Fetterman Adam K, Boyd Ryan L, Robinson Michael D
Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2015 Sep;41(9):1195-206. doi: 10.1177/0146167215591960. Epub 2015 Jun 22.
Posited motivational differences between liberals and conservatives have historically been controversial. This motivational interface has recently been bridged, but the vast majority of studies have used self-reports of values or motivation. Instead, the present four studies investigated whether two classic social motive themes--power and affiliation--vary by political ideology in objective linguistic analysis terms. Study 1 found that posts to liberal chat rooms scored higher in standardized affiliation than power, whereas the reverse was true of posts to conservative chat rooms. Study 2 replicated this pattern in the context of materials posted to liberal versus conservative political news websites. Studies 3 and 4, finally, replicated a similar interactive (ideology by motive type) pattern in State of the State and State of the Union addresses. Differences in political ideology, these results suggest, are marked by, and likely reflective of, mind-sets favoring affiliation (liberal) or power (conservative).
从历史上看，自由派和保守派之间假定的动机差异一直存在争议。这种动机界面最近已被弥合，但绝大多数研究都使用了价值观或动机的自我报告。相反，目前的四项研究从客观语言分析的角度调查了两个经典的社会动机主题——权力和归属——是否因政治意识形态而异。研究1发现，在自由派聊天室发布的帖子在标准化归属方面的得分高于权力方面，而在保守派聊天室发布的帖子则相反。研究2在发布到自由派与保守派政治新闻网站的材料背景下复制了这一模式。最后，研究3和研究4在国情咨文和总统国情咨文演讲中复制了类似的交互（意识形态×动机类型）模式。这些结果表明，政治意识形态的差异以倾向于归属（自由派）或权力（保守派）的思维模式为特征，并且可能反映了这种思维模式。
