\/a> citing research conducted by Kent researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/219\/cichocka-aleksandra\">Dr Aleksandra Cichocka<\/a>. Cichocka was one of a team of researchers alongside Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Roy Eidelson and Nuwan Jayawickreme who set out to quantify how an individual satisfies his own narcissism by belonging to and identifying himself with a larger group.<\/p>\n<p>The research paper <a title=\"record title\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.apa.org\/record\/2009-22579-005?doi=1\" aria-label=\"record title\">Collective narcissism and its social consequences <\/a>adapted the most widely-used measure of individual narcissism, but adjusted each term to describe an individual\u2019s feelings for their group to measure collective narcissism using the following statements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On a scale of 1 (\u201cI strongly disagree\u201d) to 6 (\u201cI strongly agree\u201d) rate the following statements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I insist upon my group getting the respect that is due to it<\/li>\n<li>If my group had a major say in the world, the world would be a much better place.<\/li>\n<li>I wish other groups would more quickly recognise the authority of my group.<\/li>\n<li>The true worth of my group is often misunderstood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scale can be applied to any group. You can use it to measure people\u2019s attitudes to their university or their football club. Given its obvious political significance, however, much of the work has focused on people\u2019s beliefs about their country.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe narcissistic craving for recognition can turn into aggression and rivalry, especially when people are threatened,\u201d says Cichocka, who is a reader in political psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in the UK.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/collective-narcissism-psychology-covid-politics\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple studies over the past decade show that collective narcissism can predict people\u2019s voting intentions for populist movements. Aleksandra Cichocka research cited in this Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2022\/04\/28\/poor-us-how-collective-narcissism-powers-trump-and-putins-supporters\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1029,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}