polariteit

Blijkt uit literatuur dat - rozin al iets zegt over de kracht van extreme polariteit (in onze richting) - dat Peeters en Czapinski er iets over zeggen (zie artikel) - dat Czapinski zelfs in 1982 zegt dat als je gematigd positief bent, de negativiteitsbias omkeert, dan is positief krachtiger dan negatief! Positive–negative asymmetry at group and individual level: Further evidence and a new interpretation. Czapiński, Janusz Polish Psychological Bulletin, Vol 13(2), 1982, 153-158. Abstract Compared manifestations of positive–negative asymmetry in responses of small formal groups (undergraduate classes) and individuals. They were found to be essentially similar. Groups more strongly rejected their negative members than they accepted the positive ones, whereas the number of rejected members and all negative choices were smaller than the number of accepted members and all positive choices. On the individual level, it was found that among significantly polarized evaluations, negative ones had more importance than positive ones, while for slightly polarized evaluations the reverse was true. A new interpretation is proposed for the positive–negative asymmetry phenomenon, based on the assumption of negative events having more importance than positive, and on the hypothesis of the asymmetric influence of adaptive responses on evaluative responses of different valency. (20 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)