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An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies. / Robinson, Michael D.; Boyd, Ryan L.; Fetterman, Adam K.
In: Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 71, 01.12.2014, p. 98-102.

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Robinson, MD, Boyd, RL & Fetterman, AK 2014, 'An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies', Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 71, pp. 98-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.039

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Robinson, M. D., Boyd, R. L., & Fetterman, A. K. (2014). An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies. Personality and Individual Differences, 71, 98-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.039

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Robinson MD, Boyd RL, Fetterman AK. An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies. Personality and Individual Differences. 2014 Dec 1;71:98-102. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.039

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Robinson, Michael D. ; Boyd, Ryan L. ; Fetterman, Adam K. / An emotional signature of political ideology : Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies. In: Personality and Individual Differences. 2014 ; Vol. 71. pp. 98-102.

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title = "An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies",
abstract = "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.",
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KW - Anxiety

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