The (null) effects of happiness on affective polarization and misinformation beliefs: Evidence from five survey experiments in three countries

• In Event: Affective Polarization

Brief Overview

Across five preregistered survey experiments in the US, Poland, and the Netherlands, we find that experimentally induced happiness (and in study 4 and 5, also anger and anxiety) has no effects on affective polarization and beliefs in misinformation.

Authors

• Xudong Yu, University of California, Davis

• Magdalena Wojcieszak, UC Davis

• Seungsu Lee, University of California, Davis

• Tomasz Gackowski, University of Warsaw