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Political protest in the Trump era
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Political protest in the Trump era
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Lee
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Lee Jussim
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Sanchez
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Diana
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Diana Sanchez
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David Wilder
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Rutgers University
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The United States has experienced a wave of political protest action since the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The present study investigated possible psychological motivators for this protest action by liberals and moderates. The potential motivators included perceived moral violations by the president, protesters’ social identity (defined as political ideology), opposition to the president’s political policies, perceiving the president as having many character failings, and dislike of the president. The study employed a survey measuring political protest activity, as well as measures capturing all the hypothesized predictors. Data was collected from two samples, university undergraduates and Mechanical Turk workers, and analyzed together as one combined sample. Results revealed that protest behavior since the election was predicted by perceived individualizing moral violations by President Trump, and included an interaction between individualizing moral violations and individualizing moral foundations, such that protest was highest when both violations and foundations were also high. In addition, protest behavior was predicted by perceived binding moral violations by President Trump, and by perceived economic/government liberty moral violations by President Trump. Further, protesters’ social identity (political ideology), and opposition to President Trump’s policies also predicted protest behavior. Finally, protest was also predicted by perceived character failings of President Trump, and by dislike of President Trump. Altogether, these results suggest that protest activism is predicted by dissatisfaction with the president in moral and policy realms, as well as a general dislike of him and concerns about his character. It is possible that protest activism is triggered when people encounter a vast array of aversive actions and qualities (real or perceived) in their current leader. In addition, although this study was restricted to protesters who were liberals and moderates, it is possible that these findings would generalize to protesters of any political ideology.
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Psychology
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Protest movements -- United States -- 21st century
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Motivation (Psychology)
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M.S.
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by Akeela Careem
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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