title: Facial expression judgments support a socio-relational model, rather than a negativity bias model of political psychology.
abstract: Self-reported opinions and judgments may be more rooted in expressive biases than in cognitive processing biases, and ultimately operate within a broader behavioral style for advertising the capacity - versus the trustworthiness - dimension of human reciprocity potential. Our analyses of facial expression judgments of likely voters are consistent with this thesis, and directly contradict one major prediction from the authors' "negativity-bias" model.
authors: Department of Psychology,University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, NM 87131-1161.vigilj@unm.eduhttp://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/sm_vigil.htmlcstrenth@unm.edu.
authors: Jacob M
authors: JM
authors: Vigil
authors: Department of Psychology,University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, NM 87131-1161.vigilj@unm.eduhttp://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/sm_vigil.htmlcstrenth@unm.edu.
authors: Chance
authors: C
authors: Strenth
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics