Fusion with leaders predicts willingness to persecute outsiders

Evidence

Jonas R. Kunst, John F. Dovidio, and Lotte Thomsen, “Fusion with Political Leaders Predicts Willingness to Persecute Immigrants and Political Opponents,” Nature Human Behaviour 3, no. 11 (2019): 1180–1189. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 267

Categorization

• XREF: Identity fusion with a leader — an extreme form of identity merging — links personal identity to out-group persecution, relevant to negative-identity accounts.