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Political infants? Developmental origins of the negativity bias
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2014
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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