Why Do Haters Have to Hate? Newly Identified Personality Trait Holds Clues
Aug. 26, 2013 — New research has uncovered the reason why some people seem to dislike everything while others seem to like everything. Apparently, it's all part of our individual personality -- a dimension that researchers have coined "dispositional attitude."
People with a positive dispositional attitude have a strong tendency to like things, whereas people with a negative dispositional attitude have a strong tendency to dislike things, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal article, "Attitudes without objects: Evidence for a dispositional attitude, its measurement, and its consequences," was written by Justin Hepler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D., the Martin Fishbein Chair of Communication and Professor of Psychology at Penn.
"The dispositional attitude construct represents a new perspective in which attitudes are not simply a function of the properties of the stimuli under consideration, but are also a function of the properties of the evaluator," wrote the authors. "[For example], at first glance, it may not seem useful to know someone's feelings about architecture when assessing their feelings about health care. After all, health care and architecture are independent stimuli with unique sets of properties, so attitudes toward these objects should also be independent."
However, they note, there is still one critical factor that an individual's attitudes will have in common: the individual who formed the attitudes. "Some people may simply be more prone to focusing on positive features and others on negative features," Hepler said.
To discover whether people differ in the tendency to like or dislike things, Hepler and Albarracín created a scale that requires people to report their attitudes toward a wide variety of unrelated stimuli, such as architecture, cold showers, politics, and soccer. Upon knowing how much people (dis)like these specific things, the responses were then averaged together to calculate their dispositional attitude (i.e., to calculate how much they tend to like or dislike things in general). The theory is that if individuals differ in the general tendency to like versus dislike objects, attitudes toward independent objects may actually be related. Throughout the studies the researchers found that people with generally positive dispositional attitudes are more open than people with generally negative dispositional attitudes. In day-to-day practice, this means that people with positive dispositional attitudes may be more prone to actually buy new products, get vaccine shots, follow regular positive actions (recycling, driving carefully, etc.)
"This surprising and novel discovery expands attitude theory by demonstrating that an attitude is not simply a function of an object's properties, but it is also a function of the properties of the individual who evaluates the object," concluded Hepler and Albarracín. "Overall, the present research provides clear support for the dispositional attitude as a meaningful construct that has important implications for attitude theory and research."
Why Do Haters Have to Hate? Newly Identified Personality Trait Holds Clues
Aug. 26, 2013 — New research has uncovered the reason why some people seem to dislike everything while others seem to like everything. Apparently, it's all part of our individual personality -- a dimension that researchers have coined "dispositional attitude."
People with a positive dispositional attitude have a strong tendency to like things, whereas people with a negative dispositional attitude have a strong tendency to dislike things, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal article, "Attitudes without objects: Evidence for a dispositional attitude, its measurement, and its consequences," was written by Justin Hepler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D., the Martin Fishbein Chair of Communication and Professor of Psychology at Penn.
"The dispositional attitude construct represents a new perspective in which attitudes are not simply a function of the properties of the stimuli under consideration, but are also a function of the properties of the evaluator," wrote the authors. "[For example], at first glance, it may not seem useful to know someone's feelings about architecture when assessing their feelings about health care. After all, health care and architecture are independent stimuli with unique sets of properties, so attitudes toward these objects should also be independent."
However, they note, there is still one critical factor that an individual's attitudes will have in common: the individual who formed the attitudes. "Some people may simply be more prone to focusing on positive features and others on negative features," Hepler said.
To discover whether people differ in the tendency to like or dislike things, Hepler and Albarracín created a scale that requires people to report their attitudes toward a wide variety of unrelated stimuli, such as architecture, cold showers, politics, and soccer. Upon knowing how much people (dis)like these specific things, the responses were then averaged together to calculate their dispositional attitude (i.e., to calculate how much they tend to like or dislike things in general). The theory is that if individuals differ in the general tendency to like versus dislike objects, attitudes toward independent objects may actually be related. Throughout the studies the researchers found that people with generally positive dispositional attitudes are more open than people with generally negative dispositional attitudes. In day-to-day practice, this means that people with positive dispositional attitudes may be more prone to actually buy new products, get vaccine shots, follow regular positive actions (recycling, driving carefully, etc.)
"This surprising and novel discovery expands attitude theory by demonstrating that an attitude is not simply a function of an object's properties, but it is also a function of the properties of the individual who evaluates the object," concluded Hepler and Albarracín. "Overall, the present research provides clear support for the dispositional attitude as a meaningful construct that has important implications for attitude theory and research."
I wonder how many millions were wasted on the reasearch that told us what we already know? I hate ivory thinktankers!
Heh, yep!
These kinds of research findings are certainly interesting and often contain an element of truth. However, they can be used to create misleading impressions. For example, I once went on a tour of Port Arthur. At one stage, we were taken into a set of dungeons underneath the main buildings that were referred to as "the dissection rooms". In them, 18th century scientists dissected the bodies of convicts in the hope of finding a special "criminal factor" apparent within the bodies that was responsable for the antisocial behaviour of convicts. The fact that many of them were simply victims of an appalling and grossly unjust and unequal system which forced many of them to steal just so that they and their families did not starve to death was not a factor taken into consideration - something that from our modern point of veiw is so unfathomable that we would assume that simple common sense would have led to the right conclusion.
I think Peter is comparing this research to the phenomonen of housing bulls and bears, which is fair enough.
However, the veiwpoint of the article is clearly one-way. If we are to analyze people who currently express a negative attitude toward the housing situation, isn't only right that we do the same for the bulls as well? For example, why is it that some people cheerfully participate in a mass-movement that is denying the next generation affordable housing and continue to insist that everything is hunky-dory when it clearly isn't.........is there a personality trait that explains the attitude "I'm doing well - so f@#k anyone who is copping the rough end of the pineapple, especially when they point out that people like me are the ones gleefully wielding that pineapple".
I'm sure someone will do a research paper on it if the money is forthcoming.
why is it that some people cheerfully participate in a mass-movement that is denying the next generation affordable housing and continue to insist that everything is hunky-dory when it clearly isn't.........is there a personality trait that explains the attitude "I'm doing well - so f@#k anyone who is copping the rough end of the pineapple, especially when they point out that people like me are the ones gleefully wielding that pineapple".
I'm sure someone will do a research paper on it if the money is forthcoming.
If you sit and think about it, how fucken bizarre is this housing bubble shit.
A hypnotist can manipulate a member of the audience into believing that dog crap is a rib fillet steak or that the galamour woman next to you has fallen in love with you .
These type of techniques must or have to of been applied on a grand scale, Imo this knowledge has been incessantly kept from us.
Humanity is like the security guard. we often don't know what we are guarding or why we are doing it. Its is an automaton.
just doing whatever we are told to the letter and never for a moment considering the possibility that we should think for ourselves and interpret a situation on its merits.
Anyone who speaks up or suggests there is a better way is rounded up by the Fucken gatekeeper sheep dogs.
We want our children to live in a free world, right? Then why don't we even allow them to live in a free home?
Intergenerational conditioning by parents of their children is one of the greatest of all gatekeeping activities.
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