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Rebel with a Cause: Personal Significance from Political Activism Predicts Willingness to Self-Sacrifice
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This article is published in Journal of Social Issues.The article was published on 2019-03-01. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sacrifice.read more
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Social context moderates the effects of quest for significance on violent extremism.
Katarzyna Jasko,David Webber,Arie W. Kruglanski,Michele J. Gelfand,Muh Taufiqurrohman,Malkanthi Hettiarachchi,Rohan Gunaratna +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence is found that radical social contexts strengthen the link between quest for significance-particularly collective significance-and support for political violence.
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The Invisible Hand is an Ideology: Toward a Social Psychology of Neoliberalism
Karim Bettache,Chi-Yue Chiu +1 more
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The Morality of “new” CEO Activism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the recent upsurge in CEO activism by juxtaposing it against broader social activism, identifying its distinctive characteristics, and empirically examining two recent ‘moral episodes': the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Fetal Heartbeat Acts (FHAs).
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Significance-Quest Theory
Arie W. Kruglanski,Erica Molinario,Katarzyna Jasko,David Webber,N. Pontus Leander,Antonio Pierro +5 more
TL;DR: The significance-quest theory as mentioned in this paper assumes that the need for significance is universal, whereas the means of satisfying it depend on the sociocultural context in which one's values are embedded.
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Ideologies that justify political violence
TL;DR: The authors identify a variety of tactics that are often employed by ideologies to promote and/or justify political violence and discuss two broad variants of ideology (religious and conservative) that should be particularly apt at implementing these tactics.
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The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory
TL;DR: A review of the research supporting the existence of a need for self-esteem can be found in this article, where a theory that accounts for this need and specifies the role it plays in a variety of phenomena including self-presentation is presented.
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Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives
TL;DR: Results showed the importance of social identity in predicting collective action by supporting SIMCA's key predictions that affective injustice and politicized identity produced stronger effects than those of non-affective injustice and non-politicized identity.
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The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that the vast majority of attempts to hit the ball would result in "making an out" and thus pose a potential threat to the player's sense of personal worth and social regard.
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Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review.
TL;DR: Terror management theory (TMT) is compared with other explanations for why people need self-esteem, and a critique of the most prominent of these, sociometer theory, is provided.
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Prejudice as self-image maintenance: Affirming the self through derogating others
Steven Fein,Steven J. Spencer +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that when individuals evaluated a member of a stereotyped group, they were less likely to evaluate that person negatively if their self-images had been bolstered through a self-affirmation procedure, and they were more likely to assess that person stereotypically if their own self-image had been threatened by negative feedback.