Von Mohr, M;
Hackenburg, K;
Tanzer, M;
Fotopoulou, A;
Campbell, C;
Tsakiris, M;
(2024)
A leader i can(not) trust: Understanding the path from epistemic trust to political leader choices via dogmatism.
Politics and the Life Sciences
10.1017/pls.2024.11.
(In press).
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Abstract
There is growing concern about the impact of declining political trust on democracies. Psychological research has introduced the concept of epistemic (mis)trust as a stable disposition acquired through development, which may influence our sociopolitical engagement. Given trust's prominence in current politics, we examined the relationship between epistemic trust and people's choices of (un)trustworthy political leaders. In two representative samples in the UK and US (N = 1096), we tested whether epistemic trust predicts political leader choices through three political dimensions: dogmatism, political trust, and ideology. Although epistemic trust did not directly predict choices of political leaders, it predicted dogmatism and political ideology, which in turn predicted choices of political leaders. A network analysis revealed that epistemic trust and political dimensions only interact through their common connection with dogmatism. These findings suggest that cognitive and affective development may underlie an individual's political ideology and associated beliefs.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A leader i can(not) trust: Understanding the path from epistemic trust to political leader choices via dogmatism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/pls.2024.11 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2024.11 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original article is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained prior to any commercial use. |
| Keywords: | Epistemic trust; political ideology; dogmatism; political trust; authoritarian leader |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204900 |
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