Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest.
This research examines how the relationship between passion for an ideology and violent activism is magnified by the personal (vs. collective) loss of significance. In Study 1 (N = 238), the relationship between obsessive (but not harmonious) passion for the Republican Party and violent activism was...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 113; no. 4; pp. 917 - 938 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2022
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