Considerable progress has been made in the field of leadership in recent years. However,
we argue that this is undermined by a strong residual commitment to an older set of ideas …

Highlights•Populist movements tap into key psychological needs for belonging and
status.•Intergroup dynamics are at the core of how voters categorise the political …

Populists combine anti-elitism with a conviction that they hold a superior vision of what it
means to be a true citizen of their nation. We expected support for populism to be associated …

This article proposes a new theoretical framework for the reviewed state‐of‐the‐art research
on collective narcissism—the belief that the ingroup's exceptionality is not sufficiently …

No one factor describes Trump's supporters. But an array of factors–many of them reflecting
five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary …

Emotions are prevalent in the rhetoric of populist politicians and among their electorate. We
argue that partially dissimilar emotional processes may be driving right-and left-wing …

Right‐wing populism has gained ground in Europe in recent years, with the greatest support
among rural communities. Yet the European countryside remains largely overlooked in …

Populists are often described as using a more aggressive, offensive, and anxiety-fuelled
rhetoric than non-populists. Yet, little systematic evidence exists that this is the case. This …

Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members
and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic …

Research on national collective narcissism, the belief and resentment that a nation's
exceptionality is not sufficiently recognized by others, provides a theoretical framework for …