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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudy confirms: haters gonna hate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/08/28/haters_are_gonna_hate_dispositional_attitude_study_confirms_it.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=button_toolbarHaters really are going to hate. A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology corroborates the hip-hop and Internet truism that you just cant win with some people. (No word yet on whether playas gonna play or ballers gonna ball, but well probably find out soon. Researchers gonna research.)
In their paper Attitudes Without Objects, psychologists Justin Hepler and Dolores Albarracin show that those who already hold a lot of negative views are more likely to react negatively to new stimuli. The pair asked a group of 200 men and women to evaluate how they felt about various subjects, such as camping, health care, architecture, taxidermy, crossword puzzles, and Japan. They took note of the respondents who rated many of these unconnected prompts harshly (the haters). Then, a month later, they asked everyone to weigh in again to control for the possibility that the grumps were just in a bad mood the first time.
After marking the dependably hateful haters with a scarlet H, the researchers presented participants with information about a new product: the Monahan LPI-800 Compact 2/3-Cubic-Foot 700-Watt Microwave Oven. This elaborately titled microwave oven does not exist (except in Jack Donaghy's mind), but participants didn't know this and were given three glowing fake reviews and three dissatisfied fake reviews. While people who more or less liked taxidermy and crossword puzzles also liked the oven, the haters drenched their fake consumer surveys in haterade. They were also more likely to hate on recycling and vaccine shots. (To be fair, its hard to be a ray of sunshine when youve got the measles.)
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Study confirms: haters gonna hate (Original Post)
Enrique
Aug 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. In other news, water is wet and Michael Jackson is still dead.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)3. Case in point....
shenmue
(38,503 posts)2. Figures
There really are some people you just can't make happy.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)4. Yep!