The Emotional Foundations of Public Support for Military Action: Evidence from U.S. and Japanese Public Opinion

• In Event: Political Psychology in International Relations

Brief Overview

The authors lay out a novel affective microfoundation of foreign policy preference formation, applying the insights of latest emotion research to disentangle the distinct behavioral effects of fear versus anger on public support for military action.

Authors

• Joshua Byun, The University of Chicago

• Nicholas Campbell-Serementis, The University of Chicago

• D.G. Kim, University of California, San Diego