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Published on: September 28, 2018
The psychology of revolution
Fathali M Moghaddam1, Margaret J Hendricks1
13700 O St. NW, White Gravenor Hall (3rd Floor), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
Abstract:
Revolutions are attempts to forcibly overthrow the political and social order. However, most revolutions fail to generate longer-term psychological changes to bring about a match between the behavior of the population and the espoused goals of the revolution. Attempts by the new ruling 'revolutionary' elite to re-establish order in society often result in a resurgence of repression and corruption, and imprisonment for those considered 'anti-revolutionary'. Recent psychological research on revolutions explains this failure through limitations in political plasticity, the speed and extent to which political behavior does or does not change, which constrain the impact a revolution can have on individual and collective behavior.
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