Political violence, epistemic trust and childhood study
Denis O'Keefe
Good afternoon, Clio community.
I am writing, with Paul's approval, with a somewhat embarrassing request for support. Myself and a research team of grad students at NYU are working on a project of psychohistorical interest. Typically, we would be looking for grant monies to support the project through normal funding streams at the University, but time is of the essence given the upcoming presidential election and the work required to collect and analyze data and a September deadline for publication. Not to mention a bureaucratic process in our program we seek to avoid.
We are currently in need of funds to acquire a sample large and diverse enough to test a model of political violence that attends to the interaction of childhood adversity (trauma) and resultant developmental deficiencies in reflective functioning, epistemic trust, tendency to externalize psychological conflicts, and authoritarian personality traits and support of populist political leaders and their violent policies. We calculate that each dollar raised will result in 1 additional participant in the study with every dollar going directly to acquiring our sample. Our goal is a sample of minimally 2,000, but ideally a more representative sample around 5,000. A short overview of the study is below. Please let us know if you have any questions (djo...@nyu.edu). Any little bit helps….and feel free to distribute this request to those who may be interested in our work.
Click on this link to donate https://gofund.me/f378fbcc
Collegially,
Denis O'Keefe
Study overview: The study includes cross-sectional survey data utilizing regression and conditional process analyses testing the following hypotheses:
In line with psychogenic and affect displacement models, we argue that the more childhood adversity, in the form of punitive, abusive parenting, the less likely one is to develop reflective capacities, and by consequence, epistemic trust. With this, a reliance on splitting and externalizing psychological conflicts becomes a personality trait increasing the likelihood an individual will support populist movements which view the political world dichotomously as a function of in-group/out-group memberships; a process reinforced by a collectivism achieved through an identification with a populist, nationalistic leader and perceived persecutory ‘other’ resulting in punitive public policies/political violence. Conditional, moderating factors may influence this process including the experience of psychotherapy on the developmental path between childhood adversity and the development of reflective functioning/epistemic trust as well as social location or positionality on the sense of agency required to externalize as opposed to internalizing psychological conflicts onto a socially identified ‘other.’
Michael Britton
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