I don’t always engage in on-line information processing, but when I do, it’s because I am experiencing heighted physiological arousal

• In Event: Advances in Physiology and Politics: Pre-analysis Plans to Study Tolerance and Information Processing

Brief Overview

The consequences of physiological arousal for processing political information are gauged in an experiment involving exposure to politically offensive memes.

Authors

• Frank John Gonzalez, University of Arizona

• Johnathan Caleb Peterson, Palo Alto College

• Stephen Schneider, Purdue