title: How encompassing is the effect of negativity bias on political conservatism?
abstract: We argue that the political effects of negativity bias are narrower than Hibbing et al. suggest. Negativity bias reliably predicts social, but not economic, conservatism, and its political effects often vary across levels of political engagement. Thus the role of negativity bias in broad ideological conflict depends on the strategic packaging of economic and social attitudes by political elites.
authors: Department of Psychology,Yeshiva University,New York,NY 10033.amalka@yu.eduhttp://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/Malka-Ariel.
authors: Ariel
authors: A
authors: Malka
authors: Department of Psychology Colby College,Waterville,ME 04901.cjsoto@colby.eduhttp://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/cjsoto/
authors: Christopher J
authors: CJ
authors: Soto
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics