Negativity bias and basic values

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-1825|37|3|328-329

ISSN: 0140-525x

Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.37, Iss.3, 2014-06, pp. : 328-329

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Abstract

Basic values explain more variance in political attitudes and preferences than other personality and sociodemographic variables. The values most relevant to the political domain are those likely to reflect the degree of negativity bias. Value conflicts that represent negativity bias clarify differences between what worries conservatives and liberals and suggest that relations between ideology and negativity bias are linear.