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An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs

  • Leonardo Ambasciano
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. Juni 2021
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Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
Aus der Zeitschrift Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Band 5 Heft 1

Abstract

After summarizing Roger Griffin’s Fascism: An Introduction to Comparative Fascist Studies (2018), I describe the academic subfield of Comparative Fascist Studies (CFS). I argue that CFS could be strengthened by integrating it with cognitive science, evolutionary psychol­ogy, and religious studies. That biocultural integration would make it more effective as both a scholarly endeavour and an antifascist vaccine for democratic societies. I explain the role of traditional mass media and digital social media in the rise of dominance-style leadership and radical-right populism, construct a neurosociological revision of the CFS concept of fascism as a “political religion,” and characterize ultranationalism as a set of maladaptive supernormal stimuli. These revisions of CFS aim at providing a cross-disciplinary frame­work able to explain the spread of alt-right conspiracy theories online and offline.

Keywords: cognitive historiography; Comparative Fascist Studies; evolutionary psychology; modern history; neurosociology; onlife; religious studies; Roger Griffin; Timothy Snyder; Umberto Eco
Published Online: 2021-06-15
Published in Print: 2021-06-01

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Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Title
  2. Table of Contents
  3. ARTICLES
  4. An Infectious Curiosity: Morbid Curiosity and Media Preferences during a Pandemic
  5. Deny None of It: A Biocultural Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
  6. An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs
  7. Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
  8. REVIEW ESSAYS
  9. Learning from Fiction?
  10. Imagination in the Generation of Pictures and Interpersonal Scenarios
  11. BOOK REVIEWS
  12. Iris Berent
  13. Frans B. M. de Waal
  14. Charles Forceville
  15. David Haig
  16. Clare Hanson
  17. Joseph Henrich
  18. Joseph LeDoux
  19. Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt, eds.
  20. Brian Rennie
  21. ARTICLE REVIEWS
  22. Audiovisual Media
  23. Cognitive Poetics
  24. Cultural Theory
  25. Imagination
  26. Language
  27. Law
  28. Life Narratives
  29. Literature
  30. Music
  31. Paleoaesthetics
  32. Politics and Ideology
  33. Popular Culture
  34. Religion
  35. LETTERS
  36. Ruth Leys
  37. Reply by Rainer Reisenzein
  38. Contributors
https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.208
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
cognitive historiography; Comparative Fascist Studies; evolutionary psychology; modern history; neurosociology; onlife; religious studies; Roger Griffin; Timothy Snyder; Umberto Eco

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Title
  2. Table of Contents
  3. ARTICLES
  4. An Infectious Curiosity: Morbid Curiosity and Media Preferences during a Pandemic
  5. Deny None of It: A Biocultural Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
  6. An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs
  7. Untangling Darwinian Confusion around Lust, Love, and Attachment in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough
  8. REVIEW ESSAYS
  9. Learning from Fiction?
  10. Imagination in the Generation of Pictures and Interpersonal Scenarios
  11. BOOK REVIEWS
  12. Iris Berent
  13. Frans B. M. de Waal
  14. Charles Forceville
  15. David Haig
  16. Clare Hanson
  17. Joseph Henrich
  18. Joseph LeDoux
  19. Alan C. Love and William Wimsatt, eds.
  20. Brian Rennie
  21. ARTICLE REVIEWS
  22. Audiovisual Media
  23. Cognitive Poetics
  24. Cultural Theory
  25. Imagination
  26. Language
  27. Law
  28. Life Narratives
  29. Literature
  30. Music
  31. Paleoaesthetics
  32. Politics and Ideology
  33. Popular Culture
  34. Religion
  35. LETTERS
  36. Ruth Leys
  37. Reply by Rainer Reisenzein
  38. Contributors
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