Of deadly beans and risky stocks: Political ideology and attitude formation via exploration depend on the nature of the attitude stimuli.

An attitude formation task examined how conservatives and liberals explore information about novel stimuli and form attitudes towards them. When framed as the BeanFest game, conservatives sampled fewer beans and exhibited a stronger learning asymmetry (i.e., better learning for negative than positiv...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 112; no. 1; pp. 342 - 358
Main Authors:	Fiagbenu, Michael Edem, Proch, Jutta, Kessler, Thomas
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Feb2021
Subjects:	Attitude (Psychology) Practical politics Learning Video games Thought & thinking
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost