About this Research Topic
A wealth of research has elucidated diverse mechanisms through which ideologies provide palliative comfort, such as minimizing perceptions of ingroup grievances, enhancing a sense of control, boosting perceived social connectedness, or believing that social mobility is a likely outcome. However, despite these significant advances, there remains a pressing need for further inquiry to deepen our understanding of these mechanisms, or even unfold other ideology-based palliative means that are yet to be discovered.
To these ends, this Research Topic aims to showcase psychological theory and research that advances knowledge of dispositional and/or situational conditions that allow ideologies to exercise their effects on wellbeing.
Specifically, this Research Topic welcomes contributions covering, but not limited to, the following themes:
• The role of emotional regulation in ideological phenomena.
• Attributional paths involved in the palliative effect of ideology.
• Individual differences in the palliative effect.
• Local stereotypes that confer palliative comfort.
• Culture-specific “palliative myths” that allow rationalizing inequality.
• Intercultural comparisons on the palliative effect of ideology.
• Cognitive processes involved in the influence ideology has on wellbeing.
• Group-specific palliative processes.
• Distinguishing psychological benefits of system-justifying ideologies for high-status and low-status groups.
• Qualitative approaches to the palliative effect of ideology.
• Novel experimental evidence on palliative mechanisms.
• Longitudinal dynamics of the palliative effect of ideology.
Keywords: Palliative effect, ideology, system justification, soporiphic effect, psychological wellbeing
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