Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism: A National Field Experiment

Lerner, Jennifer S.; Gonzalez, Roxana M.; Small, Deborah A.; Fischhoff, Baruch

doi:10.1037/e617892011-049

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“…As discussed earlier, anger and fear although both negative, differ significantly in their underlying appraisals of certainty and control which make anger optimistic and fear pessimistic (Lerner and Keltner 2001). These differences also make anger (vs. fear) more punitive (Goldberg et al 1999), more risk seeking (Lerner et al 2003), careless in their thoughts (Bodenhausen et al 1994), and quick to act (Harmon-Jones et al 2003). Prior research has shown that the appraisal of certainty specifically, affects information processing such that high (e.g., anger) [vs. low (fear)] levels of certainty lead to more heuristic (vs. systematic) information processing, regardless of the valence of the emotion (Tiedens and Linton 2001).…”

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Anger Strays, Fear Refrains: The Differential Effect of Negative Emotions on Consumers’ Ethical Judgments

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Although various factors have been studied for their influence on consumers' ethical judgments, the role of incidental emotions has received relatively less attention. Recent research in consumer behavior has focused on studying the effect of specific incidental emotions on various aspects of consumer decision making. This paper investigates the effect of two negative, incidental emotional states of anger and fear on ethical judgment in a consumer context using a passive unethical behavior scenario (i.e., too much change received). The paper presents two experimental studies. Study 1 focuses on the interaction of moral intensity (amount of change) and incidental emotion state in predicting the ethical judgment while study 2 investigates the underlying causal mechanism behind the process, using a mediation analysis. The results reveal a significant interaction between moral intensity and incidental emotion. Specifically, individuals in the state of incidental fear exhibit higher levels of ethical judgment as the moral intensity increases as compared to individuals in the state of incidental anger. Further, perceived control is found to mediate the relationship between emotional state and ethical judgment under higher moral intensity condition.

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“…Lerner and Keltner (2001) find that these differences lead to angry individuals behaving more optimistically as compared to fearful individuals. Lerner et al (2003) also propose that emotions of anger and fear have differential influence on perceptions of risk and policy preferences by subjects.…”

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Anger Strays, Fear Refrains: The Differential Effect of Negative Emotions on Consumers’ Ethical Judgments

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“…2 Graphs depicting the effect of anger on willingness to punish companies that obstruct climate efforts, by social distance and political affiliation. Error bars represent mean standard errors in the context of terrorism (Lerner et al 2003). For instance, given that large oil industries produce products that consumers purchase, who is to blame for the burning of fossil fuels-industry or individuals?…”

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“…Surprisingly, however, the role of emotions-an omnipresent situational variable that has been shown to influence public opinion about other timely and consequential issues of international import (Lerner et al 2003)-has received little attention in this domain. As an initial step toward addressing this gap, we report on an experiment involving more than 700 U.S. respondents that investigated how the incidental activation of either of two discrete negative emotions-namely, guilt and anger-might influence people's support for different policy proposals aimed at mitigating climate change.…”

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Exploring the role of incidental emotions in support for climate change policy

Schuldt

2015

Climatic Change

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What role, if any, do incidental emotions play in people's beliefs about climate change and support for climate mitigation policies? This question has received surprisingly little attention, despite a growing recognition that reactions to climate change information are shaped by various contextual factors beyond the information itself. Drawing on recent perspectives in psychology and communication, we conducted an experiment (N=719) in which participants were randomly assigned to one of two emotion-induction treatments (guilt or anger) or to a no-emotion (neutral) control condition immediately before reading a news story about negative climate impacts and reporting on related policy preferences (e.g., support for taxing carbon polluters). Results revealed a number of significant effects, some of which emerged for the sample overall (e.g., guilt increased support for particular climate mitigation policies) and some that depended on personal and message factors suggested by prior research (e.g., political affiliation and social distance). Overall, these findings suggest that emotions may play an important role in guiding how the public processes and reacts to information about climate change.

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“…Insbesondere bei Jugendlichen ist der wahrgenommene Nutzen von Aktivitäten wie Rauchen, Alkoholoder Drogenkonsum häufig ein besserer Prädiktor für Risikoverhalten als das wahrgenommene Risiko [16]. Im Bereich der negativen Gefühle ist von Bedeutung, ob ein Risiko eher mit ängstlichen oder mit wütenden Reaktion verbunden wird; einer amerikanischen Studie zufolge wird die Wahrnehmung von Terrorrisiken eher durch Angstgefühle als durch Ärger verstärkt [17].…”

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Perception of health risks

Kurzenhäuser

Epp

2009

Bundesgesundheitsbl.

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This article reviews central findings and current developments of psychological and sociological research on the perception of health risks. Risk perception is influenced by numerous psychological, social, political, and cultural factors. These factors can be categorized into (a) risk characteristics, (b) characteristics of the risk perceiving person and his/her situation, and (c) characteristics of risk communication. Thus, besides individual cognitive and affective processing of risk information, social processes of risk amplification (e.g., media effects) are also involved in the construction of individual risk perceptions. We discuss the recommendations for health risk communication that follow from these findings with regard to different communication goals.

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Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism: A National Field Experiment

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Anger Strays, Fear Refrains: The Differential Effect of Negative Emotions on Consumers’ Ethical Judgments

Anger Strays, Fear Refrains: The Differential Effect of Negative Emotions on Consumers’ Ethical Judgments

Exploring the role of incidental emotions in support for climate change policy

Perception of health risks

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