Trial reportPloS one2011
The automatic conservative: ideology-based attentional asymmetries in the processing of valenced information.
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- The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Moving Morality Beyond the In-Group: Liberals and Conservatives Show Differences on Group-Framed Moral Foundations and These Differences Mediate the Relationships to Perceived Bias and Threat.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Their Economy and Our Health: Communicating Climate Change to the Divided American Public.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Cognitive underpinnings of nationalistic ideology in the context of Brexit.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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- Conservatism and the neural circuitry of threat: economic conservatism predicts greater amygdala-BNST connectivity during periods of threat vs safety.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- The moral foundations of illusory correlation.PloS one · 2017Article
- An Exploration of the Differential Effects of Parents' Authoritarianism Dimensions on Pre-school Children's Epistemic, Existential, and Relational Needs.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The politics of attention contextualized: gaze but not arrow cuing of attention is moderated by political temperament.Cognitive processing · 2015Article
- Associations between parental ideology and neural sensitivity to cognitive conflict in children.Social neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
Research has widely explored the differences between conservatives and liberals, and it has been also recently demonstrated that conservatives display different reactions toward valenced stimuli. However, previous studies have not yet fully illuminated the cognitive underpinnings of these differences. In the current work, we argued that political ideology is related to selective attention processes, so that negative stimuli are more likely to automatically grab the attention of conservatives as compared to liberals. In Experiment 1, we demonstrated that negative (vs. positive) information impaired the performance of conservatives, more than liberals, in an Emotional Stroop Task. This finding was confirmed in Experiment 2 and in Experiment 3 employing a Dot-Probe Task, demonstrating that threatening stimuli were more likely to attract the attention of conservatives. Overall, results support the conclusion that people embracing conservative views of the world display an automatic selective attention for negative stimuli.
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