保守派报告,但自由派显示,更大的幸福感
Sean P Wojcik1, Arpine Hovasapian2, Jesse Graham3
1Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. swojcik@uci.edu phditto@uci.edu.
概括
政治保守派可能并不比自由派更快乐. 这项研究表明,保守派的自我提升报告风格,而不是实际的幸福感,解释了先前的发现. 自由主义者表现出更多与幸福相关的行为.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 政治心理学 政治心理学
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 之前的研究表明,政治保守派报告的主观幸福感高于自由派.
- 这些发现仅依赖于自我报告措施,可能受到响应偏差的影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查自我提升是否调解了政治保守派和自由派之间报告的幸福差异.
- 通过使用大规模数据,检查跨政治意识形态的幸福行为指标.
主要方法:
- 研究1使用自我报告措施来评估主观幸福感和自我提升风格.
- 研究2-4分析了"大数据" (在线调查,政客/社交媒体数据) 关于幸福的行为标记,包括语言使用和面部表情.
- 研究中的总样本大小:N = 6369.9.
主要成果:
- 保守派自我报告的幸福优势完全由他们对自我提升的倾向来解释.
- 自由主义者表现出更多与幸福相关的行为,比如使用更积极的情感语言,表现出更真诚的微笑.
- 这些行为差异在各种样本中是一致的.
结论:
- 政治意识形态和幸福之间的关系是复杂的,受到自我报告中的自我提升偏见的影响.
- 行为数据表明,自由主义者可能比保守主义者表现出更多外在的幸福迹象.
- 自我报告和行为之间的差异凸显了跨越政治分歧来衡量主观幸福感的细微性质.
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