The Problem With Protests: Emotional Effects of Race-Related News Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-643
Author(s):  
David Stamps ◽  
Dana Mastro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Intergroup Emotions ◽  
Intergroup Emotions Theory ◽  
Emotional Effects

It is well documented that news media’s coverage of social unrest is sensationalized; however, our knowledge is limited in understanding how the intersection of race with depictions of social unrest influences emotional responses to this content. By applying assumptions from the protest paradigm and intergroup emotions theory, the current set of studies experimentally examines this relationship. Results indicate that racialized news images of dramatized social unrest provoke heightened, complex group-based affective responses that vary based on aspects of psychological group identification among audiences. These outcomes suggest that journalistic practices, whether or not intentionally, may exacerbate race relations regarding social change.

Moving Figures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sixth Generation ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Raymond Williams

This book examines how the films of the Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke evoke the affective “felt” experience of China’s contemporary social and economic transformations, by examining the class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual, and entrepreneur that are found in the films. Each chapter analyzes a figure’s socio-historical context, its filmic representation, and its recurring cinematic tropes in order to understand how they create what Raymond Williams calls “structures of feeling” – feelings that concretize around particular times, places, generations, and classes that are captured and evoked in art – and charts how this felt experience has changed over the past forty years of China’s economic reforms. The book argues that that Jia’s cinema should be understood not just as narratives that represent Chinese social change, but also as an effort to engage the audience’s emotional responses during this period of China’s massive and fast-paced transformation.

Athletes’ Social Identities: Their Influence on Precompetitive Group-Based Emotions

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 380-385
Author(s):  
Mickaël Campo ◽  
Diane Mackie ◽  
Stéphane Champely ◽  
Marie-Françoise Lacassagne ◽  
Julien Pellet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Multiple Targets ◽  
Intergroup Emotions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Intergroup Emotions Theory ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Face Task

This research studied the influence of multiple social identities on the emotions that athletes felt toward their teammates/partners and opponents. Athletes (N = 714) from individual and team-based sports reported their identification both as athletes of the sport and as athletes of their club before reporting their precompetitive emotions. The results showed that these multiple social identities influenced precompetitive emotions toward different targets, with higher levels of sport identification associated with increased positive and decreased negative emotions toward opponents and higher levels of club identification associated with increased positive and decreased negative emotions toward teammates/partners, although increased club identification was also associated with more positive emotions toward opponents. These findings extend intergroup emotions theory by showing its suitability and applicability to face-to-face task-oriented teams in sport. Particularly, they highlight the importance of investigating the simultaneous level of multiple social identities, rather than only a dichotomic self-categorization, on group-based emotions experienced toward multiple targets.

Media and Emotion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin L. Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Processing Depth ◽  
Feeling States ◽  
The Media ◽  
Emotional Effects

Emotion has been incorporated into media effects research in multiple ways, which can be broadly summarized as considering emotion as a predictor of media selection, an outcome of media exposure, and a mediator of other psychological and behavioral outcomes resulting from media exposure. Specifically, evidence suggests that the desire for particular feeling states influences the media that people choose to consume. Much research also considers the feeling states resulting from exposure, including fright reactions and enjoyment. Finally, there are well-established lines of inquiry into how emotional responses to media influence the processing of those messages in terms of attention, processing depth, and cognitive and behavioral outcomes. More contemporary research is extending these research programs, examining how emotional media messages are socially shared with others as well as the positive emotional effects that may emerge in response to media exposure.

Conversion vs. Tolerance

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 755-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Shaffer ◽  
Radmila Prislin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Influence Strategies ◽  
Influence Strategy ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Group Loyalty

Past research has documented that social change has different implications for group identification when it is effected through successful minority’s advocacy for tolerance of diversity vs. conversion of opponents to supporters. Extending these findings, the current study demonstrated that minorities who successfully advocated tolerance, compared to those who successfully converted opponents, were more loyal to the group. This was evident in their working harder for the group at their own personal expense and without expecting anything in return. The effect of influence strategy on group loyalty was mediated by evaluative and cognitive components of group identification. Implications for group dynamics in which active minorities employ different influence strategies and their motivational underpinnings are discussed.

“Hobson’s choice” servicescape: consumer anxiety and enjoyment

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milos Bujisic ◽  
Vanja Bogicevic ◽  
Wan Yang ◽  
Cihan Cobanoglu ◽  
Anil Bilgihan
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
True Choice

Purpose A Hobson’s choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. The aim of this study is to examine dimensions of “Hobson’s choice” servicescape and their effect on affective responses and to understand how affective responses drive consumer decisions in “true choice” and “Hobson’s choice” servicescapes. Design/methodology/approach Two studies have been conducted. The first study used mixed methods approach (focus groups and online survey) to examine dimensions of “Hobson’s choice” servicescape. The second study used a scenario-based experimental design to compare the effect of enjoyment and anxiety on consumer decisions in “true choice” and “Hobson’s choice” servicescapes. Findings Study 1 results indicate that hedonic and utilitarian servicescape attributes have a different effect on contrasting emotional responses. This study reveals a positive relationship between consumer enjoyment and hedonic stimuli in Hobson’s choice servicescape. Furthermore, inadequate utilitarian servicescape dimensions cause consumer anxiety. Study 2 results indicate that enjoyment plays a more important role in consumer decision-making in true choice settings, whereas anxiety is more important in Hobson’s choice settings. Research limitations/implications Hobson’s choice settings should focus on servicescape features that reduce anxiety and thus lead to affirmative consumer decisions. On the other hand, true choice settings should try to improve consumer enjoyment to create affirmative consumer decisions. Originality/value This is the first study to examine and compare drivers of consumer’s emotions and their effect on consumer decisions in Hobson’s choice and true choice servicescapes.

scholarly journals Self-regulation via neural simulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (36) ◽  
pp. 10037-10042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gilead ◽  
Chelsea Boccagno ◽  
Melanie Silverman ◽  
Ran R. Hassin ◽  
Jochen Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Neural Simulation ◽  
The World ◽  
Amygdala Activity ◽  
State Inference

Can taking the perspective of other people modify our own affective responses to stimuli? To address this question, we examined the neurobiological mechanisms supporting the ability to take another person’s perspective and thereby emotionally experience the world as they would. We measured participants’ neural activity as they attempted to predict the emotional responses of two individuals that differed in terms of their proneness to experience negative affect. Results showed that behavioral and neural signatures of negative affect (amygdala activity and a distributed multivoxel pattern reflecting affective negativity) simulated the presumed affective state of the target person. Furthermore, the anterior medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)—a region implicated in mental state inference—exhibited a perspective-dependent pattern of connectivity with the amygdala, and the multivoxel pattern of activity within the mPFC differentiated between the two targets. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on perspective-taking and self-regulation.

scholarly journals The white-seared landscape: Walkabout as iconic Australian counterculture

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Jack McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Sacred Land

Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, a 1971 Australian New Wave film, has ignited and continues to ignite a deep desire in its audience to ruminate and engage with Aboriginal political discourse. This seminal work emerged out of social unrest for the injustices performed on Aborigines at the time, and made a definitive mark on how Australian’s think about race relations, intercultural understanding, and the place of empathy and thoughtfulness in a shifting and vibrant political landscape. Through the film, Roeg highlights the importance of sacred land and cultural heritage to the Aboriginal people, and the obligation white Australia has to respect and appreciate such a deep and fundamental component of the continent’s history.

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