Erratum to: Curr Psychol

DOI 10.1007/s12144-015-9333-y

This erratum is written in reference to two reporting errors found. The first reporting error is specifically in reference to the participants. 185 adult Americans had volunteered to participate in the study. In terms of political affiliation, 33.5% of participants identified as Democrat, 12.4% identified as Republican, 25.4% as Independents, and 28.6% as “Others”, “No answer”, or “No preference.” However, due to the lack of responses in some of the scales of interest in this study, participants who identified as Independents and “Others”, “No answer”, or “No preference” were dropped from the analysis. This resulted in a sample size of 83 participants (73.5% Democrats and 26.5% Republicans).

The second reporting error is specifically in reference to the result section. Additional analysis revealed a significant score difference in attitudes towards the poor between participants who identified as Democrats (M = 4.02, SD = 1.16) and those who identified as Republicans (M = 3.31, SD = 1.24); t(81) = −2.72, p=.01.

After reviewing these errors, results remained entirely consistent with those reported in the published article. While these reporting mistakes did not place our findings in jeopardy, we sincerely regret the error.

Table 2 Hierarchical regression analysis predicting attitudes towards the poor