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Negativity bias, emotion targets, and emotion systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Patrick Colm Hogan
Patrick Colm Hogan*
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut, Department of English, Storrs, CT 06269-4025. patrick.hogan@uconn.edu
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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.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 314 - 315
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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