title: Emotional attachment security as the origin of liberal-conservative differences in vigilance to negative features of the environment.
abstract: This commentary advances the hypothesis that differences between liberal and conservative orientations noted in the target article are emotional in nature and caused by differences in attachment security: Conservatives are more vigilant to negative features of the environment because of a general sense of insecurity, whereas liberals are relatively more secure.
authors: Department of Communication U-1085,University of Connecticut,Storrs,CT 06269.ross.buck@uconn.eduhttp://coms.uconn.edu/directory/faculty/rbuck/index.htm.
authors: Ross
authors: R
authors: Buck
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics