Extensive survey and experimental research on citizens’ inattentiveness to political news has bui... more Extensive survey and experimental research on citizens’ inattentiveness to political news has built a theoretical base for understanding political judgment in the American electorate. The research, however, has a strong cognitive orientation with surprisingly little attention to the dynamic interaction between emotional and attentional factors. When emotions are addressed there has been a marked emphasis on issues of negativity and incivility and relative neglect of other emotional dimensions. Further, when explicit news stories are part of the research design they have tended to focus on unusually dramatic events or the more vitriolic electoral battles. To broaden our understanding of these potential emotional influences we assessed levels of enthusiasm, aversion and anxiety in response to brief summaries of 50 news stories of diverse character and provenance selected to be representative of quotidian news. The analysis reveals dramatic variation across news stories and across subjects responding to the same story on all three of these emotional dimensions. We also examine an unexpected inverse correlation between education and level of emotional response to news.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Marcus, George E., 1943-The sentimental citix... more Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Marcus, George E., 1943-The sentimental citixen: emotion in democratic politics/George E. Marcus. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-02211-6 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-271-02212-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) ...
Converse's definition of ideological contraint is expanded to provide for various respondent... more Converse's definition of ideological contraint is expanded to provide for various respondent identified ideological dimensions rather than an all encompassing liberal-conservative dimension. Using this redefinition a sample of adults is shown to have high levels of ideological constraint. ...
Page 206. 9 Disjunction and Ambivalence in Citizens' Political Outlooks Jennifer... more Page 206. 9 Disjunction and Ambivalence in Citizens' Political Outlooks Jennifer L. Hochschild In the 1950s, political scientists and pundits rediscovered the question that so worried James Madison and his companions: Is the ...
Extensive survey and experimental research on citizens’ inattentiveness to political news has bui... more Extensive survey and experimental research on citizens’ inattentiveness to political news has built a theoretical base for understanding political judgment in the American electorate. The research, however, has a strong cognitive orientation with surprisingly little attention to the dynamic interaction between emotional and attentional factors. When emotions are addressed there has been a marked emphasis on issues of negativity and incivility and relative neglect of other emotional dimensions. Further, when explicit news stories are part of the research design they have tended to focus on unusually dramatic events or the more vitriolic electoral battles. To broaden our understanding of these potential emotional influences we assessed levels of enthusiasm, aversion and anxiety in response to brief summaries of 50 news stories of diverse character and provenance selected to be representative of quotidian news. The analysis reveals dramatic variation across news stories and across subjects responding to the same story on all three of these emotional dimensions. We also examine an unexpected inverse correlation between education and level of emotional response to news.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Marcus, George E., 1943-The sentimental citix... more Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Marcus, George E., 1943-The sentimental citixen: emotion in democratic politics/George E. Marcus. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-02211-6 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-271-02212-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) ...
Converse's definition of ideological contraint is expanded to provide for various respondent... more Converse's definition of ideological contraint is expanded to provide for various respondent identified ideological dimensions rather than an all encompassing liberal-conservative dimension. Using this redefinition a sample of adults is shown to have high levels of ideological constraint. ...
Page 206. 9 Disjunction and Ambivalence in Citizens' Political Outlooks Jennifer... more Page 206. 9 Disjunction and Ambivalence in Citizens' Political Outlooks Jennifer L. Hochschild In the 1950s, political scientists and pundits rediscovered the question that so worried James Madison and his companions: Is the ...
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