Facing emotional politicians: Examining voters’ response to politicians’ emotional displays

• In Event: Advances in emotions and politics: Advances in emotions and politics: Fake news, faces and threats as sources of emotional responses to politics

Brief Overview

Physiological lab experiment examining the extent to which citizens mimic and are emotionally affected by the emotional expressions of politicians they support and oppose.

Authors

• Maaike Homan, University of Amsterdam

• Gijs Schumacher, University of Amsterdam

• Bert Nico Bakker, University of Amsterdam