David J. Grüning

David J. Grüning

Interested in too many things in psychology.
On the hunt for a concentration.

Student & researcher at Heidelberg University. Additionally involved here and there, e.g., Brown, Oslo, Mannheim, GESIS, Max-Planck.

(Last website update: 14.04.2021)

Psychological perversities and populism

Published in The Psychology of Populism: The Tribal Challenge to Liberal Democracy, 2021

Recommended citation: Krueger, J. I., & Grüning, D. J. (2021). Psychological perversities and populism. The Psychology of Populism: The Tribal Challenge to Liberal Democracy, 125. http://www.sydneysymposium.unsw.edu.au/2020/chapters/KruegerSSSP2020.pdf

Gabriel García Márquez, the shaman of magical realism, knew that uncertainty, in literature and in life, has its perversities. Here, we explore some facets of uncertainty, the human desire to escape from it, and its implications for populism (see also Kruglanski et al., this volume). [Download paper here](http://www.sydneysymposium.unsw.edu.au/2020/chapters/KruegerSSSP2020.pdf) Recommended citation: Krueger, J. I., & Grüning, D. J. (2021). Psychological perversities and populism. The Psychology of Populism: The Tribal Challenge to Liberal Democracy, 125.