Emotional Policy: Personal Sadness and Anger Shape Judgments about a Welfare Case

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Feeling Like My Self: Emotion Profiles and Social Identity (2013, background): “…and Verrochi 2009), while feeling sadness in response to the plight of others promotes assessments that situations rather than individuals are to blame for needy circumstances (Small and Lerner 2008) and leads to a willingness to engage in prosocial helping behaviors (Small and Verrochi 2009).”
Compassion for climate change victims and support for mitigation policy (2016, background): “Second, with regards to the deep-seated political polarization on climate change, previous psychology and communication research suggests that emotions can affect policy preferences that are typically strongly linked to political ideology (Kühne& Schemer, 2015; Small & Lerner, 2008).”
Emotions Matter in Crisis (2011, background): “Small and Lerner (2008) also compared the effects of sadness and anger on welfare policy preferences and found that the differences in depth of processing in sadness and anger resulted in the differences in policy preferences.”
The Case for Emphasizing Discrete Emotions in Communication Research (2010, background): “Relatedly, evidence also indicates that incidental anger and sadness generate differences in policy preferences (Small & Lerner, 2008).”
How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “2013), while sadness and anger cause higher and lower support for welfare, respectively (Petersen 2010; Petersen et al. 2012; Small and Lerner 2008).”