Election Night’s Alright for Fighting: The Role of Emotions in Political Participation

By Nicholas A. Valentino, Ted Brader, Eric W. Groenendyk, Krysha Gregorowicz, Vincent L. Hutchings. 2011

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

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The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “Just as anxiety and anger work in tandem to confront controllable threats (Valentino et al. 2011), it is quite possible that anxiety helps activate the behavioral immune system.”
The Sword's Other Edge: Perceptions of Discrimination and Racial Policy Opinion after Obama (2011, background): “2005; Druckman and McDermott 2008), and participation (Weber 2008; Valentino et al. 2011).”
Explaining Group Influence: The Role of Identity and Emotion in Political Conformity and Polarization (2015, background): “…emotions and politics scholars have focused on the basic emotions of fear/anxiety, enthusiasm, and anger (e.g., Brader 2006; Gadarian 2010; Huddy, Feldman, and Cassese 2007; Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen 2000; Valentino et al. 2011), leaving self-conscious and other more complex emotions to the side.”
What Makes Us Click? Demonstrating Incentives for Angry Discourse with Digital-Age Field Experiments (2012, background): “2008, 2009), but Huddy, Feldman, and Cassese (2007) find anger to increase consumption of news media related to the Iraq War, and more recent studies find internal efficacy combined with threat to evoke anger, habitual political participation (Valentino, Gregorowicz, and Groenendyk 2009), and mobili”
The Affect Effect of Political Satire: Sarcastic Humor, Negative Emotions, and Political Participation (2014, background): “In addition, numerous studies documented the substantial effect of anger on triggering a citizen’s active orientation (e.g., Huddy, Feldman, & Cassese, 2007; Lerner & Keltner, 2001; Valentino et al., 2011).”
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes toward Immigrants (2018, background): “Anger tends to mobilize all forms of political participation, while fear only mobilizes relatively costless forms of participation (Valentino et al. 2011).”
The Role of Anger in the Biased Assimilation of Political Information (2018, background): “Along these lines, Valentino, Banks, Hutchings, and Davis (2009) conclude in their study of motivated selectivity: “If balanced information is useful [to countering threat], anxious citizens will seek it out.”
Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior (2019, background): “While most research in political science has used self-reports to measure emotion (Valentino et al., 2011), the accuracy of such measures have been questioned because they may be susceptible to social desirability bias (Berinsky, 2004), be inaccurate because people are often unable to pinpoint reaso”