“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 30; no. 11; pp. 1625 - 1637
• Main Authors: Sprong, Stefanie, Jetten, Jolanda, Wang, Zhechen, Peters, Kim, Mols, Frank, Verkuyten, Maykel, Bastian, Brock, Ariyanto, Amarina, Autin, Frédérique, Ayub, Nadia, Badea, Constantina, Besta, Tomasz, Butera, Fabrizio, Costa-Lopes, Rui, Cui, Lijuan, Fantini, Carole, Finchilescu, Gillian, Gaertner, Lowell, Gollwitzer, Mario, Gómez, Ángel, González, Roberto, Hong, Ying-Yi, Jensen, Dorthe Høj, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Karasawa, Minoru, Kessler, Thomas, Klein, Olivier, Lima, Marcus, Mégevand, Laura, Morton, Thomas, Paladino, Paola, Polya, Tibor, Renvik, Tuuli Anna, Ruza, Aleksejs, Shahrazad, Wan, Shama, Sushama, Smith, Heather J., Torres, Ana Raquel, van der Bles, Anne Marthe, Wohl, Michael J. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2019; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC; Association for Psychological Science
• Subjects: Anomie; Economic inequality; Health status; Humanities and Social Sciences; Inequality; Mental health; Social cohesion; preregistered; authoritarianism; populism; economic inequality; subjective and objective inequality; leadership; anomie; authoritarianis; economic inequa; subjective and

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 inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6...