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Negativity bias, personality and political ideology.

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Johnston, CD; Madson, GJ
Published in: Nature human behaviour
May 2022

Research suggests that right-wing ideology is associated with negativity bias: a tendency to pay more attention and give more weight to negative versus positive stimuli. This work typically relies on either self-reported traits related to negativity bias in large, often-representative, samples or physiological and behavioural indicators of negativity bias in small convenience samples. We extend this literature and examine the relationship of negativity bias to political ideology using five distinct behavioural measures of negativity bias in four national samples of US residents with a total analytical sample size of about 4,000 respondents. We also examine the association of these behavioural measures to four of the most common self-report measures of personality in the literature on ideology. Across a wide range of tests, we find no consistent evidence for a relationship of negativity bias to either ideology or self-reported personality.

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Nature human behaviour

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2397-3374

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2397-3374

Publication Date

May 2022

Volume

6

Issue

5

Start / End Page

666 / 676

Related Subject Headings

  • Self Report
  • Politics
  • Personality
  • Models, Psychological
  • Individuality
  • Humans
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Johnston, C. D., & Madson, G. J. (2022). Negativity bias, personality and political ideology. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(5), 666–676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01327-5
Johnston, Christopher D., and Gabriel J. Madson. “Negativity bias, personality and political ideology.Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 5 (May 2022): 666–76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01327-5.
Johnston CD, Madson GJ. Negativity bias, personality and political ideology. Nature human behaviour. 2022 May;6(5):666–76.
Johnston, Christopher D., and Gabriel J. Madson. “Negativity bias, personality and political ideology.Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6, no. 5, May 2022, pp. 666–76. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01327-5.
Johnston CD, Madson GJ. Negativity bias, personality and political ideology. Nature human behaviour. 2022 May;6(5):666–676.

Published In

Nature human behaviour

DOI

EISSN

2397-3374

ISSN

2397-3374

Publication Date

May 2022

Volume

6

Issue

5

Start / End Page

666 / 676

Related Subject Headings

  • Self Report
  • Politics
  • Personality
  • Models, Psychological
  • Individuality
  • Humans
  • 52 Psychology
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences