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TY - JOUR
T1 - An emotional signature of political ideology
T2 - Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies
AU - Robinson, Michael D.
AU - Boyd, Ryan L.
AU - Fetterman, Adam K.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Approach-avoidance frameworks for political ideology have been proposed with increasing frequency. Following such frameworks and a wider motivation-emotion literature, it was hypothesized that political ideology would be predictive of the extent to which anxiety (avoidance-related) versus anger (approach-related) words would be evident in written texts. Study 1 sampled user-generated text within conservative versus liberal Internet chat rooms. After correcting for the greater normative frequency of anger words, a crossover ideology by emotion type interaction was found. Study 2 found a parallel interaction among college students writing about a non-political topic. Political ideology thus has a discrete emotional signature, one favoring anxiety among conservatives and anger among liberals.
AB - Approach-avoidance frameworks for political ideology have been proposed with increasing frequency. Following such frameworks and a wider motivation-emotion literature, it was hypothesized that political ideology would be predictive of the extent to which anxiety (avoidance-related) versus anger (approach-related) words would be evident in written texts. Study 1 sampled user-generated text within conservative versus liberal Internet chat rooms. After correcting for the greater normative frequency of anger words, a crossover ideology by emotion type interaction was found. Study 2 found a parallel interaction among college students writing about a non-political topic. Political ideology thus has a discrete emotional signature, one favoring anxiety among conservatives and anger among liberals.
KW - Anger
KW - Anxiety
KW - Approach
KW - Avoidance
KW - Linguistic analysis
KW - Political ideology
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.039
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.039
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84906269887
VL - 71
SP - 98
EP - 102
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
ER -