Valli, Chiara; Nai, Alessandro (2023). Dispositioned to resist? The Big Five and resistance to dissonant political views. Personality and individual differences, 207, p. 112152. Elsevier 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112152
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This article investigates how dispositional traits influence the way individuals resist dissonant political information. More specifically, the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and four resistance strategies (avoidance, contesting, empowering, and negative affect) is explored. To do so, we present new evidence from an online survey where respondents from a Swiss sample (N = 936) were exposed to tailored counterarguments on a political initiative and asked to report their cognitive, behavioral, and affective responses to the dissonant messages. Against our expectations, openness is unrelated to any type of resistance. Conscientious individuals are hesitant to actively resist counter-attitudinal political information, while extraverts defend their attitude by bolstering their preexisting views. Similar tendencies are visible for agreeable respondents, although these individuals primarily rely on avoiding dissonant political content. Individuals high on neuroticism exhibit a strong emotional response by reacting with negative affect to oppositional political information.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ICMB) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Valli, Chiara Lisa |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0191-8869 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Funders: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Der Förderverein Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Bern (fkmb) |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Chiara Lisa Valli |
Date Deposited: |
11 May 2023 08:04 |
Last Modified: |
21 May 2023 02:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.paid.2023.112152 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Personality; Big Five; Political Disagreement; Resistance; Conflict Behavior |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/182443 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182443 |
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