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This chapter establishes the connection between intimations of mortality, or mortality salience as it is known in the social psychological literature, and the rise of political extremism. Mortality salience is the companion variable to the ephemeral gain, whose pathways to extremism were explored in the preceding chapter. War is not only a clear processual incubator of violence, but ultimately can yield political extremism. World War I is the seminal event of the twentieth century, which, despite important antecedent events like the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 that will be explored elsewhere in this book, nevertheless exerted its unique and extraordinary impact.
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This chapter establishes the connection between intimations of mortality, or mortality salience as it is known in the social psychological literature, and the rise of political extremism. Mortality salience is the companion variable to the ephemeral gain, whose pathways to extremism were explored in the preceding chapter. War is not only a clear processual incubator of violence, but ultimately can yield political extremism. World War I is the seminal event of the twentieth century, which, despite important antecedent events like the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 that will be explored elsewhere in this book, nevertheless exerted its unique and extraordinary impact.
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