Researchers take on crucial question: Are hatersgonna hate?
Author: Sarah Kliff Source: WashingtonPost
It is an age-oldadage of Twitter, which apparently from 2000: Haters gonna hate.
Now, scientistshave taken it upon themselves to figure out whether this is true. Do verifiedhaters tend to hate everything else they stumble upon? Yes, according to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. People whotend to hate things they already know about are (surprise!) more disposed tohate things they have not yet come in contact with.
To test out thistheory, a team of psychologists asked study participants how they felt about anumber of mundane and unrelated subjects that included (but was not limited to)architecture, health care, crossword puzzles, taxidermy and Japan.
They wanted tofigure out if people tended to like or dislike things in general. This wasdubbed the individual’s dispositional attitude or, more simply put, checked forwhether they were a hater who pretty much hates on everything that comes acrosstheir path.
“If individuals differ in the general tendencyto like versus dislike objects, an intriguing possibility is that attitudestoward independent objects may actually be related,” they write. “So someone’sattitude toward architecture may in fact tell us something about their attitudetoward health care because both attitudes would be biased by a disposition to like or dislike stimuli.”
The researchers did run one group through thehater test, as I like to think of it, twice with a month in between trials, toensure that it didn’t just represent some people having a bad day.
With the hater test verified and known hatersidentified, researchers asked their participants to read about the “MonahanLPI-800 Compact 2/3-Cubic-Foot 700-Watt Microwave Oven.” This not a realmicrowave but one dreamt up by researchers to test how much people would hateit.
The haters, perhaps unsurprisingly, were muchless enthused than those who had more positive attitudes about camping, Japanand the like. This was also true in a question about vaccines, where the likerswere more likely to have a positive opinion about getting vaccine shots thenthe haters.
“The present research demonstrated that somepeople tend to like things, whereas others tend to dislike things,” theresearchers conclude, contending that “A more thoroughunderstanding of this tendency will lead to a more thorough understanding ofthe psychology of attitudes.”
Hate on, haters. It was what you were meant todo.
研究人员涉足关键问题：厌恶者倾向于厌恶吗？
作者：Sarah Kliff 来源：华盛顿邮报
这是在twitter上的一条很老的俗语，厌恶者倾向于厌恶，最早出现在2000年。
现在，科学家们自己已经开始在研究这句俗语是否是真的，已经证实的厌恶者会倾向于讨厌所有他们偶然发现的新事物吗？根据Journal of Personality and Social Psychology的一项新的研究表明，答案是真的。倾向于讨厌他们已经熟知事物的人更容易厌恶他们没有接触过的新事物。
为了验证这个理论，一组心理学家研究实验参与者是如何看待一些世俗的和不相关的主题的，包括(但不限于)建筑、医疗保健、填字游戏、标本和日本。
他们想找出人们对事物一般倾向于喜欢还是不喜欢，这被称为个体的意向态度，或者，更加简单的说，检验他们是不是一个厌恶出现在他们视线内所有的事物的厌恶者。
研究者写到“如果一个人对事物的喜好与厌恶与大众趋势不同，一个有趣的可能性是他对独立事物的态度实际上是相关的，所以，一个人对建筑的态度可能告诉我们一些他对关于医疗保健的态度，因为这两个态度都是基于个人对事物的喜好或者厌恶促进因素的。
这些研究者还进行了针对一组厌恶者的实验，你可能想到，两次实验之间间隔一个月，来保证有些人只是刚好遇到一个心情不好的一天。
随着厌恶者的确认和对已知厌恶者的识别，研究人员让他们阅读一个关于“Monahan LPI-800 Compact 2/3-Cubic-Foot 700-Watt 微波炉.”“的资料，这不是一个真正的微波炉，而是一个研究人员臆想出来的事物，来测试人们倒地有多讨厌它。
那些厌恶者，也许并不出人意料，他们的态度相对于那些对日本、野营有更多积极态度的人显然不是那么热情。在另外一个关于疫苗的问题中，也是这样种情况，喜爱倾向的人相对于厌恶者会对疫苗注射有更多积极的倾向
研究者总结到：“目前的研究表明，有些人倾向于喜欢事物，而有些人却相反“他们说，”对于这方面的更深层次的理解会引导心理态度学的更深层的理解“。
继续厌恶吧，厌恶者们，这是你们应该做的。
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