Political psychology perspectives on populism
In: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
1 Introduction -- Part I Transcultural Comparative Analyses -- 2 Political and Psychological Processes Contributing to European Populisms of the Left and Right -- 3 The Inner Logic: An Intergroup Approach to the Populist Mentality in Europe -- Part II Psychosocial Constructs in Action -- 4 COVID-19 Threat and Populism: The Mediated Effect of Epistemic and Significance Motivations -- 5 Conspiracy Ideation and Political Populism -- 6 Populist Thin Ideology: From a Theoretical Conceptualisation to the Development of a New Scale -- Part III The Italian Case -- 7 This is not the End. How the Appeal of Populism Changed Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 8 Representations of Populism, Pandemic, and War among Italian Citizens of Different Political Orientations. A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis of their Associative Productions (2019-2022) -- Part IV Populist Communication in the Blogsphere -- 9 Italian populist leaders and their followers on Facebook (2019-2022). Representational fields and empirical evidence from a psycho-social linguistic perspective -- 10 Double Bind or Political Advantage? The Negotiation of Womanhood in the Online Discourse of Female Right-Wing Populist Politicians -- 11 Concluding remarks.