Catching My Anger: How Political Elites Create Angrier Citizens

2021 ◽  
pp. 106591292110269
Author(s):  
Carey E. Stapleton ◽  
Ryan Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Linkage Effect ◽  
State Of Mind

Anger is a common feature in contemporary American politics. Through the process of affect linkage, we argue that one way the electorate becomes angrier about politics is by observing angry displays from political elites. Affect linkage occurs when a person’s emotional state of mind changes to match the emotions displayed by someone else. Using an online experiment in which subjects are randomly exposed to an angry or unemotional debate between a Democrat and Republican running for Congress, we show that exposure to an angry in-party politician significantly increases the amount of anger, disgust, and outrage expressed by co-rank-and-file partisans. This increase in aversive emotions, moreover, increases the likelihood that citizens report the intention to vote, and this affect linkage effect is most pronounced in those who are most likely to stay home on election day: the weakest partisans. Interestingly, angry rhetoric by political elites does not have any effect on out-partisans, suggesting that anger via emotional contagion does not cross party lines.

scholarly journals Can news with positive or negative content affect and a relaxation pause improve the emotional state of health care professionals? A randomized online experiment during COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 100441
Author(s):  
Paulo Rodrigo Bazán ◽  
Raymundo Machado de Azevedo Neto ◽  
Shirley Silva Lacerda ◽  
Maurício Watanabe Ribeiro ◽  
Joana Bisol Balardin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Online Experiment

scholarly journals The Translation of Ellipsis as Identity Marker in the Literary Dialogue

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Mona Arhire
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Loss Of Information ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Formal Equivalence ◽  
Languages In Contact ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
State Of Mind

AbstractApart from the ellipsis occurring in discourse as a fairly common cohesive device, the literary dialogue oftentimes uses ellipsis as a stylistic or rhetorical device or as a means of endowing characters with idiolectal or sociolectal features. This paper examines such instances of ellipsis which contribute to the construction of the literary heroes’ identity through their speech, while providing them with features distinguishing them from the other characters either in terms of social identity or emotional state. The study is based on examples depicted from the dialogue of a number of literary works written in English and selected so as to exhibit a variety of functions which ellipsis acquires to complete some heroes’ identity or state of mind. Considering the importance of the information embedded in such ellipses, a contrastive approach to translation is obvious. The analysis focuses on the translation of ellipsis from English into Romanian and scrutinizes the situations when structural differences between English and Romanian prevent formal equivalence, which triggers an important loss of information in translation. The findings lead to conclusions relative to translation solutions that can be adopted to compensate for the scarcity of structural similarities between the two languages in contact in translation.

Partisan Media and Polarization: Challenges for Future Work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Levendusky
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
Partisan Media ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Population Effects

Four potential mechanisms explore the linkages between partian media outlets and attitudinal polarization, as well as discusses how such outlets cause polarization and influence American politics more generally: partisan media outlets can have direct effects on their audience, indirect effects on the broader population, effects on the news media, and effects on political elites. Some challenges and questions remain to be answered in each area in the hopes of spurring more, and broader, work on these media institutions.

The Influence of Previous Personality on Reactions to Having Terminal Cancer

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Emotional Disturbance ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Terminal Cancer ◽  
Terminally Ill Cancer Patients ◽  
Senior Nurse ◽  
State Of Mind

This study of 60 married, terminally-ill cancer patients, 22 males and 38 females inquired into associations between the descriptions of each patient's personality and state of mind before and during his/her last illness. Previous information concerning character, marriage, and religious traits was obtained through interviews with the patient's spouse. Information about the patient's feelings and reactions during the illness came from interviews with the patient, spouse, and senior nurse. The results deviate from some pre-conceived beliefs. For instance, less stable people did not show appreciably more emotional disturbance during their terminal illness. While the techniques of group investigations have limitations in their application to any particular individual, they do uncover information which is valuable in understanding the emotional state of the terminally ill.

Women Support Providers Are More Susceptible Than Men to Emotional Contagion Following Brief Supportive Interactions

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eran Magen ◽  
Paul A. Konasewich
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Support Providers ◽  
Naturalistic Setting

People in distress often turn to friends for emotional support. Ironically, although receiving emotional support contributes to emotional and physical health, providing emotional support may be distressing as a result of emotional contagion. Women have been found to be more susceptible than men to emotional contagion in certain contexts, but no studies examined the context of providing support to a troubled friend in a naturalistic setting. Our exploratory study aimed to test for gender differences in emotional contagion as a result of offering emotional support to a troubled friend. We studied naturalistic informal supportive interactions among 48 pairs of friends. Following an 8-min interaction with a troubled friend, (a) women were more likely than men to experience a deterioration in their positive emotional state and (b) changes in women’s emotional state were positively correlated with changes in their troubled friends’ emotional state, whereas changes in male support providers’ emotional state were unrelated to changes in their troubled friends’ emotional state. These results suggest that women are more susceptible than men to emotional contagion following brief interactions with a troubled friend, thereby highlighting the importance of conducting additional research into the costs and benefits of exchanging emotional support among friends.

scholarly journals Nothing to Be Happy about: Consumer Emotions and AI

J ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 784-793
Author(s):  
Mateja Durovic ◽  
Jonathon Watson
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Recent Proposal ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Consumer Emotions ◽  
State Of Mind

Advancements in artificial intelligence and Big Data allow for a range of goods and services to determine and respond to a consumer’s emotional state of mind. Considerable potential surrounds the technological ability to detect and respond to an individual’s emotions, yet such technology is also controversial and raises questions surrounding the legal protection of emotions. Despite their highly sensitive and private nature, this article highlights the inadequate protection of emotions in aspects of data protection and consumer protection law, arguing that the contribution by recent proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act is not only unsuitable to overcome such deficits but does little to support the assertion that emotions are highly sensitive.

scholarly journals Is Empathy Always Good?

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
M. Rossi Monti
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
State Of Mind

Empathy is a complex phenomenon. First of all empathy means the capacity to understand someone else’s state of mind or to identify with his emotional state. From this point of view, empathy plays a fundamental role in psychotherapy and has been studied as a fundamental therapeutic factor. It is true that an emphatic attitude can help other people and lead to a better understanding of their feelings. But empathy can also be used as a horrible instrument to manipulate and abuse the other. We can see this kind of malign empathy in perverted narcissistic relationships, in sadism or in torture, where the torturer can use empathy in order to figure out the most effective ways to make each of his victims suffer.

The Role of Political Elites in Eliciting Mass-Level Political Anger

The Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-437
Author(s):  
Steven W. Webster
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Liberal Democrats ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
To Come ◽  
Mass Level

Abstract Contemporary American politics is notable for its high levels of anger and partisan antipathy. While these developments are attributable in large part to societal-level sociopolitical trends, I argue that they are also the result of politicians’ deliberate and strategic attempts to elicit mass-level anger. In this paper, I analyze over one million tweets sent by members of the 116th Congress to demonstrate that political elites do appeal to anger and that the angriest of these appeals are most likely to come from the most ideologically extreme Members of Congress – that is, the most liberal Democrats and the most conservative Republicans. I further show that this relationship is stronger for Democratic politicians, and that authoring tweets with a greater amount of anger generates more engagement. The results suggest that as long as politicians have an incentive to appeal to mass-level anger, the divisions characterizing American politics are likely to persist.

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