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Table 22 Summary of hypotheses and results

From: Psychology and morality of political extremists: evidence from Twitter language analysis of alt-right and Antifa

Variable

Hypothesis

Test

Direction

Significant

Certainty

Extremists > Non-extremists

ANOVA

✗

✗

Extremists < Non-extremists

ANOVA

✓

✗

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

Anxiety

RWE > Others

Tukey’s HSD

✗✗✗

✗✗✗

RWE < Others

Tukey’s HSD

✓✓✓

✓✓✗

Positive emotion

RW > LW

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

RW < LW

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

Extremists > Non-extremists

ANOVA

✗

✗

Extremists < Non-extremists

ANOVA

✓

✓

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✓

RWE < LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

Negative emotion

RW > LW

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

RW < LW

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

Extremists > Non-extremists

ANOVA

✓

✓

Extremists < Non-extremists

ANOVA

✗

✗

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

RWE < LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✓

Fairness

LWE > RWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✓

LWE > LW

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

Harm avoidance

LWE > RWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

LWE > LW

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

Obedience to authority

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✓

RWE > RW

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✓

Ingroup loyalty

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✗

RWE > RW

Tukey’s HSD

✗

✓

Purity

RWE > LWE

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗

RWE > RW

Tukey’s HSD

✓

✗