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Conservatism as a situated identity: Implications for consumer behavior
Author(s) -
Oyserman Daphna,
Schwarz Norbert
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of consumer psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.433
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1532-7663
pISSN - 1057-7408
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcps.2017.08.003
Subject(s) - conservatism , ideology , identity (music) , situated , universality (dynamical systems) , psychology , social psychology , set (abstract data type) , value (mathematics) , predictive power , politics , personality , power (physics) , epistemology , sociology , computer science , political science , law , artificial intelligence , aesthetics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , programming language
Insufficient attention to political ideology as an organizing axis reduces predictive power. Jost (2017 – this issue) makes a significant contribution by outlining and documenting a set of relationships among personality factors, attitudes, values, and conservatism. The value of this approach is highlighting the possibility that ideology sticks when it fits features of the individual and hence has an enduring quality. This approach needs to be balanced by consideration of the power of the immediate situation to define what an identity means and the potential universality of many features associated with conservatism. We discuss both issues using identity‐based motivation theory as our organizing framework.