Efficacy, Emotions and the Habit of Participation

Valentino, Nicholas A.; Gregorowicz, Krysha; Groenendyk, Eric W.

doi:10.1007/s11109-008-9076-7

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“…Emotions have a substantial impact on political attitudes (e.g., Banks and Valentino 2012;Hatemi et al 2013) and behaviors (e.g., Brader et al 2008;Brader 2005;Marcus et al 2000;Panagopoulos 2011;Valentino et al 2011), and help to solve collective action problems in political participation (Groenendyk 2011;Valentino et al 2008). A growing body of research in political science and psychology demonstrates that discrete emotions, such as anger, fear, and anxiety, have distinct effects on political outcomes.…”

Section: State and Trait Emotions In Political Researchmentioning

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How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes

Clifford

Wendell

2015

Polit Behav

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Food and health regulations are increasingly being pushed onto the political agenda, with rising concerns about genetically modified foods, obesity rates, and vaccination. Public beliefs and attitudes on these issues often conflict with the scientific evidence, yet we know relatively little about what influences opinion on these issues. The public lacks clear partisan cues, and many food and health attitudes cut across the ideological spectrum. We argue that these issues represent new 'purity' attitudes that are driven by the emotion of disgust. Across three studies, both by measuring individuals' trait disgust sensitivity and experimentally inducing an emotional state of disgust, we demonstrate the impact of disgust on food and health policy attitudes. Our results show that greater sensitivity to disgust is associated with support for organic foods, opposition to genetically modified foods, and anti-vaccination beliefs. However, we find only limited evidence that experimentally manipulated disgust affects attitudes toward genetically modified and organic foods. Overall, our results demonstrate that disgust plays an important role in attitudes regarding public health and broadens our understanding of purity attitudes.

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Section: State and Trait Emotions In Political Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes

Clifford

Wendell

2015

Polit Behav

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“…For, even if one does subscribe to the above critiques of voice/agency, these critiques are not universally applicable. Indeed, there is nothing of necessity wrong with using emotion as a way to highlight how, for instance, anger might be a key driver to children's engagement in decision-making (Valentino et al, 2009). …”

Section: Going Beyond 'Voice' And/or (Independent) 'Agency'?mentioning

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Beyond ‘voice’, beyond ‘agency’, beyond ‘politics’? Hybrid childhoods and some critical reflections on children's emotional geographies

Kraftl

2013

Emotion, Space and Society

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In this paper I argue that a significant proportion of research on children's emotional geographies has been deployed to reinforce the importance of children's 'voices', their (independent) 'agency', and the various ways in which voice/agency maybe deemed 'political'. Without wishing to dismiss or dispense with such approaches, I explore potential ways to go 'beyond' concerns with voice/agency/politics. Initially, I review studies of children's participation (and participatory methods), activism and everyday lives that mobilise emotion and affect in productive ways. I contrast such studies with important questions raised by a reinvigoration of interest in the need for children to be able to represent themselves. I then explore the possibilities raised by so-called 'hybrid' conceptions of childhood -which go beyond biosocial dualisms -to enable further strides beyond voice/agency. Drawing on examples from alternative education and contemporary attachment theories, I explore some potential implications for children's emotional geographies and relational geographies of age of what I term 'more-than-social' emotional relations. Yet I do not offer an unequivocal endorsement of these hybrid emotions. Thus, I end the paper by issuing some words of caution -both in terms of the critical questions raised by more-thansocial emotional relations, specifically, and in terms of engendering broader debate about how and why scholars do (children's) emotional geographies. KeywordsChildren's geographies; emotion and affect; biosocial dualism; alternative education; attachment theory; family and intergenerational relations 2

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“…They posit that such correlations across time may have at least five different potential causes: (i) increased campaign activity focused on previous voters, (ii) alterations in individuals' broad political orientations, (iii) increased positive attitudes towards the act of voting, (iv) lowering informational barriers to the act of voting, and (v) alterations in individual self-conceptualizations to encompass regular voting as part of self-image. Other scholarly work on this question has primarily placed the development of regular voting patterns as a result of one or all of these related factors (see also Fowler 2006;Kanazawa 2000;Valentino et al 2009). Despite this movement toward empirical demonstrations of habit, the inability to settle on the reason for repeated behavior has left the theory of habitual turnout undeveloped.…”

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Turnout as a Habit

2010

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It is conventional to speak of voting as ''habitual.'' But what does this mean? In psychology, habits are cognitive associations between repeated responses and stable features of the performance context. Thus, ''turnout habit'' is best measured by an index of repeated behavior and a consistent performance setting. Once habit associations form, the response can be cued even in the absence of supporting beliefs and motivations. Therefore, variables that form part of the standard cognitive-based accounts of turnout should be more weakly related to turnout among those with a strong habit. We draw evidence from a large array of ANES surveys to test these hypotheses and find strong support. Keywords Habit Á Voter turnout Á AutomaticityTurnout to vote is one of the fundamental acts of democratic politics. As such, there has been a huge literature seeking to understand it-and a great deal has been learned. Even though a wide panoply of factors are, as hypothesized, related to turnout, those that are also related to candidate choice are almost invariably more strongly related to vote choice than to the decision to turnout. For example, Campbell et al. found that the Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Efficacy, Emotions and the Habit of Participation

Cited by 271 publications

References 42 publications

How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes

How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes

Beyond ‘voice’, beyond ‘agency’, beyond ‘politics’? Hybrid childhoods and some critical reflections on children's emotional geographies

Turnout as a Habit

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