Irrelevant Events, Mood, and the Good Citizen

• In Event: How Voters Decide

Brief Overview

We present a survey experiment that isolates the causal effects of irrelevant events on individuals’ mood and political opinions, providing valid individual-level measures and a more direct test of the mediating effects of mood than earlier studies.

Authors

• Brad T. Gomez, Florida State University

• Taylor Kinsley Chewning, Florida State University