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Many behavioral tendencies associated with right-leaning (conservative) political ideologies are malleable and unrelated to negativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Christopher Y. Olivola  and
Abigail B. Sussman
Christopher Y. Olivola
Affiliation:
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. [email protected]://sites.google.com/site/chrisolivola/
Abigail B. Sussman
Affiliation:
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. [email protected]://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/s/abigail-sussman
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Abstract

Recent research has identified several judgment and decision making tendencies associated with right-leaning political ideologies that are difficult (if not impossible) to explain in terms of stable, negative affective appraisals because they (1) are uncorrelated with the negativity of the stimuli being considered, (2) do not reflect divergent affective evaluations, and (3) can be eliminated by superficial manipulations and interventions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 323 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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