Author:: Olga Khazan Full Title:: The Psychology of Effective Protest Tags:#media/article Link:: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-psychology-of-effective-protest/517749/
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* highlights from 2021-02-08
* But several new studies on the psychology behind protests show that, perversely, “extreme” protests like that at Berkeley also undermine activists’ overarching goal of attracting more people to their movement. What’s worse, activists don’t realize they are hoisting themselves with their own smoke bombs.
* Then, both African-American and white participants felt more support toward Black Lives Matter protesters if they read that the protesters chanted anti-racist slogans than if they encouraged violence against police officers.
* People shown the extreme anti-Trump protests actually supported Trump more—an effect that occurred, to varying degrees, among liberals and conservatives alike.
* “The more conservative protests are, the more radical they are. ... Be orderly, polite, and visibly patriotic. ... The goal is to gain allies among people who would not normally agree with you.”