The hand in motion of liberals and conservatives reveals the differential processing of positive and negative information

Carraro, Luciana; Castelli, Luigi; Negri, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.04.006

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“…Finally, the sample was heavily skewed in terms of political affiliation. Although not explicitly tied to the variables of interest in this study, previous research has suggested that liberals and conservatives engage with politics differently (Carraro, Castelli, & Negri, 2016;Wang, 2016), suggesting the possibility of differing influence of perceptions of political information encountered online. Research has not explored whether political affiliation similarly influences political engagement online, although future work should examine the influence of ideology on perceptions of social media political efficacy, and online and offline political engagement.…”

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confidence: 99%

Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles: Using Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Political Action Among Hispanics and Latinos

Velásquez

Quenette

2018

Mass Communication and Society

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles: Using Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Political Action Among Hispanics and Latinos

Velásquez

Quenette

2018

Mass Communication and Society

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“…[18][19][20] For example, when required to make computerized movements, political conservatives compared with political liberals have trajectories with greater avoidance of negative stimuli. 21 Avoidance of negative stimuli may be the reason that political conservatives score lower on openness to experience and higher on conscientiousness while conforming more to social norms. 22 Fourth, political conservatives, compared with political liberals, may be more likely to attribute negative behavior to a person's internal motivations, as compared with external factors.…”

Section: Part 1: Personality Trendsmentioning

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A Neurology of the Conservative-Liberal Dimension of Political Ideology

Mendez

2017

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Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict. There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual differences in political ideology through effects on a conservative-liberal axis. This review summarizes personality, evolutionary and genetic, cognitive, neuroimaging, and neurological studies of conservatism-liberalism and discusses how they might affect political ideology. What emerges from this highly variable literature is evidence for a normal right-sided "conservative-complex" involving structures sensitive to negativity bias, threat, disgust, and avoidance. This conservative-complex may be damaged with brain disease, sometimes leading to a pathological "liberal shift" or a reduced tendency to conservatism in political ideology. Although not deterministic, these findings recommend further research on politics and the brain.

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“…Half of the items were conservatism oriented and the other half were liberalism oriented. This measure has been used in previous studies [e.g., 47 , 48 ]. After appropriate rescaling of the liberal items by assigning higher values to conservative opinions, we computed a mean score for each participant (α = .76).…”

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Dining with liberals and conservatives: The social underpinnings of food neophobia

2022

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Although food and politics seem to be distant domains, socio-political ideology and food neophobia (i.e., reluctance to eat unfamiliar food) may be related. Conservatives’ high threat sensitivity and the inherently threatening nature of novel foods (the existential explanation), along with conservatives’ negative attitudes toward minority outgroups (e.g., foreigners) and the role of the latter in introducing novel foods to a culture (the social explanation), led us to expect that socio-political ideology would predict food neophobia over and above their common roots. Across two correlational and two experimental studies (N = 627), socio-political ideology emerged as a strong predictor of food neophobia. In addition, the findings did not support the existential explanation, while confirming the social explanation of the ideology–food neophobia link: Conservatives seem more neophobic than liberals not because of their higher threat sensitivity but rather because they hold more negative attitudes toward foreigners who are associated with those foods.

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The hand in motion of liberals and conservatives reveals the differential processing of positive and negative information

Cited by 10 publications

References 49 publications

Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles: Using Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Political Action Among Hispanics and Latinos

Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles: Using Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Political Action Among Hispanics and Latinos

A Neurology of the Conservative-Liberal Dimension of Political Ideology

Dining with liberals and conservatives: The social underpinnings of food neophobia

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