title: Threat bias, not negativity bias, underpins differences in political ideology.
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.
authors: Department of Psychology,Emory University,Atlanta,GA 30322.slilien@emory.edu.
authors: Scott O
authors: SO
authors: Lilienfeld
authors: Department of Psychology,Georgia State University,Atlanta,GA 30302-5010.rlatzman@gsu.edu.
authors: Robert D
authors: RD
authors: Latzman
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics