Of unbiased beans and slanted stocks: Neutral stimuli reveal the fundamental relation between political ideology and exploratory behaviour.
attitudes
exploration
negativity bias
political ideology
Journal
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)
ISSN: 2044-8295
Titre abrégé: Br J Psychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0373124
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
05
02
2020
revised:
24
04
2020
pubmed:
10
6
2020
medline:
28
4
2021
entrez:
10
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Fiagbenu et al. (2019, British Journal of Psychology) questioned the nature and extent of ideological differences in learning and behaviour documented by Shook and Fazio (2009, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 995). We correct a mischaracterization in their depiction of Shook & Fazio's research, and in doing so, we outline why the original findings represent domain-general ideological differences in attitude-formation processes, rather than simple differences in responses to physical threat. We also report new data that suggest a potential mechanism for the authors' findings and further highlight the importance of novel, ideologically neutral stimuli when examining fundamental psychological differences between liberals and conservatives.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
358-361Informations de copyright
© 2020 British Psychological Society.
Références
Fazio, R. H., Eiser, J. R., & Shook, N. J. (2004). Attitude formation through exploration: Valence asymmetries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 293. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.87.3.293
Fazio, R. H., Pietri, E. S., Rocklage, M. D., & Shook, N. J. (2015). Positive versus negative valence: Asymmetries in attitude formation and generalization as fundamental individual differences. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 97-146.
Fiagbenu, M. E., Proch, J., & Kessler, T. (2019). Of deadly beans and risky stocks: Political ideology and attitude formation via exploration depend on the nature of the attitude stimuli. British Journal of Psychology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12430
Shook, N. J., & Fazio, R. H. (2009). Political ideology, exploration of novel stimuli, and attitude formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 995-8.