Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2023 Mar;49(3):447-459. doi: 10.1177/01461672211070923. Epub 2022 Feb 3.
The authoritarianism literature is divided over whether perceived threats to normative social order (sociotropic threats) or threats to the individual's well-being (personal threats) activate authoritarian predispositions. In addition, while some approaches claim that perceived threats primarily trigger those high in authoritarianism, others claim that those who are low in authoritarianism are more sensitive to threats. Given the centrality of authoritarianism and threat on support for extraordinary policies in the context of COVID-19, this article sought to test to what extent different types of threats moderated the effect of authoritarianism on support for tough law and order policies and harsh punishments to contain the spread of coronavirus. Data from two preregistered survey experiments indicates that those high in authoritarianism were more willing to support tough law and order policies when primed with sociotropic threats while those low in authoritarianism became more willing to support such policies when primed with personal threats.
威权主义文献对于规范性社会秩序受到威胁（社会威胁）还是个人福祉受到威胁（个人威胁）会激活威权倾向存在分歧。此外，虽然一些方法声称感知到的威胁主要引发那些威权主义程度高的人，另一些则声称威权主义程度低的人对威胁更敏感。鉴于威权主义和威胁在 COVID-19 背景下对支持特殊政策的重要性，本文试图检验不同类型的威胁在多大程度上缓和了威权主义对支持强硬法律和秩序政策以及严厉惩罚以遏制冠状病毒传播的影响。来自两个预先注册的调查实验的数据表明，当受到社会威胁时，威权主义程度高的人更愿意支持强硬的法律和秩序政策，而当受到个人威胁时，威权主义程度低的人则更愿意支持这些政策。
