{"id":330,"date":"2025-04-30T04:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/why-some-people-follow-authoritarian-leaders-and-the-key-to-stopping-it-scientific-american\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T04:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:51:25","slug":"why-some-people-follow-authoritarian-leaders-and-the-key-to-stopping-it-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/why-some-people-follow-authoritarian-leaders-and-the-key-to-stopping-it-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some People Follow Authoritarian Leaders\u2014And The Key to Stopping It | Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Low levels of openness to experience and high levels of conscientiousness, coupled with an insecure and threatening environment, lead people to chronically view the world as a dangerous and threatening place. When we think that the world is unstable and unsafe, we search for ways to regain control. Unfortunately for our democratic institutions, placing trust in a dictator and becoming an authoritarian follower is one way to reestablish a sense of control.<\/p>\n<p>Far-right politics seem to appeal to authoritarian followers\u2019 desire to regain stability and extinguish perceived threats.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-some-people-follow-authoritarian-leaders-and-the-key-to-stopping-it\/\">www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-some-people-follow-authoritarian-leaders-and-the-key-to-stopping-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low levels of openness to experience and high levels of conscientiousness, coupled with an insecure and threatening environment, lead people to chronically view the world as a dangerous and threatening place. When we think that the world is unstable and unsafe, we search for ways to regain control. Unfortunately for our democratic institutions, placing trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}