Political Feelings: Emotions as Motivated Reasoning in Vote Choice in the 2020 Presidential Election

• In Event: Presidential Campaigns

Brief Overview

This paper builds on the author’s previous (Yates 2016, 2018)work on emotions in politics to examine how voters’ emotional response to presidential candidates function as a form of motivated reasoning in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Author

• Heather E. Yates, University of Central Arkansas