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Positive–Negative Asymmetry in the Evaluations of Political Candidates. The Role of Features of Similarity and Affect in Voter Behavior

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Title
Positive–Negative Asymmetry in the Evaluations of Political Candidates. The Role of Features of Similarity and Affect in Voter Behavior
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Frontiers in Psychology, February 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00213
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Andrzej Falkowski, Magdalena Jabłońska

Abstract

In this study we followed the extension of Tversky's research about features of similarity with its application to open sets. Unlike the original closed-set model in which a feature was shifted between a common and a distinctive set, we investigated how addition of new features and deletion of existing features affected similarity judgments. The model was tested empirically in a political context and we analyzed how positive and negative changes in a candidate's profile affect the similarity of the politician to his or her ideal and opposite counterpart. The results showed a positive-negative asymmetry in comparison judgments where enhancing negative features (distinctive for an ideal political candidate) had a greater effect on judgments than operations on positive (common) features. However, the effect was not observed for comparisons to a bad politician. Further analyses showed that in the case of a negative reference point, the relationship between similarity judgments and voting intention was mediated by the affective evaluation of the candidate.

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Unknown 12 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 25%
Professor 2 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 5 42%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 17%
Social Sciences 2 17%
Unknown 3 25%
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