Human nature and globalization’s discontents: What the antecedents of ideology tells us about the obstacles to greater global interconnectedness

In this paper, I show how a particular understanding of agency, focussed on psychological and physiological mechanisms, has the potential to provide an alternative appreciation of globalization, particularly the sources of its discontent. The argument draws on recent findings in political psychology, specifically research that explores the antecedents of ideology and the attitudinal pathways that form left and right sympathies. I show how the...