The 2016 U.S. presidential election coincided with the rise of the “alternative right,” or alt-right. Alt-right associates have wielded considerable influence on the current administration and on social discourse, but the movement’s loose organizational structure has led to disparate portrayals of its members’ psychology and made it difficult to decipher its aims and reach. To systematically explore the alt-right’s psychology, we recruited two U.S. samples: An exploratory sample through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (N = 827, alt-right n = 447) and a larger, nationally representative sample through the National Opinion Research Center’s Amerispeak panel (N = 1,283, alt-right n = 71–160, depending on the definition). We estimate that 6% of the U.S. population and 10% of Trump voters identify as alt-right. Alt-right adherents reported a psychological profile more reflective of the desire for group-based dominance than economic anxiety. Although both the alt-right and non-alt-right Trump voters differed substantially from non-alt-right, non-Trump voters, the alt-right and Trump voters were quite similar, differing mainly in the alt-right’s especially high enthusiasm for Trump, suspicion of mainstream media, trust in alternative media, and desire for collective action on behalf of Whites. We argue for renewed consideration of overt forms of bias in contemporary intergroup research.

2016年美国总统大选正值的兴起“另类右”或ALT-权。右翼右派同伙对现任政府和社会言论产生了相当大的影响，但该运动松散的组织结构导致对其成员心理的不同描述，并且难以解读其目标和影响范围。为了系统地探究另类权利人士的心理，我们收集了两个美国样本：通过亚马逊的Mechanical Turk开发的探索性样本（N = 827，另类权利n = 447），以及通过国家民意研究中心的Amerispeak小组获得的更具全国代表性的样本（N = 1,283，右移n= 71–160，具体取决于定义）。我们估计有6％的美国人口和10％的特朗普选民认为是极右派。极右翼的拥护者报告说，他们的心理状况比经济上的焦虑更能反映出对基于群体的统治的渴望。尽管极右派和非极右派的特朗普选民与非极右派，非特朗普选民都大不相同，但极右派和特朗普的选民却非常相似，主要区别在于极右派对选举的热情很高。特朗普，怀疑主流媒体，对替代媒体的信任，并希望代表白人采取集体行动。我们主张在当代群体间研究中重新考虑公开偏见的形式。