ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Bowling with Trump: Economic Anxiety, Racial Identification, and Well-Being in the 2016 Presidential Election

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Social Psychology

  • Robert Breunig
    Australian National University
  • Mark Fabian
    University of Cambridge

Abstract

We provide empirical evidence from a sample of representative sample of 470 000 that worldview defence and the basic psychological need for relatedness provide an explanation for why racial identification became politically salient in the 2016 Presidential Election.

Politics