Projectivity (psychological trait)
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Projectivity is a vaguely defined psychological trait that relates to a pessimistic view of the world, in particular fear of the unknown. Coined by authors of the landmark 1950 political sociology book, The Authoritarian Personality, including German Marxist critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno, projectivity refers to the holding of beliefs, whether consciously or subconsciously, which perceive the world, or an individual's environment, to be mysteriously dangerous; a projection of a subject's emotional conflicts on to society, or societies, at large.
Projectivity was defined explicitly as:
(Disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the world, the projection outward of unconscious emotional impulses). [Example] “Most people don’t realize how much our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places.”[1]
The trait can be said - a sentiment shared by academics Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford - to be a commonplace product of right-wing authoritarian thought, attributed to many conspiracy theories created by the political right in order to explain their version of history.
References[edit]
- ↑ Zeigler-Hill, V., & Shackelford, T. K. (Eds.). (2020). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3. p. 323.
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