Bring back my Barry to me: nostalgia for Barack Obama and political outcomes
Bring back my Barry to me: nostalgia for Barack Obama and political outcomes
The 2016 election of President Donald Trump left over half of the United States’ electorate reeling. This contributed to nostalgia for the days of Barack Obama (and his administration), even among some conservatives and Republicans. We hypothesized that individual differences in nostalgia for Barack Obama would predict outcomes in the political arena. Consistent with the hypothesis, in three studies (N = 904), Obama nostalgia predicted negative attitudes toward the Trump presidency, stronger political engagement intentions and voting intentions, and actual political engagement, above and beyond competing predictors (i.e., political ideology, prior support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, voting behavior in 2016). The findings reinforce the role of nostalgia for a politician or political administration as an influential predictor of political outcomes. We discuss implications and future research directions.
nostalgia, Motivation, political attitudes, Political behaviour, voting
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Fetterman, A.K.
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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1 October 2021
Fetterman, A.K.
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Fetterman, A.K., Wildschut, Tim and Sedikides, Constantine
(2021)
Bring back my Barry to me: nostalgia for Barack Obama and political outcomes.
Personality and Individual Differences, 180, , [110979].
(doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110979).
Abstract
The 2016 election of President Donald Trump left over half of the United States’ electorate reeling. This contributed to nostalgia for the days of Barack Obama (and his administration), even among some conservatives and Republicans. We hypothesized that individual differences in nostalgia for Barack Obama would predict outcomes in the political arena. Consistent with the hypothesis, in three studies (N = 904), Obama nostalgia predicted negative attitudes toward the Trump presidency, stronger political engagement intentions and voting intentions, and actual political engagement, above and beyond competing predictors (i.e., political ideology, prior support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, voting behavior in 2016). The findings reinforce the role of nostalgia for a politician or political administration as an influential predictor of political outcomes. We discuss implications and future research directions.
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Fetterman et al., 2021, PAID
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 May 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 May 2021
Published date: 1 October 2021
Keywords:
nostalgia, Motivation, political attitudes, Political behaviour, voting
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449318
ISSN: 0191-8869
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