‘This country is OURS’: the exclusionary potential of collective psychological ownership
‘This country is OURS’: the exclusionary potential of collective psychological ownership
Political campaign slogans, such as ‘Take back control of our country’ (United Kingdom Independence Party) and ‘The Netherlands ours again’ (Dutch Party for Freedom), indicate that right‐wing populism appeals to the belief that the country is ‘ours’, and therefore, ‘we’ have the exclusive right to determine what happens. We examined this sense of ownership of the country (i.e. collective psychological ownership [CPO]) with the related determination right in relation to exclusionary attitudes and voting behaviour. Among Dutch (Study 1, N = 572) and British (Study 2, N = 495) participants, we found that CPO explained anti‐immigrant and anti‐EU attitudes, and these attitudes in turn accounted for voting ‘leave’ in the 2016 Brexit referendum in the British sample (Study 2). Additionally, CPO was more strongly related to negative immigrant attitudes among right‐wing Dutch participants, whereas it was more strongly related to negative EU attitudes and voting ‘leave’ among left‐wing British participants. CPO contributes to the understanding of critical contemporary social attitudes and political behaviour.
Brexit referendum, anti-EU attitudes, anti-immigrant attitudes, collective psychological ownership, exclusive determination right
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Nijs, T
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Martinovic, B
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Verkuyten, M
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Nijs, T
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Martinovic, B
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Verkuyten, M
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Nijs, T, Martinovic, B, Verkuyten, M and Sedikides, Constantine
(2021)
‘This country is OURS’: the exclusionary potential of collective psychological ownership.
British Journal of Social Psychology, 60 (1), , [e12386].
(doi:10.1111/bjso.12386).
Abstract
Political campaign slogans, such as ‘Take back control of our country’ (United Kingdom Independence Party) and ‘The Netherlands ours again’ (Dutch Party for Freedom), indicate that right‐wing populism appeals to the belief that the country is ‘ours’, and therefore, ‘we’ have the exclusive right to determine what happens. We examined this sense of ownership of the country (i.e. collective psychological ownership [CPO]) with the related determination right in relation to exclusionary attitudes and voting behaviour. Among Dutch (Study 1, N = 572) and British (Study 2, N = 495) participants, we found that CPO explained anti‐immigrant and anti‐EU attitudes, and these attitudes in turn accounted for voting ‘leave’ in the 2016 Brexit referendum in the British sample (Study 2). Additionally, CPO was more strongly related to negative immigrant attitudes among right‐wing Dutch participants, whereas it was more strongly related to negative EU attitudes and voting ‘leave’ among left‐wing British participants. CPO contributes to the understanding of critical contemporary social attitudes and political behaviour.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 June 2020
Published date: January 2021
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This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 715842) awarded to the second author.
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Brexit referendum, anti-EU attitudes, anti-immigrant attitudes, collective psychological ownership, exclusive determination right
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