Power, Politics, and Paranoia : Why People are Suspicious of Their Leaders (Hardcover)

1. Power, politics, and paranoia: an introduction Jan-Willem van Prooijen and Paul A. M. van Lange; Part I. Power: 2. The effects of power on immorality Joris Lammers and Ilja van Beest; 3. Do we give power to the right people? When and how norm violators rise to the top Eftychia Stamkou and Gerben van Kleef; 4. The leaders' rosy halo: why do we give powerholders the benefit of the doubt? Pamela K. Smith and Jennifer R. Overbeck; 5. 'Power corrupts' revisited: the role of construal of power as opportunity or responsibility Kai Sassenberg, Naomi Ellemers, Daan Scheepers and Annika Scholl; Part II. Politics: 6. Never trust a politician? Collective distrust, relational accountability, and voter response Susan T. Fiske and Federica Durante; 7. Political distrust: the seed and fruit of popular empowerment Fouad Bou Zeineddine and Felicia Pratto; 8. All power to our great leader: political leadership under uncertainty John J. Haller and Michael A. Hogg; 9. Those who supported and voted for Berlusconi. A social-psychological profile of the willing followers of a controversial political leader Antonio Chirumbolo and Luigi Leone; 10. A growing confidence gap in politics? Data versus discourse Rudy B. Andeweg; Part III. Paranoia: 11. Misconnecting the dots: origins and dynamics of outgroup paranoia Roderick M. Kramer and Jennifer Schaffer; 12. Political paranoia and conspiracy theories Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham; 13. The social dimension of belief in conspiracy theories Jan-Willem van Prooijen and Paul A. M. van Lange; 14. Examining the monological nature of conspiracy theories Robbie M. Sutton and Karen M. Douglas; 15. The role of paranoia in a dual-process motivational model of conspiracy belief Marc Wilson and Chelsea Rose; 16. Searching for the root of all evil: an existential-sociological perspective on political enemyship and scapegoating Daniel Sullivan, Mark J. Landau, Zachary K. Rothschild and Lucas A. Keefer.