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Negativity bias and basic values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; International Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia. msshasch@mscc.huji.ac.il http://psychology.huji.ac.il/en/
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Abstract

Basic values explain more variance in political attitudes and preferences than other personality and sociodemographic variables. The values most relevant to the political domain are those likely to reflect the degree of negativity bias. Value conflicts that represent negativity bias clarify differences between what worries conservatives and liberals and suggest that relations between ideology and negativity bias are linear.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 328 - 329
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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