The Paradox of the Tribal Equalitarian

Conway, Lucian Gideon; Zubrod, Alivia; Chan, Linus

doi:10.1080/1047840x.2020.1722018

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“…In this article we present three studies that cumulatively provide insights into the character, cohesion, and clout of "tribal equalitarianism" (Clark & Winegard, 2020;Conway III, Zubrod, et al, 2020) in popular discourse, which we argue exhibits signatures suggestive of LWA and "binding" moral foundations of the sort normally associated with RWA. This tribal equalitarian discourse appears to be informed in large part by ideologies that fit broadly under the umbrella of "critical theory."…”

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“…Tribal Equalitarianism Some of the worldview assumptions behind more authoritarian forms of left-wing political philosophy have recently been described as "tribal equalitarianism" (Conway III, Zubrod, et al, 2020). This worldview may appear paradoxical, or even oxymoronic, since "tribalism" (thinking one's own group is better than others) and "equalitarianism" (a tendency to minimize group differences) seem to be contradictory.…”

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The Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse

Lane¹,

McCaffree

Shults

2023

J. Cogn. Cult.

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Left-wing authoritarianism remains far less understood than right-wing authoritarianism. We contribute to literature on the former, which typically relies on surveys, using a new social media analytic approach. We use a list of 60 terms to provide an exploratory sketch of the outlines of a political ideology – tribal equalitarianism – with origins in 19th and 20th century social philosophy. We then use analyses of the English Corpus of Google Books (n > 8 million books) and scraped unique tweets from Twitter (n = 202,582) to conduct a series of investigations to discern the extent to which this ideology is cohesive amongst the public, reveals signatures of authoritarianism and has been growing in popularity. Though exploratory, our results provide some evidence of left-wing authoritarianism in two forms: (1) a uniquely conservative signature amongst ostensible liberals using measures derived from Moral Foundations Theory and (2) a substantial prevalence of anger, relative to anxiety or sadness, in tweets analyzed for sentiment. In general, results indicate that this worldview is growing in popularity, is increasingly cohesive, and shows signatures of authoritarianism.

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The Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse

Lane¹,

McCaffree

Shults

2023

J. Cogn. Cult.

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The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms

Conway

McFarland

Costello

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J Theo Social Psycho

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Left-Wing Authoritarianism (LWA) has a controversial history in psychology. Some researchers have expressed skepticism about the existence of LWA, whereas others have argued that LWA is a valid construct. In the present article, we offer a framework to reconcile these two perspectives by proposing that ideologically-based authoritarian norms are sometimes in conflict with the processes that create authoritarian individuals.In Western political contexts, authoritarian norms are more likely to occur on the conservative side of the political spectrum; but authoritarian persons can occur in both conservatives and liberals. In our model, left-wing authoritarians thus often occupy the space where forces influencing authoritarianism are in conflict. We review existing evidence related to the model, derive four hypotheses from the model, and discuss criteria for falsifying the model. We conclude by considering the model's place in current research on the complexities of ideology.

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Why are conservatives less concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) than liberals? Comparing political, experiential, and partisan messaging explanations

Conway

Woodard

Zubrod

et al. 2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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Given research revealing conservatives are more sensitive to disease threat, it is curious that U.S. conservatives were less concerned than liberals with the COVID-19 pandemic. Across four studies that spanned almost ten months throughout the pandemic, we evaluated three potential reasons why conservatives were less concerned: (1) Motivated Political reasons (conservatives held COVID-specific political beliefs that motivated them to reduce concern), (2) Experiential reasons (conservatives were less directly affected by the outbreak than liberals), and (3) Conservative Messaging reasons (differential exposure to/trust in partisan conservative messaging). All four studies consistently showed evidence that political (and not experiential or partisan messaging) reasons more strongly mediated conservatives' lack of concern for COVID-19. Additional analyses further suggested that while they did not serve as strong mediators, experiential factors provided a boundary condition for the conservatism➔perceived threat relationship. These data on over 3000 participants are consistent with a new model of the ideology-disease outbreak interface that can be applied to both the ongoing pandemic and future disease outbreaks.

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The Paradox of the Tribal Equalitarian

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

The Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse

The Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse

The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms

Why are conservatives less concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) than liberals? Comparing political, experiential, and partisan messaging explanations

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