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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Samore T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294387 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
PloS one 20181214 12
Conservatives and liberals have previously been shown to differ in the propensity to view socially-transmitted information about hazards as more plausible than that concerning benefits. Given differences between conservatives and liberals in threat sensitivity and dangerous-world beliefs, correlations between political orientation and negatively-biased credulity may thus reflect endogenous mindsets. Alternatively, such results may owe to the political hierarchy at the time of previous research, ...[more]