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Political infants? Developmental origins of the negativity bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Katherine D. Kinzler  and
Amrisha Vaish
Katherine D. Kinzler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. kinzler@uchicago.eduhttp://dsclab.uchicago.edu
Amrisha Vaish
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. vaish@eva.mpg.dehttp://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/vaish/
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Abstract

The negativity bias in human cognition emerges in infancy and continues throughout childhood. To fully understand the relationship between differences in attention to negative stimuli and variance in political ideologies, it is critical to consider human development and the process by which early individual differences in negativity unfold and are shaped by both genes and environment.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 318
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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