How beautiful is this island paradise eh? Welcome to Puerto-Rico! There are very few reported Milgram replications in collectivist cultures and therefore I was pretty excited when I stumbled over this one by Steve (1971). The study was conducted in Puerto Rico which scores fairly low for IDV (27/100) and therefore can be called a…
Month: December 2017
The Sworn Virgins of Albania
This is Qamile Stema’s, this person is one of the last ‘Sworn Virgins of Albania’. In traditional Albanian culture, women have been allowed to give up their female identity and instead identify as men, often in order to support their families when their male counterparts have been died. Social identification means they adopt male behavioural…
Beware the demagogue!
Demagogues, also known as ‘rabble-rousers’, are political leaders who speak directly to people’s fear and insecurities, feeding the view of the world as a dangerous and threatening place; just the sort of views that Altemeyer (1981) has linked with the development of Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), an ideological attitude dimension which is heavily correlated with…
Authoritarianism alive and well
Still reeling from the Holocaust, Jewish immigrant Theodor Adorno (1950) was one of the first to make a concerted effort to understand receptivity to Fascist ideology. Understanding in this area has developed over the decades but with the rise of the Alt-Right and the sickening scenes in Charlottesville, USA, in August 2017, the importance of…
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