title: Negativity bias, emotion targets, and emotion systems.
abstract: Hibbing et al.'s article isolates a plausible psychological factor contributing to differences in political orientation. However, there are two potential difficulties. Both the nature of negativity and the liberal-conservative opposition are ambiguous. A possible way of treating these problems enhances the theoretical framework through fuller reference to emotion systems and categories of triggers for those systems.
authors: University of Connecticut,Department of English,Storrs,CT 06269-4025.patrick.hogan@uconn.edu.
authors: Patrick Colm
authors: PC
authors: Hogan
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics