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Group Pride Rooted in Insecurity - Yahoo! News
From screaming baseball fans to political rally-goers, groups that engage in boastful self-aggrandizing may be trying to mask insecurity and low social status. "Our results suggest that hubristic, pompous displays of group pride might actually be a sign of group insecurity as opposed to a sign ...
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Dissecting Leftism — ... is best." When group members show signs of hubristic pride, such as making grandiose statements about their country, that could be a sign of underlying insecurity, the researchers said. "When you hear groups starting to get into that type of rhetoric it may be because they're starting to realize they're in a losing position and that they need to do something to try to drum up respect, to drum up the kind of status that they feel they're lacking," Pickett said. Source The first thing that needs to be stressed about the above findings -- ...

Group Pride, insecurity and the Left
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... is best." When group members show signs of hubristic pride, such as making grandiose statements about their country, that could be a sign of underlying insecurity, the researchers said. "When you hear groups starting to get into that type of rhetoric it may be because they're starting to realize they're in a losing position and that they need to do something to try to drum up respect, to drum up the kind of status that they feel they're lacking," Pickett said. Source The first thing that needs to be stressed about the above findings -- ...

Group Pride, insecurity and the Left
Stop The ACLU — ... it’s that my country is best.” When group members show signs of hubristic pride, such as making grandiose statements about their country, that could be a sign of underlying insecurity, the researchers said. “When you hear groups starting to get into that type of rhetoric it may be because they’re starting to realize they’re in a losing position and that they need to do something to try to drum up respect, to drum up the kind of status that they feel they’re lacking,” Pickett said. Source The first thing that needs to be stressed about the above findings — something the ...

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