Physiological Arousal and Political Beliefs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6337019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Renshon (0000-0003-3688-8526, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Julia Lee Cunningham (0000-0002-6650-7088, Harvard University Press), Jooa Julia Lee (Harvard University), Dustin Tingley (0000-0002-2216-6293, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 569-585 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/pops.12173 |
| OpenAlex | W2139573242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 85 |
It is by now well known that political attitudes can be affected by emotions. Most earlier studies have focused on emotions generated by some political event (e.g., terrorism or increased immigration). However, the methods used in previous efforts have made it difficult to untangle the various causal pathways that might link emotions to political beliefs. In contrast, we focus on emotions incidental (i.e., irrelevant) to the decision process, allowing us to cleanly trace and estimate the effect of experimentally induced anxiety on political beliefs. Further, we build upon innovative new work that links physiological reactivity (Hatemi, McDermott, Eaves, Kendler, & Neale, 2013; Oxley et al., 2008a) to attitudes by using skin conductance reactivity as a measure of emotional arousal. We found that anxiety—generated by a video stimulus—significantly affected physiological arousal as measured by tonic skin‐conductance levels, and that higher physiological reactivity predicted more anti‐immigration attitudes. We show that physiological reactivity mediated the relationship between anxiety and political attitudes
Anxiety · Arousal · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Political psychology · Political science · Politics · Reactivity (psychology · Rumination · Skin conductance · Terrorism · Cultural Differences and Values · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |