Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Information Processing

D. Redlawsk

Jun 2006 · Springer

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As part of the study of emotions and politics, this book explores connections between affect and cognition and their implications for political evaluation, decision and action. Emphasizing theory, methodology and empirical research, Feeling Politics is an important contribution to political science, sociology, psychology and communications.

About the author

TODD BELT Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA KATHLEEN C. BURNS Graduate Student in Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amhers, USA ANN N. CRIGLER Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, University of Southern California, USA CHRISTOPHER ELLIS PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA NEHEMIAH GEVA Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University, USA VINCENT L. HUTCHINGS Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan and a Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research, USA LINDA M. ISBELL Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA MARION JUST Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College and an Associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA LUKE KEELE Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, Ohio State University, USA RICHARD R. LAU Professor of Political Science and Director of the Whitman Center for the Study of Campaigns, Elections, and Democracy, Rutgers University, USA MILTON LODGE Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Stony Brook University, USA MICHAEL B. MACKUEN Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA GEORGE E. MARCUS Professor of Political Science, Williams College, USA, and President Elect of the International Society of Political Psychology VICTOR C. OTTATI has served as an Assistant Professor, SUNY-Stony Brook (Department of Political Science) and Purdue University (Department of Psychological Sciences), USA TASHA S. PHILPOT Assistant Professor of Government and African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA DAWN T. ROBINSON Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia, USA, Deputy Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction (LaSSI), University of Georgia J MARK SKORICK Tower Fellow with the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA MARCO R. STEENBERGEN Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA CHARLES TABER Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, USA LISA TROYER Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Iowa, USA NICHOLAS A. VALENTINO Associate Professor of Communications Studies and Political Science, and Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, USA CHRISTOPHER WEBER Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, USA ISMAIL K. WHITE Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin, USA JENNIFER WOLAK Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA