In-group Affect, Out-group Disdain, and Negative Voting

This chapter tackles the relationship between negative voting and its proposed affective component. Our findings show that negative affect is present among positive and negative voters alike. Contrary to the most immediate expectation that negative voting would be the product of disproportionate negativity among negative voters, however, the results contained in this chapter show that the distinctive feature of negative voters is their low level of in-group affect vis-a-vis positive voters.