#1079 Christopher Federico: Political Preferences, Belief Systems, Collective Narcissism, & More
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Christopher Federico. He's professor of political science and psychology at the University of Minnesota. And today we're talking about political preferences, ideological belief systems, collective narcissism, conspiracy thinking. ideological uncertainty and some other related topics. So Doctor Federico, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Oh, thanks for having me. So
I would like to start here with the topic of political preferences. So when studying the foundations of political preferences, where do you start? I mean what factors do you look into? Well, to make sense of this, uh, you really need to look at two sets of factors. Uh one we generally refer to as bottom up factors. So these are really sort of characteristics of individuals, their psychological needs, traits, and motives. Uh, that might attract them to this or that political view. Uh, in some cases, these traits may stand in for other things we can observe. But uh at some level the basic ideas that are s they're characteristics that we hold as individuals, um, or that might reflect our immediate situations that sort of predispose people to gravitate toward this or that uh political identity or political preference. So that's one part of it. Uh another part of it is what you might call uh top down forces or top down variables. So these are things like the nature of the political culture.
that you live in, um, the groups that you are a part of in the political world, so say political parties and what have you. Uh, and in particular the role of what uh political scientists call political elites. So party leaders, intellectuals, media figures, pundits, and what have you that uh sort of model uh the packages of beliefs that make up this or that party's idea or a particular ideology. um as we might call it. Um And uh
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