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Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology
Research has demonstrated that people who embrace different ideological orientations often show differences at the level of basic cognitive processes. For instance, conservatives (vs. liberals) display an automatic selective attention for negative (vs. positive) stimuli, and tend to more easily form...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24820311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096312 |
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author | Carraro, Luciana Negri, Paolo Castelli, Luigi Pastore, Massimiliano |
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description | Research has demonstrated that people who embrace different ideological orientations often show differences at the level of basic cognitive processes. For instance, conservatives (vs. liberals) display an automatic selective attention for negative (vs. positive) stimuli, and tend to more easily form illusory correlations between negative information and minority groups. In the present work, we further explored this latter effect by examining whether it only involves the formation of explicit attitudes or it extends to implicit attitudes. To this end, following the typical illusory correlation paradigm, participants were presented with members of two numerically different groups (majority and minority) each performing either a positive or negative behaviour. Negative behaviors were relatively infrequent, and the proportion of positive and negative behaviors within each group was the same. Next, explicit and implicit (i.e., IAT-measured) attitudes were assessed. Results showed that conservatives (vs. liberals) displayed stronger explicit as well as implicit illusory correlations effects, forming more negative attitudes toward the minority (vs. majority) group at both the explicit and implicit level. |
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spelling | pubmed-40183942014-05-16 Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology Carraro, Luciana Negri, Paolo Castelli, Luigi Pastore, Massimiliano PLoS One Research Article Research has demonstrated that people who embrace different ideological orientations often show differences at the level of basic cognitive processes. For instance, conservatives (vs. liberals) display an automatic selective attention for negative (vs. positive) stimuli, and tend to more easily form illusory correlations between negative information and minority groups. In the present work, we further explored this latter effect by examining whether it only involves the formation of explicit attitudes or it extends to implicit attitudes. To this end, following the typical illusory correlation paradigm, participants were presented with members of two numerically different groups (majority and minority) each performing either a positive or negative behaviour. Negative behaviors were relatively infrequent, and the proportion of positive and negative behaviors within each group was the same. Next, explicit and implicit (i.e., IAT-measured) attitudes were assessed. Results showed that conservatives (vs. liberals) displayed stronger explicit as well as implicit illusory correlations effects, forming more negative attitudes toward the minority (vs. majority) group at both the explicit and implicit level. Public Library of Science 2014-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4018394/ /pubmed/24820311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096312 Text en © 2014 Carraro et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Carraro, Luciana Negri, Paolo Castelli, Luigi Pastore, Massimiliano Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title | Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title_full | Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title_fullStr | Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title_full_unstemmed | Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title_short | Implicit and Explicit Illusory Correlation as a Function of Political Ideology |
title_sort | implicit and explicit illusory correlation as a function of political ideology |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24820311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096312 |
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