Sanford School of Public Policy,Duke University,Durham,NC
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Jun;37(3):310-1. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002549.
The authors connect conservatism with aversion to negativity via the tendentious use of the language of threats to characterize conservatism, but not liberalism. Their reliance upon an objective conception of the negative ignores the fact that much of the disagreement between liberals and conservatives is over whether or not one and the same state of affairs is negative or positive.
作者通过有倾向性地使用威胁语言来将保守主义与对消极性的厌恶联系起来,而不是将其与自由主义联系起来,但这种做法是有失偏颇的。他们对消极性的客观概念的依赖忽视了这样一个事实,即自由主义者和保守主义者之间的许多分歧在于同一个事态是否是消极的还是积极的。