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Abstract
This article describes how psychological defenses influence people's worldviews, more specifically their relationship to authority, turns to religion, success narratives, liberal and conservative political views, moral narratives, notions of economic merit, and ideas about human capacities, race, class, and gender. The defenses play out their influence in people's defensive signatures. Recognition of people's defensive signatures suggests ways to rethink fundamental features of public life.