Vasilopoulos, Pavlos orcid.org/0000-0002-1626-3150 and Brouard, Sylvain (2020) System Justification and Affective Responses to Terrorism:Evidence from the November 2015 Paris Attacks. Political Psychology. pp. 569-586. ISSN 0162-895X
Abstract
A large stream of research has shown that emotional reactions have a powerful impact on political choices and decision-making processes. Yet little is known about individual-level differences in experiencing specific emotions in the light of threatening events. In this article, we argue that system justification, or the endorsement and bolstering of existing social and political arrangements, is positively associated with the experience of positive emotions and negatively associated with the experience of negative emotions in the light of threat. We test our hypotheses using a study conducted a few days after the November 13, 2015, Paris terror attacks on a large sample in France. Our results show that system justification was positively associated with experiencing hope in the light of the attacks and negatively associated with experiencing fear and anger. Moreover, the size of these effects exceeded the respective size of other psychological characteristics such as authoritarianism, conservatism, and national attachment. These findings extend research on the palliative function of system justification to the domain of emotional responses to terrorist shocks.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 International Society of Political Psychology. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | emotions,personality,system justification,terrorism |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2019 16:50 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:26 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12639 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/pops.12639 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153158 |
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