Fired Up, Ready to Go: The Effects of Group-Based and Intergroup Emotions in Politics
Year: 2013
Type: preprint
Abstract: Emotions matter in public opinion and political decision-making. Existing literature has examined how individuals experience emotions like anger, anxiety, fear, and disgust, and how these emotions shape a wide range of public opinion and political participation variables. However, this emphasis on individuals provides us with an incomplete picture because ordinary politics are so far removed from our individual lives. That is, much of how we think and behave in the political arena surrounds our membership in groups whether they are gender, partisan, racial, religious, sexual orientation, or otherwise. Thus, presenting us with the following questions: how does group identity shape how we experience emotions? What are the implications of group-based and intergroup emotions for public opinion and political participation? My project uses a survey experiment to examine the political ramifications of group-based pride, shame, and intergroup anger among African-Americans. It will address how eliciting these emotions affect group attitudes, policy opinion, Black Nationalist ideology, and political participation, and provide us with a more nuanced understanding of how individuals think and behave in the political arena.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Camille Burge
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W166748460