Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet

By Nicholas A. Valentino, Vincent L. Hutchings, A. Banks, A. Davis. 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation (2015, background): “Angry individuals are also less likely to consider and learn from new information (Valentino et al., 2008).”
Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior (2019, background): “Fear and anxiety lead individuals to break with their habitual political attachments and seek out messages that contradict their predispositions (Valentino et al., 2008; Vasilopoulos et al., 2016).”
Motivating Action through Fostering Climate Change Hope and Concern and Avoiding Despair among Adolescents (2015, background): “Within the realm of political psychology, anxiety and worry are linked to deliberation and critical thinking [36], in which individuals take time to cognitively appraise the situation and decide how to move forward [37].”
The social media political participation model: A goal systems theory perspective (2020, background): “A number of studies have shown that anxiety can trigger information processing and increase the perceived relevance of an issue (e.g. MacKuen et al., 2010; Valentino et al., 2008).”
Efficacy, Emotions and the Habit of Participation (2009, background): “Other work ( Valentino et al. 2008 ; W eber2008) has found distinct impacts of anger and fear on information seeking and learning.”
Emotional Awareness: On the Importance of Including Emotional Aspects in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2013, unknown): “of anxiety and worry as a necessary precondition for deliberation and critical thinking (Brader, 2006; Marcus, 2002; Marcus et al., 2000; Marcus et al., 2011; Marcus et al., 2005; Valentino et al., 2008; Wolak et al., 2003).”
What Makes Us Click? Demonstrating Incentives for Angry Discourse with Digital-Age Field Experiments (2012, result): “A number of empirical tests confirm these expectations, both with respect to information seeking (Brader, Valentino, and Suhay 2008; Gadarian and Albertson 2010; MacKuen et al. 2010; Redlawsk, Civettini, and Lau 2007; Valentino et al. 2008) and attention (e.”
The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a Function of Political Sophistication (2011, background): “The negative anger effect is consistent with Valentino et al. (2009), but little work suggests how sympathy might affect learning.”
Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review (2021, background): “This resonates with applied research in political psychology showing that anxiety and worry are preconditions for deliberation and critical thinking (30, 31).”
Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks (2018, background): “Several studies in political psychology that generally align with AIT have found that fear enhances information seeking, making citizens more likely to question their prior habits and become more open to persuasion (Albertson & Gadarian, 2015; Brader, 2005; Marcus et al., 2000, 2014; Redlawsk, Civet”
The Influence of Anger, Fear, and Emotion Regulation on Ethical Decision Making (2013, unknown): “Other lines of research support this idea, finding that fear leads people to learn more and become better educated about a topic relative to anger (Marcus, Neuman, & MacKuen, 2000; Parker & Isbell, 2010; Valentino et al., 2008).”
Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information (2014, background): “…& Keltner, 2001; Ottati, 1997; Roseman, Spindel, & Jose, 1990; Smith & Ellsworth, 1985) as well as political scientists (Valentino et al., 2009; Valentino et al., 2008) who found that by asking respondents to go through an exercise of listing their worries that individuals experienced and…”