Measuring Simultaneous Emotions: Existing Problems and a New Way Forward
| Autor: | Matthew Rhodes-Purdy, Stephen M. Utych, Rachel Navarre |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Systematic error
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Anger Affect (psychology) Discrete emotions 0506 political science Feeling Respondent 050602 political science & public administration medicine Anxiety Relevance (law) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Psychology media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Political Science. 8:1-14 |
| ISSN: | 2052-2649 2052-2630 |
| Popis: | Studies on discrete emotions typically work to evoke one emotion at a time. Yet many political phenomena cause multiple emotions. Threats, for example, cause, anger, and fear, have diametrically opposing behavioral consequences. As a result, the effect of experimental treatments can be masked by the countervailing influence of emotions with similar affect. This issue is exacerbated by existing measures of negative emotions, such as the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). We show that the PANAS is contaminated by systematic measurement error, as negative affect produced by one emotion influences responses on the other. To overcome this, we develop an alternative version of the PANAS that allows respondents to select which emotions they are feeling, then rate the severity. This technique accurately captures respondent’s emotional reactions, reducing measurement error and thus decreasing the correlation between fear and anger. The tactics we developed have broad relevance for experimental researchers analyzing emotional responses to politics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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