ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2014
Threat bias, not negativity bias, underpins differences in political ideology.
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- Perceived Negative Political Climate Among Hispanic/Latino Adolescents Before and After the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Associations with Internalizing Symptoms and Substance Use.International journal of intercultural relations : IJIR · 2023Article
- Navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in the contingency framework: Antecedents and consequences of public's stance toward the CDC.Public relations review · 2022Article
- The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of "fake news".Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
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- Political Identity Over Personal Impact: Early U.S. Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 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
- Dispositional Fear and Political Attitudes.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Youth Anxiety About Political News.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Parenting, temperament, and attachment security as antecedents of political orientation: Longitudinal evidence from early childhood to age 26.Developmental psychology · 2020Article
- Electoral fortunes reverse, mindsets do not.PloS one · 2018Article
- 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
- An Exploration of the Differential Effects of Parents' Authoritarianism Dimensions on Pre-school Children's Epistemic, Existential, and Relational Needs.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Although disparities in political ideology are rooted partly in dispositional differences, Hibbing et al.'s analysis paints with an overly broad brush. Research on the personality correlates of liberal-conservative differences points not to global differences in negativity bias, but to differences in threat bias, probably emanating from differences in fearfulness. This distinction bears implications for etiological research and persuasion efforts.
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