We will rescue Italy, but we dislike the European Union: Collective narcissism and the COVID-19 threat

Żemojtel‐Piotrowska, Magdalena; Piotrowski, Jarosław; Sawicki, A.; Jonason, Peter K.

doi:10.1177/13684302211002923

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“…There is some evidence that collective narcissism (i.e. the inflated belief in the greatness of one’s ingroup, De Zavala et al, 2009 ) predicts the belief and dissemination of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 ( Nowak et al, 2020 ; Sternisko et al, 2020 ; Żemojtel-Piotrowska et al, 2021 ). Sternisko et al (2020) interpreted their finding in ways that people high in collective narcissism are drawn to conspiratorial thinking because the COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to their social or political identity.…”

Section: Psychological Underpinnings Of Pandemic Denialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rothmund

Ziemer²

2022

Public Underst Sci

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We investigated pandemic denial in the general public in Germany after the first wave of COVID-19 in May 2020. Using latent class analysis, we compared patterns of disagreement with claims about (a) the origin, spread, or infectiousness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and (b) the personal risk from COVID-19 between scientific laypersons ( N = 1,575) and scientific experts ( N = 128). Two groups in the general public differed distinctively from expert evaluations. The Dismissive (8%) are characterized by low-risk assessment, low compliance with containment measures, and mistrust in politicians. The Doubtful (19%) are characterized by low cognitive reflection, high uncertainty in the distinction between true and false claims, and high social media intake. Our research indicates that pandemic denial cannot be linked to a single and distinct pattern of psychological dispositions but involves different subgroups within the general population that share high COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and low beliefs in epistemic complexity.

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Section: Psychological Underpinnings Of Pandemic Denialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rothmund

Ziemer²

2022

Public Underst Sci

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“…This behavior may serve to see the world more predictable by avoiding the uncertainty of politics in the country (Stewart et al., 2019). Significant relationships were also observed between the COVID‐19 outbreak and outgroup derogation in different samples (e.g., Van Assche et al., 2020; Żemojtel‐Piotrowska et al., 2021).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical‐intuitive thinking and detecting fake news

Çoksan,

Yilmaz

2023

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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This study aims to reveal the fake news content in the context of the social identity approach and to examine the mediating role of perceived outgroup on the association between ingroup identification and detecting fake news blaming ingroup, outgroup, or fictional groups. Study 1 found that fake news could be gathered under six themes: contacted‐outgroup blaming, represented‐outgroup blaming, outgroup derogation, outgroup appreciation, ingroup glorification, and phantom‐mastermind blaming. In preregistered Study 2 with representative non‐weird participants (N = 216), we examined the mediating role of perceived outgroup threat on the association between ingroup identification and detecting fake news revealed in Study 1. Perceived outgroup threat was only mediating for detecting outgroup‐blaming fake news when intuitive and analytical thinking styles were controlled. Detecting ingroup‐blaming fake news was associated with ingroup identification. Analytical thinking predicted only detecting phantom‐mastermind‐blaming fake news. Findings demonstrated that the contents of fake news play a vital role in detecting them, and variables pointing to content (i.e., ingroup identification for ingroup‐blaming fake news, and perceived outgroup threat for outgroup‐blaming fake news) are predictive for detecting fake news.

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“…In this process, network actors shifted their orientation from “individual” towards a “collective” in pursuit of a common goal or goal congruence. “Unity under threat” is an effect documented in other social units such as the behavior of individuals to identity threats (Flade et al ., 2019), organizations' response to environmental threats (Chattopadhyay et al ., 2001) or nations' response to a crisis, such as COVID-19 (Zemojtel-Piotrowska et al ., 2021), while this work documents it at a network level. Resource imbalance in the supply chains was the third network formation driving factor, which was caused by disruptions to supply, demand and labor availability.…”

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Supply networks for extreme uncertainty: a resource orchestration perspective

Skipworth

Bastl²,

Cerruti³

et al. 2023

IJOPM

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PurposeDisasters are growing in frequency and scale, unmasking the systemic vulnerabilities of modern supply chains and highlighting the need to understand how to respond to such events. In the context of an extreme event such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this research focuses on how networks of organizations leverage their combined resources and capabilities to develop, manufacture and deliver new products outside their traditional markets.Design/methodology/approachFollowing a theory elaboration process, the authors build on resource orchestration theory to develop data collection and analysis protocols to support a multi-case study research design. This research investigates four cases of newly formed networks that emerged in four different countries – Colombia, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom–in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThese four networks in the investigation share common characteristics in terms of motivation and approach, creating patterns from which theoretical generalizations are developed into a series of propositions regarding the process of network-level resource orchestration under extreme uncertainty.Practical implicationsThe research shows how networks and the organizations within them can streamline processes, swiftly build new relationships and develop a balanced risk management approach to extreme uncertainty.Originality/valueThis research contributes to theory by extending the resource orchestration model to a network level and showing how extreme uncertainty can lead to the emergence of networks and alter the motivations and goals of the member organizations, allowing them to be more responsive.

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We will rescue Italy, but we dislike the European Union: Collective narcissism and the COVID-19 threat

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic

Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical‐intuitive thinking and detecting fake news

Supply networks for extreme uncertainty: a resource orchestration perspective

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