Not All Negative Affect Is Created Equal: The Detrimental Consequences of Affective Polarization

• In Event: In Your Feelings: Emotions in Politics

Brief Overview

Unpacking the negative affect captured by feeling thermometers, we test whether experiencing fear, disgust or anger in response to political out-groups lead to avoidant, intolerant or violent behavioural tendencies respectively.

Author

• Haylee Kelsall, University of Amsterdam