Personality traits moderate the link between uncertainty and political violence

Evidence

Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup, “Personality Moderates the Relationship between Uncertainty and Political Violence: Evidence from Two Large Us Samples,” Personality and Individual Differences 139 (2019): 102–9. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 267

Categorization

• XREF: Moderation finding: uncertainty does not uniformly produce violence — bears on whether identity effects are conditional rather than main effects. — connects to: Rising uncertainty across identity boundaries amplifies and sharpens collective violence — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 775; Uncertainty alone does not cause violent extremism without moderating factors — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 231