Facing Threat: The Anxiety Mitigating Quality of Televised Leader Displays in Response to Crisis

• In Event: Advances in Physiology and Politics: Physiological Responses to Political Communication

Brief Overview

This project takes an embodied, performative perspective on political leadership and assesses the anxiety alleviating properties of nonverbal display behavior in the immediate aftermath of foreign or domestic crises.

Authors

• Erik P. Bucy, Texas Tech University

• Zijian Gong, Texas Tech University