Cognitive-Affective Styles of Biden and Trump Supporters
An Automated Text Analysis Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21210034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Ann A Abe (0000-0003-0844-1145, Southern Connecticut State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-155 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychological and Personality Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-5506 • E-ISSN: 1948-5514 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19485506221082737 |
| OpenAlex | W4226457147 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Are conservatives more simple-minded and happier than liberals? To revisit this question, 1,518 demographically diverse participants (52% females) were recruited from an online participant-sourcing platform and asked to write a narrative about the upcoming 2020 U.S. Presidential Election as well as complete self and candidates’ ratings of personality. The narratives were analyzed using three well-validated text analysis programs. As expected, extremely enthusiastic Trump supporters used less cognitively complex and more confident language than both their less enthusiastic counterparts and Biden supporters. Trump supporters also used more positive affective language than Biden supporters. More simplistic and categorical modes of thinking as well as positive emotional tone were also associated with positive perceptions of Trump’s, but not Biden’s personality. Dialectical complexity and positive emotional tone accounted for significant unique variance in predicting appraisals of Trump’s trustworthiness/integrity even after controlling for demographic variables, self-ratings of conscientiousness and openness, and political affiliation
Big Five personality traits · Conscientiousness · Extraversion and introversion · Narrative · Openness to experience · Personality · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Natural Language Analysis and the Psychology of Verbal Behavior
Automated Integrative Complexity
When Likeness Goes with Liking
Automated Integrative Complexity
When Parsimony Subdues Distinctiveness
Beyond the Running Tally
Two ways to be complex and why they matter
Political psycholinguistics
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
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| Highly cited | No |