The Role of Moral Emotions in Predicting Support for Political Actions in Post-War Iraq

By Sabrina Pagano, Yuen J. Huo. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

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Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors (2015, background): “However, in a similar line of research, Pagano and Huo (2007) found that guilt predicted reparative actions.”
Influence of Hostile Media Perception on Willingness to Engage in Discursive Activities: An Examination of Mediating Role of Media Indignation (2008, background): “…from perceived injustice is found to be a key motivating factor for actions, including actions to seek redress (e.g., Barclay, Skarlicki, & Pugh, 2005) and engagement in political activities aimed at larger goals (de Rivera, Gerstmann, & Maisels, 2002; Foster & Rusbult, 1999; Pagano & Huo, 2007).”
The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Conflict Resolution (2019, unknown): “Regarding the role that empathy can have in people who are not directly involved in a conflict, a study on American students observed that self-reports of general empathy for people in Iraq were positively correlated with the support of humanitarian actions (Pagano & Huo, 2007).”
Consumer outrage: Emotional reactions to unethical corporate behavior ☆ (2012, background): “Moral outrage predicts support for preventative and punitive political action (Pagano & Huo, 2007).”
Whites for racial justice: How contact with Black Americans predicts support for collective action among White Americans (2018, background): “Indeed, Pagano and Huo (2007) found that empathy predicted behaviors aimed at alleviating suffering (e.g., providing humanitarian aid), but was less predictive of political actions aimed at changing unjust systems; instead, anger was more strongly predictive of political actions aimed at seeking…”
Relative Deprivation (2014, background): “In contrast to other emotions, angry resentment (a) directs attention to the social system that produced the inequality, (b) is often a publicly shared and socially supported emotion, and (c) is a less ephemeral and more clearly moral emotion (Leach et al., 2002; Pagano & Huo, 2007; Runciman, 1966).”
Understanding the power of the picture: the effect of image content on emotional and political responses to terrorism (2014, background): “Research has shown sympathy to predict support for government policies to help those harmed by injustice, such as African American victims of racial discrimination (Iyer et al., 2003) and Iraqi civilians who have suffered losses from Allied bombings during the war (Pagano & Huo, 2004).”