TY - JOUR TI - Undoing violence, unbounding precarity: Beyond the frames of terror in the Philippines AU - Woon, C.Y. T2 - Geoforum AB - Geographers' interest in the productive intersections between fear and issues of (counter)terrorism has flourished in recent years. These studies have been important in their critical analyses of geopolitical relations by exposing how fear has been driving unjust policies and violent initiatives. However, I suggest that these lines of inquiries often neglect the localized playing out of fears, particularly how such sentiments can potentially stimulate actions and affect the practices and progress of politics at different geographical scales. This paper addresses the aforementioned lacuna by scrutinizing how fear is bounded up with the geographical extension of the US-led 'war on terror' to the Philippines in the post 9/11 era. I argue that the framings of terrorism in the country have allowed the government to manipulate fear to justify destructive strategies for the eradication of imminent 'threats'. However such initiatives are not only counterproductive to rooting out the sources of terror but also aid in the (re)production of violence. Not assuming the inevitability of such elegaic outcomes, I showcase the efforts of the Philippines communist 'rebel' group, Rebulusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Mindanao (RPM-M), in repudiating official terrorism discourse by emphasising instead issues of state-induced vulnerability and marginalization. This in turn allows fear to be transformed into other modalities of emotions that are central to the formation of coalitional resistances to the arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes. By illuminating the constitution of (non)violence through emotions, there is an inherent wish to disrupt the natural conjoining of fear, terror and violence dominating contemporary geopolitical imaginations. Crucially, the implications of emotions for the thinking and doing of nonviolence augments a concrete pathway for operationalising a radical praxis of peace and justice that explicitly eschews a resort to force. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. DA - 2011/06// PY - 2011 DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.04.003 VL - 42 IS - 3 SP - 285 EP - 296 SN - 0016-7185 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79958208173&doi=10.1016%2fj.geoforum.2011.04.003&partnerID=40&md5=455d46963eeb738dcaee6d5cdfd59834 AN - WOS:000293058200005 DB - Scopus KW - Precarity KW - marginalization KW - theoretical study KW - Philippines KW - vulnerability KW - foreign policy KW - geopolitics KW - terrorism KW - Emotions KW - Fear KW - political violence KW - 'War on Terror' KW - (Non)Violence KW - Lacuna KW - political theory KW - state role ER - TY - JOUR TI - There's More to the Story: Both Individual and Collective Policy Narratives Can Increase Support for Community-Level Action AU - SKURKA, C. AU - NIEDERDEPPE, J. AU - WINETT, L.B. T2 - International Journal of Communication AB - Narratives can convey the need or community-level action to address social problems. Yet narratives often tell stories about specific individuals rather than the broader collectives these problems affect. Some theorists argue that individualizing collective problems inhibits audiences from recognizing upstream causes and solutions. This study tested how narrative individualization (whether a story focuses on an individual case or a larger collective) might produce trade-offs when mobilizing support for community-level policies to address childhood obesity. We also investigated whether narratives using language congruent with political partisans' morals (equity or loyalty) might minimize polarized responses to such narratives. A large, Web-based experiment with a national sample of U.S. adults demonstrated that both individual and collective narratives increased policy support relative to a no-message control group. Individual narratives promoted policy support via narrative engagement, tender emotions, and external thoughts about the issue. Against expectations, morally congruent narratives did not outperform morally incongruent ones. © 2020 (Chris Skurka, Jeff Niederdeppe, and Liana Winett). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). All Rights Reserved. DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 VL - 14 SP - 4160 EP - 4179 SN - 1932-8036 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099452687&partnerID=40&md5=ccaa7d4eb85b0af97ab8df9493f66986 AN - WOS:000616658300109 DB - Scopus KW - moral framing KW - narrative persuasion KW - policy support KW - social determinants of health ER - TY - JOUR TI - The great sacrifice: Modi, demonetization, and populist style AU - Salmi, J. T2 - Schweizerisches Archiv fur Volkskunde AB - This article examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's affective rhetoric in the context of the 2016 monetary policy known as demonetization. The radical policy entailed the nullification of 86% of the currency in circulation overnight in an effort to deal with corruption, black money and counterfeit cash. Demonetization was announced by Modi in an unscheduled live television broadcast on 8 November, 2016. This article analyzes the Hindi version of the televised demonetization speech, seeking to describe and understand Modi's populist style and to trace reasons for his popularity. It focuses on two themes, in particular: the use of the common people motif and the mobilization of militaristic, hygienic, and religious metaphors. The article argues that embodied emotions and visceral reactions triggered by means of unequivocal metaphorical language and repetition play a central part in Modi's populist appeal. © 2020 Schweizerische Gesellschaft fuer Volkskunde (Societe Suisse des Traditions Populaires). All rights reserved. DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 VL - 116 IS - 1 SP - 37 EP - 50 SN - 0036-794X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096096260&partnerID=40&md5=836ba02783d1ebf522c379cfdc147bbb AN - WOS:000567976500004 DB - Scopus KW - Emotions KW - Framing KW - Populism KW - Conceptual metaphor KW - Demonetization KW - Modi ER - TY - JOUR TI - Images, emotions, and international politics: The death of Alan Kurdi AU - Adler-Nissen, R. AU - Andersen, K.E. AU - Hansen, L. T2 - Review of International Studies AB - How are images, emotions, and international politics connected? This article develops a theoretical framework contributing to visuality and emotions research in International Relations. Correcting the understanding that images cause particular emotional responses, this article claims that emotionally laden responses to images should be seen as performed in foreign policy discourses. We theorise images as objects of interpretation and contestation, and emotions as socially constituted rather than as individual 'inner states'. Emotional bundling-the coupling of different emotions in discourse-helps constitute political subjectivities that both politicise and depoliticise. Through emotional bundling political leaders express their experiences of feelings shared by all humans, and simultaneously articulate themselves in authoritative and gendered subject positions such as 'the father'. We illustrate the value of our framework by analysing the photographs of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian-Kurdish boy who drowned in September 2015. 'Kurdi' became an instant global icon of the Syrian refugee crisis. World leaders expressed their personal grief and determination to act, but within a year, policies adopted with direct reference to Kurdi's tragic death changed from an open-door approach to attempts to stop refugees from arriving. A discursive-performative approach opens up new avenues for research on visuality, emotionality, and world politics. © British International Studies Association 2019. DA - 2020/01/01/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1017/S0260210519000317 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 46 IS - 1 SP - 75 EP - 95 J2 - Review of International Studies LA - English SN - 0260-2105 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074302227&doi=10.1017%2fS0260210519000317&partnerID=40&md5=1bdaa8e3f6870165f2554100ebd584e7 AN - WOS:000503059400006 DB - International Political Science Abstracts KW - Migration KW - International relations KW - Emotions KW - Social media KW - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior KW - Non-labor Discrimination KW - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants KW - Discourse KW - Formal and Informal Sectors KW - Institutional Arrangements KW - Shadow Economy KW - Alan Kurdi KW - Images KW - Alan kurdi KW - Performativity KW - Visuality ER - TY - JOUR TI - Right-wing populist affective governing: a frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration. AU - Thiele, D. AU - Sauer, B. AU - Penz, O. T2 - Patterns of Prejudice AB - In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria by focusing on parliamentary debates between 2015 and 2019 concerned with migration, asylum policies and integration measures. Their theoretical approach builds first on Cas Mudde’s conception of right-wing populism—which proceeds from the premise of corrupt ‘elites’ and threatening Others—and then combines it with theories on the politics of emotion and affects. By employing a critical affective frame analysis, the study examines how right-wing populist arguments by political actors are always intertwined with affects, like anger, fear and hope, in order to mobilize followers and voters. They regard these connections as governing strategy aiming at right-wing exclusion, a mode of governing through affects, which tends to change the affective atmosphere in Austria, that is, what is conceivable, speakable and feelable with regard to migration and refugees. As it turns out, not only the notorious Freedom Party (FPÖ) (with a longstanding far-right tradition) but also the refurbished People’s Party (ÖVP) under their new leader Sebastian Kurz, draw on discourses that are exclusionary as well as affective, encouraging the Austrian population rather to fear migrants and to feel anger, in order to mobilize them against threatening ‘migration waves’ and ‘illegal immigration’. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2021/10/20/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1080/0031322X.2021.2014089 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 55 IS - 5 SP - 457 EP - 477 J2 - Patterns of Prejudice LA - eng SN - 0031-322X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130601452&doi=10.1080%2f0031322X.2021.2014089&partnerID=40&md5=9477e2a5557e312ab674424b7eeb4680 AN - WOS:000796898700001 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - migration KW - Austria KW - populism KW - Emotions KW - RIGHT-wing populism KW - Affect (Psychology) KW - Anger KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - FRAMES (Social sciences) KW - EMOTIONS KW - AFFECT (Psychology) KW - Right-wing populism KW - Undocumented immigrants KW - ANGER KW - AUSTRIA KW - UNDOCUMENTED immigrants KW - affective governing KW - anti-elitism KW - frame analysis KW - nativism KW - Othering KW - right-wing ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis. AU - Sanchez Salgado, R.M. T2 - Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research AB - The European Union's decision-making process has mostly been pictured as a technocratic and consensual process with little or no place for the logics of passion. The reform of the Dublin System in the wake of the refugee crisis (2015–16) has been analyzed from different angles but not from a political psychology perspective in which emotions are fully taken into account. Crises are often seen as a window of opportunity because key players engage in a strategic process of sense-making. This article explores the role of emotions in this process: to what extent do emotions–seen via crisis-framing processes–contribute to the understanding of the reform of the Dublin System? To this purpose, I show first how emotions are related to crisis-framing efforts. Second, I discuss how the study of emotions contributes to the understanding of decision-making processes. I carry out a critical-frame analysis illustrated by a systematic qualitative content analysis of primary documentation. Data include European Parliament debates on the topic of the refugee crisis (covering also the points of view of the Commission and the Council), and policy documents and speeches by the main actors in the decision-making process, including relevant member states and non-governmental organizations. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2022/03/01/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1080/13511610.2021.1968355 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 35 IS - 1 SP - 14 EP - 38 J2 - Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences LA - eng SN - 1351-1610 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114643494&doi=10.1080%2f13511610.2021.1968355&partnerID=40&md5=c2d8825872899f19cf1f619d260810f4 AN - WOS:000693956700001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - European Union KW - Refugees KW - framing KW - decision making KW - Political psychology KW - Decision making KW - psychology KW - refugee KW - refugee crisis KW - Emotions KW - emotions KW - Ireland KW - Reforms KW - Dublin (Ireland) KW - European Parliament KW - Nongovernmental organizations KW - dehumanization KW - Dublin [(CTY) Leinster] KW - economic reform KW - Leinster KW - parliament KW - political economy ER - TY - JOUR TI - Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information? AU - Sasaki, S. AU - Saito, T. AU - Ohtake, F. T2 - Social Science and Medicine AB - Vaccination promotion is a crucial strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic; however, individual autonomy should also be respected. This study aimed to discover other-regarding information nudges that can reinforce people's intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine without impeding their autonomous decision-making. In March 2021, we conducted an online experiment with 1595 people living throughout Japan, and randomly assigned them either of one control group and three treatment groups that received messages differently describing peer information: control, comparison, influence-gain, and influence-loss. We compared each message's effects on vaccination intention, autonomous decision-making, and emotional response. We found that the influence-gain nudge was effective in increasing the number of older adults who newly decided to receive the vaccine. The comparison and influence-loss nudges further reinforced the intention of older adults who had already planned to receive it. However, the influence-loss nudge, which conveys similar information to the influence-gain nudge but with loss-framing, increased viewers' negative emotion. These messages had no promoting effect for young adults with lower vaccination intentions at baseline. Based on the findings, we propose governments should use different messages depending on their purposes and targets, such as comparison instead of influence-loss, to encourage voluntary vaccination behavior. © 2021 The Authors DA - 2022/01// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114561 VL - 292 SN - 0277-9536 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119410530&doi=10.1016%2fj.socscimed.2021.114561&partnerID=40&md5=4f6f42d743b2d59ee2b951bb6bca733b AN - WOS:000724208400011 DB - Scopus KW - public policy KW - public health KW - behavior KW - decision making KW - Humans KW - Article KW - human KW - comparative study KW - adult KW - aged KW - Aged KW - Young Adult KW - COVID-19 KW - pandemic KW - Pandemics KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - Autonomy KW - Intention KW - Japan KW - coronavirus disease 2019 KW - vaccination KW - COVID-19 Vaccines KW - emotion KW - young adult KW - autonomy KW - Vaccination KW - vaccine KW - medical information KW - Behavioral public policy KW - experimental study KW - framing bias KW - Framing effect KW - Herd immunity KW - immunity KW - Nudge KW - Survey experiment KW - Vaccine KW - voluntary approach ER - TY - JOUR TI - Affective ideology and education policy: implications for critical policy research and practice. AU - Zembylas, M. T2 - Journal of Education Policy AB - This paper argues that analyzing education policies through the lens of affect theory provides possibilities for understanding how particular concepts are associated with certain affective ideologies. To illustrate this, the paper analyzes the case of a recent publication by the Council of Europe titled Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. The analysis shows how various concepts related to ‘democratic competences’ are invested with affective meanings, cultural connotations and political rhetoric. The paper argues that democratic competences are effectively conflated with emotional competences, opening up an analysis of democratic education as a form of individual and psychological therapy. The conclusion addresses the implications of this argument for education policy research and practice. In particular, it highlights the importance of paying attention not only to the ways that affect shapes the production of policy text, but also how a policy seeks to invoke certain affective dispositions at the point of enactment. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2022/07/01/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1080/02680939.2020.1861339 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 37 IS - 4 SP - 511 EP - 526 J2 - Journal of Education Policy LA - English SN - 0268-0939 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097377772&doi=10.1080%2f02680939.2020.1861339&partnerID=40&md5=ccf93b511c0f5ec489967456717541ab AN - WOS:000597017200001 DB - Education Source KW - Europe KW - Democracy KW - Foreign Countries KW - Ideology KW - Educational Policy KW - Administration of Education Programs KW - Competence KW - Education policy KW - Other local, municipal and regional public administration KW - Other provincial and territorial public administration KW - Language Usage KW - Therapy KW - Cultural identity KW - Council of Europe KW - Publications KW - Affective Behavior KW - education policy KW - affect theory KW - Affective ideology KW - council of Europe KW - critical policy research KW - reference framework of competences for democratic culture ER - TY - JOUR TI - A content analysis of twitter backlash to Georgia's abortion ban AU - Doan, A.E. AU - Bogen, K.W. AU - Higgins, E. AU - Orchowski, L.M. T2 - Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare AB - Objective: Georgia's House Bill 481: The Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act (LIFE Act), which prohibits abortion after cardiac activity is detected, was signed into law on May 7, 2019. The bill's proponents framed the ban to protect the “unborn.” However, less is known about the framing used by abortion rights supporters to oppose the bill in the context of social media. The aim of this study is to systematically examine the content of Twitter to investigate how users organically engaged in activism in response to the passage of HB 481. We contend that understanding this opposition is critical for activists, healthcare providers, and policymakers interested in mobilizing public support for maintaining legal access to abortion care. Methods: A coding team of 6 researchers conducted a combined a priori and iterative thematic content analysis of 583 #HB481 tweets to systematically examine how social media users framed their responses to HB 481. Tweets were coded for full group consensus. Results: Opposition to HB 481 was framed around three major themes: mobilizing political action, emphasizing a collective gender identity, and general rejection of the bill. Fourteen subthemes are contained in these major themes, which reflect the nuanced and multifaceted ways abortion rights supporters presented their opposition to the bill. Conclusion: Twitter users invoked emotional reactions and drew on their experiences to promote a collective identity that called attention to systemic gender oppression and urged widespread mobilization to oppose HB 481. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. DA - 2022/03// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1016/j.srhc.2021.100689 VL - 31 SN - 1877-5756 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121307049&doi=10.1016%2fj.srhc.2021.100689&partnerID=40&md5=7bef37733180cc59fae38df5e33f750b AN - WOS:000800444300004 DB - Scopus KW - public policy KW - Humans KW - politics KW - Policy KW - Male KW - Female KW - Article KW - female KW - human KW - male KW - Politics KW - law KW - social media KW - Social Media KW - content analysis KW - pregnancy KW - Gender Identity KW - Pregnancy KW - abortion KW - Abortion KW - Gender KW - Abortion, Induced KW - induced abortion KW - health care personnel KW - thematic analysis KW - scientist KW - activism KW - Abortion Ban KW - gender identity KW - Georgia KW - Georgia (U.S.) ER - TY - JOUR TI - Is Being Funny a Useful Policy? How Local Governments’ Humorous Crisis Response Strategies and Crisis Responsibilities Influence Trust, Emotions, and Behavioral Intentions AU - Hämpke, J. AU - Röseler, S. AU - Thielsch, M.T. T2 - International Journal of Disaster Risk Science AB - This study is the first to investigate how a local government’s humorously framed response strategy on social media to a low-severity crisis influences people’s trust in the local government and their crisis-related behavioral intentions, specifically when considering the government’s responsibility for the crisis. Based on the situational crisis communication theory, we examined the mediating role of experienced positive or negative affect on people’s responses to a local government’s crisis communication strategy. Further, we exploratorily examined the predictive power and moderating role of demographics, sense of humor, disposition to trust, and the respective crisis scenarios. A total of 517 people participated in an online experiment in which they were confronted with three randomly presented fictive crisis scenarios where the local government’s crisis responsibility (high versus low) and the framing of their crisis response strategy (in form of humorous versus rational Twitter posts) were systematically varied between subjects. First, the results mostly corroborate earlier findings about the degree of crisis responsibility (that is, when a government’s crisis responsibility is high, people have less trust and behavioral intentions) and about the mediating role of experienced affect. Second, we found that humorously framed strategies negatively influence trust and positive affect (but not behavioral intentions). In contrast to earlier findings, the crisis responsibility × framing interaction was not significant. Altogether, the results advise against using humor in crisis communications on social media, even in low-severity crisis. Exploratory analyses indicate that further investigations should focus on specific crisis characteristics and potential moderators. © 2022, The Author(s). DA - 2022/10// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1007/s13753-022-00436-z VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 676 EP - 690 SN - 2095-0055 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137784258&doi=10.1007%2fs13753-022-00436-z&partnerID=40&md5=fc12949584bb7442cc5fba7587745485 AN - WOS:000852100100001 DB - Scopus KW - local government KW - Social media KW - social media KW - policy approach KW - Affect KW - Crisis communication KW - Humor KW - disaster management KW - behavioral response KW - crisis management KW - Crisis responsibility KW - Situational crisis communication theory ER - TY - JOUR TI - “Outrageous” Diplomacy: Investigating the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter AU - Massa, A. AU - Anzera, G. T2 - Global Society AB - Diplomacy is traditionally associated with politeness and civility. As a fundamental element of international relations, diplomacy is rooted in professional skills and codified practices. By moving diplomacy to online platforms, diplomatic statements have been accelerated, sometimes resulting in aggressiveness. The purpose of this paper is to identify outrage in diplomatic communication. Outrage can be defined as uncivil expressions evoking emotion in the audience. This concept is examined based on the tweets produced by the Russian Foreign Ministry account between 1 December 2021, and 24 April 2022 (total: 2485 tweets). Based on the framework proposed by Berry, Jeffrey M., and Sara Sobieraj (2014. The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and The New Incivility. Oxford: Oxford University Press), qualitative analysis identifies 370 outrageous tweets. Frame analysis shows how outrage acts as a narrative tool for activating (self-)representational devices. Moreover, outrage influences the diplomatic tone, international actors’ characterisation, and international institutions’ delegitimization. © 2024 University of Kent. DA - 2024/// PY - 2024 DO - 10.1080/13600826.2024.2350999 VL - 38 IS - 4 SP - 444 EP - 466 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85192816581&doi=10.1080%2f13600826.2024.2350999&partnerID=40&md5=8f87a6375c8ce46312ffc0d3b68fb2f2 DB - Scopus KW - framing KW - qualitative analysis KW - Diplomacy KW - foreign policy KW - conflict KW - Russia KW - social media KW - Russian Federation KW - Twitter KW - diplomatic relations KW - conflict management KW - outrage ER - TY - JOUR TI - Anti-populism and the Trump trauma in US foreign policy. AU - Biegon, R. AU - Hamdaoui, S. T2 - International Affairs AB - In challenging normal patterns of foreign policy legitimation and undermining the internationalist consensus in favour of liberal hegemony, Donald Trump's populism constituted a political trauma for the foreign policy establishment (FPE) of the United States. How did the FPE respond? Based on a discursive approach and using the methodology of qualitative frame analysis, we examine the anti-populist response to the Trump trauma on the part of the FPE. The findings show how the FPE framed Trumpian populism as a political anomaly through interlocking frames of authoritarianism, irresponsibility and immaturity. This could only be rectified through a process of foreign policy normalization, carried through the first two years of the Joe Biden administration, which aimed to stabilize US leadership and restore the consensus that existed prior to the populist disruption. Highlighting the emotional dimensions of anti-populism, the article contends that to fully understand the effects of global populism, we must examine elite responses to populist 'ruptures' of the kind Trump represented. By extending the concept of anti-populism to debates on foreign policy, the article addresses existing gaps in the literatures on anti-populism and the effects of populist foreign policy. © 2024 The Author(s). DA - 2024/09/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1093/ia/iiae174 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 100 IS - 5 SP - 1857 EP - 1875 J2 - International Affairs LA - eng SN - 0020-5850 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85203494906&doi=10.1093%2fia%2fiiae174&partnerID=40&md5=d10ca3a9f7601364e28cd10bbcc33392 AN - WOS:001315125500007 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - International relations KW - populism KW - Foreign affairs KW - International Affairs KW - Presidential administrations KW - Authoritarianism KW - trauma KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Hegemony KW - Anti-populism KW - Biden KW - Trump KW - US foreign policy ER - TY - JOUR TI - Equivalency framing of problems and policy solutions. AU - Sahn, A. AU - Stoker, L. AU - Lerman, A.E. T2 - Political Behavior AB - While there is a large political science literature on framing effects, almost none of it has focused on equivalency framing of actual problems and potential solutions. We investigate whether the public expresses more concern about societal problems when logically equivalent information concerning their prevalence is framed in negative rather than in positive terms, and whether support for ameliorative policies changes when policies are framed as reducing the incidence of bad outcomes as opposed to increasing the incidence of good ones. From experiments covering a diverse set of issues, we find that equivalency frames have a consistent effect on the public’s evaluation of social problems: negative frames provoke substantially more negative emotional reactions to problems and lead to judgments that the problems are more serious and deserving of government attention. At the same time, we find no differences in support for gain-framed versus loss-framed policies designed to ameliorate these problems. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025. DA - 2025/03/21/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1007/s11109-025-10023-9 DP - EBSCOhost J2 - Political Behavior LA - eng SN - 0190-9320 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105000475357&doi=10.1007%2fs11109-025-10023-9&partnerID=40&md5=e4c46c3141cc93acaa4f54b38cfcb308 AN - WOS:001449731600001 DB - APA PsycInfo KW - Public policy KW - Policy Making KW - Public opinion KW - Emotions KW - Social Issues KW - Framing KW - Framing Effects KW - Political Attitudes ER - TY - JOUR TI - How to talk about crises? Leaders' narrative strategies during the COVID‐19 vaccination campaign in Italy and France. AU - Mastroianni, L. AU - Profeti, S. T2 - Policy Studies Journal AB - Defined by threat, urgency, and uncertainty, crises produce opportunities for government leaders to exploit and create meaning around their policy decisions in such unstable circumstances. In narrating their preferred policy solutions, one of the tools governments can use is relying on evidence-based information. However, some studies have also stressed the importance of recovering emotional inputs when directing the public toward policy compliance. Based upon this premise, we first propose an original typology intersecting evidence/emotions with loss/gain-framed narrative dimensions, enriching the analytical tools available to the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), especially when it is applied to studying and interpreting the formulation of policy narratives in times of crisis. We then propose a set of expectations that are empirically tested against the narrative strategies concerning the vaccination campaign during the COVID-19 crisis in two European countries, Italy and France. By taking into account the official public statements of the executive leaders and health ministers, they have been analyzed through the Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA) software, incorporating our typology into the NPF coding scheme. The analysis shows that tracing leaders' policy narratives back to the evidence/emotion and gain/loss dimensions allows more nuanced differences to emerge that are not immediately observable by resorting to the NPF standard categories. Indeed, although the stories of vaccination against COVID-19 told in the two countries are broadly similar in terms of the characters and the moral of the story, and emotion-based narrative strategies prevail in both contexts, we observe a greater overall use of admonitions and scaring tactics in France than in Italy. Moreover, when looking at the evolution of strategies over time, the stability of gain-framed narratives in the Italian case seems less consistent with the progressively more intrusive nature of the policy solutions adopted by the government. 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Las crisis, definidas por la amenaza, la urgencia y la incertidumbre, generan oportunidades para que los l & iacute;deres gubernamentales exploten y creen significado en torno a sus decisiones pol & iacute;ticas en circunstancias tan inestables. Al narrar sus soluciones pol & iacute;ticas preferidas, una de las herramientas que pueden utilizar los gobiernos es confiar en informaci & oacute;n basada en evidencia. Sin embargo, algunos estudios tambi & eacute;n han destacado la importancia de recuperar los est & iacute;mulos emocionales a la hora de orientar al p & uacute;blico hacia el cumplimiento de las pol & iacute;ticas. Con base en esta premisa, primero proponemos una tipolog & iacute;a original que cruza la evidencia/emociones con dimensiones narrativas enmarcadas en p & eacute;rdidas/ganancias, enriqueciendo las herramientas anal & iacute;ticas disponibles para el Marco Narrativo de Pol & iacute;ticas (NPF), especialmente cuando se aplica al estudio e interpretaci & oacute;n de la formulaci & oacute;n de narrativas pol & iacute;ticas en tiempos de crisis. Luego proponemos un conjunto de expectativas que se prueban emp & iacute;ricamente frente a las estrategias narrativas relativas a la campa & ntilde;a de vacunaci & oacute;n durante la crisis de COVID-19 en dos pa & iacute;ses europeos, Italia y Francia. Teniendo en cuenta las declaraciones p & uacute;blicas oficiales de los l & iacute;deres ejecutivos y los ministros de salud, se han analizado a trav & eacute;s del software Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA), incorporando nuestra tipolog & iacute;a al esquema de codificaci & oacute;n del NPF. El an & aacute;lisis muestra que rastrear las narrativas pol & iacute;ticas de los l & iacute;deres hasta las dimensiones evidencia/emoci & oacute;n y ganancia/p & eacute;rdida permite que surjan diferencias m & aacute;s matizadas que no son inmediatamente observables al recurrir a las categor & iacute;as est & aacute;ndar del NPF. De hecho, aunque las historias de vacunaci & oacute;n contra la COVID-19 contadas en los dos pa & iacute;ses son en general similares en t & eacute;rminos de los personajes y la moraleja de la historia, y las estrategias narrativas basadas en la emoci & oacute;n prevalecen en ambos contextos, observamos un mayor uso generalizado de advertencias y t & aacute;cticas de miedo en Francia que en Italia. Adem & aacute;s, al observar la evoluci & oacute;n de las estrategias a lo largo del tiempo, la estabilidad de las narrativas enmarcadas en las ganancias en el caso italiano parece menos consistente con la naturaleza progresivamente m & aacute;s intrusiva de las soluciones pol & iacute;ticas adoptadas por el gobierno. DA - 2025/01/10/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1111/psj.12585 DP - EBSCOhost SP - 1 J2 - Policy Studies Journal LA - eng SN - 0190-292X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85214797280&doi=10.1111%2fpsj.12585&partnerID=40&md5=b938839c18be4cf94d937e5bf2c94370 AN - WOS:001392966700001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Government policy KW - COVID-19 KW - Narration KW - Other General Government Support KW - policy narratives KW - Government accounting KW - Health ministers KW - Public Finance Activities KW - Public officers KW - crisis leadership ER - TY - JOUR TI - When hostility is a norm in International Relations: Emotional deviants and internal enemies in populist media discourse AU - Kosen, M.G. AU - Akkaraca Kose, M. T2 - Cooperation and Conflict AB - This study investigates the normative dimension of emotions within domestic politics for international issues. Focusing on Turkish–Greek relations during a period of heightened tension (June–November 2022), we examine how pro-government media constructs hostility towards Greece as a central emotion norm linked to national identity. Employing corpus-assisted discourse analysis within the framework of the subjective group dynamics model, we analyse how opposition figures are portrayed as deviants who do not embody this emotion norm and marginalized as external to the nation. Our findings highlight the powerful role of emotions in both unifying and dividing domestic politics on foreign policy issues and regarding international actors. Furthermore, the study contributes to understanding of the media’s role in populist polarization and political contestation surrounding the emotional dimensions of national identity. © The Author(s) 2025. DA - 2025/02/17/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1177/00108367251315422 SN - 0010-8367 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105000018668&doi=10.1177%2f00108367251315422&partnerID=40&md5=8eed35ed56e31bf508d824a9363ea1b1 AN - WOS:001423723800001 DB - Scopus KW - hostility KW - International Relations KW - domestic politics KW - emotion norms KW - emotional polarization KW - media and populism KW - Turkey–Greece relations ER - TY - JOUR TI - Cognitive Framing in Climate Change Debates: A Discourse Analysis of Media and Policy Texts. AU - Al-Dawoody Abdulaal, M.A. AU - Sharaf Eldin, A.A.T. AU - Eleleidy, M.A. AU - Ibrahim, A.A.A. T2 - Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) AB - How the public perceives climate change and the actions taken to address it are significantly influenced by how the issue is framed in discourse. This study employs Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA) to examine the mental frameworks present in media and policy texts related to climate change. By analyzing a broad collection of international media articles and policy papers, the research identifies recurring themes such as “climate crisis”, “economic opportunity”, and “natural disaster”. These thematic frames shape public understanding, often amplifying urgency and emotional response. The study explores how such heightened rhetoric can be leveraged to foster unity rather than division. Additionally, it investigates the tension between the discourse of urgency and the presentation of viable solutions, emphasizing the need for a balanced approach. Ultimately, this research contributes to the development of effective communication strategies that support long-term, sustainable policy objectives, ensuring that climate discourse encourages meaningful action rather than polarization. © 2025 ACADEMY PUBLICATION. DA - 2025/06/01/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.17507/tpls.1506.33 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 15 IS - 6 SP - 2059 EP - 2068 J2 - Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) LA - English SN - 17992591 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105007835659&doi=10.17507%2ftpls.1506.33&partnerID=40&md5=e688d2b0bc11c955f50b53c7d4ebe9a0 AN - 185673547 DB - Education Source KW - Climate change KW - Critical discourse analysis KW - Discourse analysis KW - Climate change mitigation KW - climate change discourse KW - cognitive framing KW - critical discourse analysis KW - Mass media policy KW - media texts KW - policy communication ER - TY - JOUR TI - Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates. AU - Fullerton, A.H. AU - Durnová, A. AU - Weible, C.M. T2 - Review of Policy Research AB - Two perceptions can be found in any public debate: first, perceptions of the self and how a person describes their own beliefs and emotions; and second, perceptions of the other and how a person ascribes beliefs and emotions to their allies and opponents. These perceptions of allies and opponents have been topics of study in research on the Devil and Angel Shift, as found in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. The goal of this article is to build on and contribute theoretically and empirically to the study of the Devil and Angel Shift using textual data. This article compares coalition dynamics through the use of “other” emotion and belief statements compared with the traditional “self” narrated emotion and belief statements. This article analyzes the positive and negative emotions and associated beliefs of policy actors engaged in a debate on banning gender affirming care in Arkansas, USA. It finds that advocacy coalitions tend to ascribe more negative emotions or devilize their opponents but tend to use negative and positive emotions at about the same frequency toward their allies. This article offers a broader conceptualization of how to study the Devil and Angel shift, introduces new strategies of Unifying and Acknowledging both allies and opponents, and presents a new avenue of research for scholars interested in applications focusing on coalition dynamics. © 2025 Policy Studies Organization. DA - 2025/03/11/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1111/ropr.70009 DP - EBSCOhost SP - 1 J2 - Review of Policy Research LA - eng SN - 1541-132X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-86000579767&doi=10.1111%2fropr.70009&partnerID=40&md5=0ee27a1255b2a98464a6ab81ddd73b2c AN - WOS:001441263800001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Self-perception KW - emotions KW - Advocacy coalition framework KW - Angels KW - Devil KW - Gender affirming care KW - advocacy coalition framework KW - angel shift KW - devil shift KW - policy process theories ER - TY - JOUR TI - Intervention policies for promoting green consumption behavior: An interdisciplinary systematic review and future directions. AU - Aizhong, H. AU - Ayong, L. T2 - Journal of Environmental Management AB - Intervention policies play a crucial role in promoting the green transformation of consumption patterns and reducing consumer-side carbon emissions. This topic has been extensively explored by interdisciplinary scholars. However, these studies have not substantially improved our understanding of how intervention policies effectively encourage consumers to engage in green consumption. Using the antecedent-decision-outcome (ADO) framework, this study systematically reviewed 290 interdisciplinary papers and developed a causal integration framework of "policy antecedents–decision mechanisms–behavioral outcomes" to foster green consumption. The findings indicate: (1) policy instruments affecting green consumption include four increasingly intrusive types—information-based, nudging, market-based, and regulatory. (2) Changes in consumers' cognition, emotions, and economic costs mediate the impact of intervention policies on green consumption behavior. (3) Intervention practices, external environments, and consumer differences moderate the effectiveness of policies in promoting green consumption. (4) Green consumption behaviors, influenced by policies and decision mechanisms, vary in terms of directness, duration, group dynamics, and across the consumption chain. Additionally, alignment with the digital age, this study proposes future research directions for four perspectives: innovative instruments, underlying mechanisms, novel effects and advanced technologies. • An ADO framework was developed to analyze the effectiveness of intervention policies in promoting green consumption. • Information-based, nudging, market-based, and regulatory instruments are key policies for encouraging green consumption. • Green policies work through cognitive, emotional, and economic mechanisms to influence consumption behaviors effectively. • Policy effects vary in direction, duration, group dynamics, and their impact across the consumption chain. • Recommendations are provided for future research on green consumption intervention policies. DA - 2025/01/01/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123917 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 373 SP - N.PAG EP - N.PAG J2 - Journal of Environmental Management LA - eng SN - 0301-4797 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85213214470&doi=10.1016%2fj.jenvman.2024.123917&partnerID=40&md5=6977f3e8d96a82e449960d0e99c8c6be AN - WOS:001403081400001 DB - CAB Abstracts​​​​​​​ with Full Text KW - Systematic Review KW - literature review KW - Humans KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - female KW - human KW - male KW - systematic review KW - adult KW - consumer KW - emotions KW - systematic reviews KW - evidence based practice KW - environmental policy KW - costs KW - Environmental policy KW - Sustainable consumption KW - Green behavior KW - Group dynamics KW - cognition KW - innovations KW - emotion KW - review KW - Systematic review KW - consumption behavior KW - research work KW - future prospect KW - interdisciplinary approach KW - carbon emission KW - duration KW - role playing KW - Green development KW - Carbon emissions KW - Consumption patterns KW - Consumption reducing KW - Decision mechanism KW - Green consumption KW - Green consumption behavior KW - Green economy KW - group dynamics KW - Interdisciplinary KW - Intervention policy KW - Research direction ER - TY - JOUR TI - An emotional perspective on the Multiple Streams Framework AU - Maor, M. T2 - Policy Studies Journal AB - Emotions are central to human behavior and, consequently, play a significant role in policymaking. While the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) incorporates the notion of “public mood” into the political stream, this concept primarily focuses on a fleeting, less intense, and diffuse emotional state that is not necessarily linked to a specific triggering event or policy-related object. To address this limitation, the current article draws on robust findings from political psychology, viewing and interpreting the MSF through an emotional lens. It investigates the intersections between emotions, on the one hand, and the assumptions and structural elements of the MSF, on the other, by sharpening existing concepts—such as the emotional agenda (policy) window, emotional decision window, and emotional policy entrepreneurs—to examine emotionality in policy dynamics. It concludes by discussing how an emotional perspective on the MSF can help scholars generate nuanced hypotheses, overcome the MSF's metaphorical language, and gauge when policy may be in search of a rationale. © 2024 The Author(s). Policy Studies Journal published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Policy Studies Organization. DA - 2024/11/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1111/psj.12568 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 52 IS - 4 SP - 925 EP - 940 J2 - Policy Studies Journal LA - eng SN - 0190-292X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205938969&doi=10.1111%2fpsj.12568&partnerID=40&md5=be5f6c5626a43ab95091e9073f01052f AN - WOS:001330603000001 DB - EconLit KW - Entrepreneurship KW - psychology KW - policy making KW - emotions KW - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making KW - human behavior KW - emotional agenda window KW - emotional decision window KW - emotional policy entrepreneurs KW - multiple stream framework ER - TY - JOUR TI - Fear and empathy in international relations: Diplomacy, cyber engagement and Australian foreign policy AU - Di Martino, L. T2 - Place Branding and Public Diplomacy AB - Emotions in international relations, as in human relations, are invisible but leave traces in the policy articulation. Such traces can reveal how emotional interpretations of the environment in which national states operate shape and frame certain policy and strategic choices. Drawing on the concept of the “institutionalisation of empathy and fear” developed by Crawford (Int Theory 6(3):535–557, 2014), I first operationalise and then apply this concept to the Australian foreign policy. This framework is applied to the analysis of the foreign policy documents and strategies published by the Australian government in the last decade. In particular, I focus on Australia’s foreign policy articulation and interpretation of the internet and digital technologies. New, pressing problems are emerging in the digital environment due to a range of cybersecurity threats, including an increase in the frequency of automated accounts and the dissemination of fake news and digital propaganda. From perceiving the internet as a communication platform that allows for listening to and dialogue with foreign publics, Australian foreign policy is increasingly framing the internet as strategic infrastructure that requires defending and guarding. The attention is, thus, moving towards short-term ‘defensive’ goals—as a result of a higher perceived fear of the latest evolution in the geopolitical context. The shift in Australian foreign policy indicates a form of institutionalisation of fear in response to the challenges emerging from the digital environment. I conclude by arguing that a more belligerent international environment highlights the tension between national interest—which evolves and changes due to political shifts and contextual elements—and the understanding of public diplomacy engagement as mutual understanding and mutual influence. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021. DA - 2024/03// PY - 2024 DO - 10.1057/s41254-021-00211-9 VL - 20 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 11 SN - 1751-8040 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105219828&doi=10.1057%2fs41254-021-00211-9&partnerID=40&md5=1d053a40914dec5805c930b5405e6341 AN - WOS:000642063800001 DB - Scopus KW - Australia KW - Digital diplomacy KW - Engagement KW - Cyber diplomacy KW - Public diplomacy ER - TY - JOUR TI - Selling hope versus hate: the impact of partisan social media messaging on social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. AU - Govind, R. AU - Garg, N. AU - Carter, L. T2 - European Journal of Marketing AB - Purpose: This study aims to examine the role of hope and hate in political leaders’ messages in influencing liberals versus conservatives’ social-distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the increasing political partisanship across the world today, using the appropriate message framing has important implications for social and public policy. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use two Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods – a pretrained package (HateSonar) and a classifier built to implement our supervised neural network-based model architecture using RoBERTa – to analyze 61,466 tweets by each US state’s governor and two senators with the goal of examining the association between message factors invoking hate and hope and increased or decreased social distancing from March to May 2020. The authors examine individuals’ social-distancing behaviors (the amount of nonessential driving undertaken) using data from 3,047 US counties between March 13 and May 31, 2020, as reported by Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports and the New York Times repository of COVID-19 data. Findings: The results show that for conservative state leaders, the use of hate increases nonessential driving of state residents. However, when these leaders use hope in their speech, nonessential driving of state residents decreases. For liberal state leaders, the use of hate displays a directionally different result as compared to their conservative counterparts. Research limitations/implications: Amid the emergence of new analytic techniques and novel data sources, the findings demonstrate that the use of global positioning systems data and social media analysis can provide valuable and precise insights into individual behavior. They also contribute to the literature on political ideology and emotion by demonstrating the use of specific emotion appeals in targeting specific consumer segments based on their political ideology. Practical implications: The findings have significant implications for policymakers and public health officials regarding the importance of considering partisanship when developing and implementing public health policies. As partisanship continues to increase, applying the appropriate emotion appeal in messages will become increasingly crucial. The findings can help marketers and policymakers develop more effective social marketing campaigns by tailoring specific appeals given the political identity of the consumer. Originality/value: Using Neural NLP methods, this study identifies the specific factors linking social media messaging from political leaders and increased compliance with health directives in a partisan population. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited. DA - 2024/02/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1108/EJM-12-2022-0911 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 58 IS - 2 SP - 632 EP - 658 J2 - European Journal of Marketing LA - eng SN - 0309-0566 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85179961221&doi=10.1108%2fEJM-12-2022-0911&partnerID=40&md5=2b315f552e926e4d319a498dbb99dd5e AN - WOS:001129348800001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - COVID-19 KW - Social media KW - COVID-19 pandemic KW - Hate KW - Political ideology KW - Social distancing KW - Natural language processing KW - Hate speech KW - New York Times, The (Newspaper) KW - Public health officers KW - Social marketing KW - Hope KW - Neural natural language processing KW - Social media messaging ER - TY - JOUR TI - Voices of transitions: Korea's online news media and user comments on the energy transition. AU - Kim, B. AU - Yang, S. AU - Kim, H. T2 - Energy Policy AB - It is important to understand stakeholders' attitudes toward energy transition policies, or indeed toward any government proposal. Online news platforms are agoras where media and people interact, so they appear to be a rich vein for mining media and public attitudes toward energy transition. We collected online news articles and comments with the keyword "energy transition," along with such commenters' activity histories, from the largest Korean online news aggregator during the July 2021 to July 2022 shift in the government. Utilizing advanced machine learning approaches, we examined the media's evaluation of energy transition, users' emotions regarding it, and the influence of various features on commenters' emotions and elaborations in comments. We found that intense negative emotions dominated news comments about the energy transition. However, our analysis of users' historical activities found that the commenters were a raging political crowd who expressed intense negative emotions about many social and political issues. Furthermore, our application of Catboost regression analysis demonstrates how news framing can facilitate deliberation by relieving the intensity of emotions and enhancing users' deliberation. Our findings suggest being cautious about using online news platform data to gauge media and public attitudes toward energy transition. The findings also highlight the need to use comprehensive datasets and approaches to avoid misunderstanding stakeholders' attitudes toward energy policy, as expressed in online spaces. These findings can guide future studies that use news comments to understand public attitudes toward energy transition policies or other contentious proposals. • Online commenters, akin to a raging political crowd, show strong interest in various social and political issues. • The nature of online commenters necessitates careful interpretation of their views on the Korean energy transition as representative of overall public attitudes. • Media coverage frames the Korean energy transition negatively. • Neutral or positive news framing would likely encourage more deliberative discussions about energy policies on online news platforms. • Comprehensive datasets and diverse machine learning approaches unveil insights not possible through singular approaches. DA - 2024/04/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114020 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 187 SP - N.PAG EP - N.PAG J2 - Energy Policy LA - eng SN - 0301-4215 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85185461755&doi=10.1016%2fj.enpol.2024.114020&partnerID=40&md5=57ffb4765e288467971314aa331b40c6 AN - WOS:001199001800001 DB - GreenFILE KW - Political science KW - Public opinion KW - South Korea KW - Media KW - Energy policy KW - Alternative Energy Sources KW - Machine learning KW - Energy: Government Policy KW - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis KW - Entertainment KW - Neural Networks and Related Topics KW - Energy transition KW - Public emotions KW - Commenter activity KW - Commenter elaboration KW - News headline framing KW - News websites KW - Online comments KW - Online news platform ER - TY - JOUR TI - Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies: Evidence from ten countries using big data AU - Sarracino, F. AU - Greyling, T. AU - O'Connor, K.J. AU - Peroni, C. AU - Rossouw, S. T2 - Economics and Human Biology AB - We use Twitter, Google mobility, and Oxford policy data to study the relationship between trust and compliance over the period March 2020 to January 2021 in ten, mostly European, countries. Trust has been shown to be an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, the previous findings depend upon two assumptions: first, that compliance is time invariant, and second, that compliance can be measured using self reports or mobility measures alone. We relax these assumptions by calculating a new time-varying measure of compliance as the association between containment policies and people's mobility behavior. Additionally, we develop measures of trust in others and national institutions by applying emotion analysis to Twitter data. Results from various panel estimation techniques demonstrate that compliance changes over time and that increasing (decreasing) trust in others predicts increasing (decreasing) compliance. This evidence indicates that compliance changes over time, and further confirms the importance of cultivating trust in others. © 2024 DA - 2024/// PY - 2024 DO - 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101412 VL - 54 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85199297933&doi=10.1016%2fj.ehb.2024.101412&partnerID=40&md5=b26bfd7fe732328a21243a2d78afc701 DB - Scopus KW - Europe KW - Australia KW - Humans KW - New Zealand KW - Article KW - human KW - psychology KW - trust KW - conceptual framework KW - South Africa KW - adult KW - COVID-19 KW - pandemic KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - social media KW - Social Media KW - big data KW - coronavirus disease 2019 KW - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - Trust KW - Twitter KW - infection control KW - fear KW - health care policy KW - economic aspect KW - controlled study KW - major clinical study KW - compliance KW - prevention and control KW - anticipation KW - self report KW - communicable disease control KW - medical literature KW - patient compliance KW - dependent variable KW - Big Data KW - instrumental variable analysis ER - TY - JOUR TI - Catch me if you can: how episodic and thematic multimodal news frames shape policy support by stimulating visual attention and responsibility attributions AU - Geise, S. AU - Maubach, K. T2 - Frontiers in Communication AB - Using media coverage of animal welfare as an example, this study examines how the perception of multimodal news frames shapes recipients’ visual attention, attributions of responsibility, emotions, and policy support. To investigate the mechanisms of multimodal-episodic versus thematic framing, we combined eye-tracking measurements with a pre-post survey experiment in which 143 participants were randomly assigned to an episodic or a thematic multimodal framing condition. The results show that episodic multimodal frames are viewed longer than thematic frames, elicit stronger individual and political responsibility attributions, and increase political support for stricter animal-welfare laws. Understanding multimodal framing as a multistep process, a serial mediation model reveals that episodic frames affect viewing time, which leads to stronger attributions of political responsibility and, in turn, stronger policy support. Our results support the idea of a complex interplay between subsequent stages of information perception and processing within a multimodal framing process. Copyright © 2024 Geise and Maubach. DA - 2024/05/16/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1305048 VL - 9 SN - 2297-900X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85194898554&doi=10.3389%2ffcomm.2024.1305048&partnerID=40&md5=3b7ca6d7ec6ee050ccc7bfcd0b2ca26f AN - WOS:001234581100001 DB - Scopus KW - visual framing KW - experiment KW - multimodal framing KW - affective framing KW - episodic frames KW - eyetracking KW - thematic frames ER - TY - JOUR TI - Anticipatory policy rhetoric: exploring ideological fantasies of Finnish higher education AU - Tervasmäki, T. T2 - Critical Policy Studies AB - This research explores how anticipatory policymaking played out in Finnish higher education reform. The study applies a discourse theoretic framework to explore how policy narrative might prove attractive to subjects by mobilizing ideas, norms, and fantasies through affective identification. Fantasies frame and stabilize our sense-making practices, thereby providing affective belonging and (ir)rationale for our actions. As an empirical case, the analysis of the Vision Development 2030 reform elucidates how the policy documents construct fantasmatic narratives (with reference to obstacles, threats, and plenitude to come) that set the terms of debate in articulating the ‘problem’ of Finnish HE and in supplying the favorable policy solutions. Scrutinizing a range of ideological fantasies, such as articulating gloomy forecasts and reactivating cognitive and affective memories of past successes, Vision Development sought to evoke subjects’ latent emotions and desires, mobilizing them toward a reproduction of the techno-managerialist order. Applying poststructuralist discourse theory and the concept of fantasy in policy studies, the role of desire and affective rhetoric in anticipatory future-making can be critically evaluated and the implications of such policy doctrines contemplated. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2024/10/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1080/19460171.2023.2275289 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 536 EP - 555 SN - 1946-0171 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85176313607&doi=10.1080%2f19460171.2023.2275289&partnerID=40&md5=d2c8493ba289650f49b9935083cc8b30 AN - WOS:001099982100001 DB - Scopus KW - policy analysis KW - affective rhetoric KW - Anticipatory governance KW - critical fantasy studies KW - Finnish higher education KW - poststructuralist discourse theory ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Effects of Responsibility Frames and Stigmatizing Headlines in News on Support for COVID-19 Policies in Korea. AU - Lim, I.-J. AU - Shim, M. AU - Lee, C.-J. AU - Jeong, S.-H. AU - Lee, H. T2 - Mass Communication and Society AB - This study examined the mechanisms through which responsibility frames and stigmatizing headlines influence support for governmental policies to address the pandemic. Based on a factorial design experiment, we examined the effects of 2 responsibility frames (individual vs. societal responsibility) and 4 headline types (non-stigmatized vs. name-stigmatized vs. characteristic-stigmatized vs. both-stigmatized). The results showed that the individual responsibility frame increased individual attribution of responsibility for the cause and spread of COVID-19 whereas reducing societal attribution of responsibility, compared to the societal responsibility frame. The headline that detailed both the stigmatized characteristic and name increased individual attribution of responsibility compared to the non-stigmatized headline. Furthermore, the effects of frames and headline types on policy support were sequentially mediated by attribution of responsibility and emotions. Individual attribution of responsibility led to anger whereas societal attribution of responsibility led to sympathy. Subsequently, anger increased support for punitive policies while sympathy increased support for assistive policies. This study contributes to the literature on news framing of pandemics by integrating cognitive and emotional mechanisms in forming policy attitudes. © 2023 Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. DA - 2024/07/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1080/15205436.2023.2202657 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 27 IS - 4 SP - 710 EP - 738 J2 - Mass Communication & Society LA - eng SN - 1520-5436 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85161439428&doi=10.1080%2f15205436.2023.2202657&partnerID=40&md5=9905e18697f8297f13d0547b5e52078f AN - WOS:000997899600001 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - COVID-19 KW - COVID-19 pandemic KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Factorial experiment designs KW - Headlines ER - TY - JOUR TI - Two paths of news frames affecting support for particulate matter policies in South Korea: The moderating roles of media exposure and psychological distance. AU - Lim, I.-J. AU - Kim, Y. AU - Kim, S. T2 - Risk Analysis: An International Journal AB - This study examined the paths through which the news frames of particulate matter (PM) influence support for governmental policies aiming to address PM. It also explored the mediating effects of anxiety and risk perception in the relationship between news frames and policy support, as well as the moderating effects of media exposure and psychological distance on the PM news framing effect. Based on an experimental design (N = 676), two groups of news frames were prepared for comparison: a narrative frame group and a numerical frame group. The results showed no significant differences in anxiety or risk perception between the two groups. Further, no significant mediating effects of anxiety or risk perception were found in the process through which PM news frames influence support for governmental policies. However, media exposure significantly moderated the effect of the narrative frame: With high (low) media exposure, the narrative frame positively (negatively) influenced policy support through risk perception. Moreover, when the level of psychological distance was low, the narrative frame positively influenced policy support through risk perception. This study contributes to the literature on news framing of PM by integrating cognitive and emotional mechanisms in forming policy attitudes. © 2024 Society for Risk Analysis. DA - 2024/11/13/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1111/risa.17675 DP - EBSCOhost SP - 1 J2 - Risk Analysis: An International Journal LA - eng SN - 0272-4332 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85208943808&doi=10.1111%2frisa.17675&partnerID=40&md5=72887b7ce80c1d8d7674f255e18555ee AN - WOS:001357143400001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Risk perception KW - South Korea KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Media exposure KW - Particulate matter KW - Psychological distance KW - policy support KW - Mediating effect KW - particulate matter KW - Risk analysis KW - psychological distance KW - Governmental policies KW - media exposure KW - Medium exposure KW - Moderating effect KW - News frame KW - news frames KW - Particles (particulate matter) KW - Particulate Matter KW - Policy support KW - Two paths ER - TY - JOUR TI - How anger and fear influence policy narratives: Advocacy and regulation of oil and gas drilling in Colorado(sic)(sic)(sic)Palabras Clave AU - Pierce, J.J. AU - Miller-Stevens, K. AU - Hicks, I. AU - Castaneda Zilly, D. AU - Rangaraj, S. AU - Rao, E. T2 - Review of Policy Research AB - When advocating for policy change, coalitions rely on various elements and strategies of policy narratives, including emotions. However, past research on the Narrative Policy Framework, and more broadly on the policy process, has largely ignored the role of emotions. This paper argues that emotions, such as anger and fear, are central to how coalitions advocate for policy change. It explores the role of anger and fear in policy narratives by examining the oral testimony (n = 474) given over four legislative committee hearings in March 2019 concerning Colorado Senate Bill 19-181. This bill changed the mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to prioritize protecting the environment and public health over oil and gas development. This research finds the coalition that successfully supported the bill used anger towards the oil and gas industry, while those that opposed the bill relied more on fear of the uncertain consequences of the bill. It also finds the coalition that opposed the bill relied on self-characterization as heroes and victims, which was a failed strategy. The implications for this research on the Narrative Policy Framework and, more broadly, for the policy process and advocacy are discussed. © 2022 Policy Studies Organization. DA - 2024/01/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1111/ropr.12519 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 41 IS - 1 SP - 12 EP - 34 J2 - Review of Policy Research LA - eng SN - 1541-132X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85143526686&doi=10.1111%2fropr.12519&partnerID=40&md5=dc3e35fe78a19149ca2555451336ad26 AN - WOS:000893425900001 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - United States KW - psychology KW - Fear KW - advocacy KW - emotions KW - environmental policy KW - All Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing KW - Conventional oil and gas extraction KW - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction KW - Heating oil dealers KW - Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers KW - Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers (except Bulk Stations and Terminals) KW - Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals KW - Petroleum Lubricating Oil and Grease Manufacturing KW - Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil KW - Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations KW - Anger KW - political psychology KW - Colorado KW - Drilling Oil and Gas Wells KW - Gas well drilling KW - Legislative Bodies KW - Legislative committees KW - Legislative hearings KW - Petroleum industry KW - energy policy KW - gas production KW - oil production KW - drilling KW - hydraulic fracturing KW - regulatory approach KW - state government ER - TY - JOUR TI - Climate race or collaboration? Effects of strategy framing on trust in government, nationalist sentiments, and climate action intention in international politics AU - Liu, S. AU - Kuang, K. T2 - Journalism AB - Climate change is often used as a bargaining chip for global powers to achieve political goals. Strategy framing, particularly within international political contexts, can serve as a lens to unpack the relationship between countries’ substantial climate policy and underlying political appeals in news coverage. A survey experiment (n = 331) was conducted to investigate the effects of strategy framing in international politics on trust in government, nationalist sentiments, and climate action intentions against the backdrop of China-U.S. climate relationship. Results showed that perceived strategy framing had a direct, positive association and an indirect, negative association with trust in government through anxiety. Additionally, in comparison to issue framing, exposure to strategy framing incited heightened nationalist sentiments, which in turn promoted public engagement in climate-related activities. Moreover, internal and international political efficacy moderated the effects of strategy framing perceptions on outcomes. Findings offer insights for possible cognitive, emotional, and ideological mechanisms of strategy framing’s effects in international politics. © The Author(s) 2024. DA - 2024/09/22/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1177/14648849241285508 SN - 1464-8849 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205292969&doi=10.1177%2f14648849241285508&partnerID=40&md5=f5daf6d7a5b37168db9d9ee009e1df11 AN - WOS:001322263700001 DB - Scopus KW - anxiety KW - climate action intention KW - nationalist sentiments KW - strategy faming KW - trust in government ER - TY - JOUR TI - Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 AU - Gürkan, S. T2 - Journal of European Integration AB - How does the EU use emotions in its response to international crises arising from norm violations? In order to answer this question, the article focuses on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and theoretically, it draws on the sociology of emotions literature. The article argues that EU institutional actors use emotions to construct an ‘emotional community’ through their discourses during major crises. More specifically, the article shows that emotions matter in the EU’s crisis response in three ways: First, emotions serve to construct and endure a community of values. Second, emotions frame policy options for determining the EU’s reaction to the crisis. Third, emotions construct emotional boundaries between European emotional community (norm followers/the EU) and norm violators at the international level. By applying ‘emotional community’ concept to a new territory, i.e. the EU, the article aims to broaden our understanding of the EU’s international identity construction in times of crisis. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2024/01/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1080/07036337.2024.2360703 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 46 IS - 5 SP - 635 EP - 659 J2 - Journal of European Integration LA - English SN - 0703-6337 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85198513853&doi=10.1080%2f07036337.2024.2360703&partnerID=40&md5=29ab8692dff172782b0c2fa5cb6574bb AN - WOS:001266770900009 DB - International Political Science Abstracts KW - emotions in foreign policy KW - EU foreign policy KW - norm violation KW - emotional community KW - qualitative content analysis KW - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ER - TY - JOUR TI - Visualising insecurity: the globalisation of China's racist 'counter-terror' education. AU - Tobin, D. T2 - Comparative Education AB - This paper analyses the Chinese party-state’s production of visual racism towards Uyghurs as a discursive foundation for its ethnic policy, as globally reproduced and disseminated by non-state actors. The paper draws from theoretical literature on the relationship between visual politics and affect, stressing the need for visual literacy to reflect on how images emotionally affect audiences’ identities and insecurities. It focuses this analysis on education texts in China’s post-2012 ‘de-extremification’ and ‘re-education’ campaigns, specifically on how images tell stories about life-or-death security issues that define Chinese identity. Chinese education about Uyghurs tends to frame Uyghur identities as racialised, culturally external existential threats to be defeated by state violence or teaching them to be Chinese. However, Uyghurs’ own visibility strategies in global advocacy counter the party-state’s imagery by centring their lives and experiences. The article shows how these strategies can be used as resources for teaching about Chinese politics and society. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2024/02/01/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1080/03050068.2023.2298130 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 60 IS - 1 SP - 195 EP - 215 J2 - Comparative Education LA - English SN - 0305-0068 ST - 可视化不安全感：中国种族主义式“反恐”教育的全球化 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85181237514&doi=10.1080%2f03050068.2023.2298130&partnerID=40&md5=64a1972e51f40ba804e998a107329a97 AN - WOS:001147437800001 DB - Education Source KW - policy implementation KW - Globalization KW - Nationalism KW - identity KW - ethnicity KW - Politics KW - China KW - ethnic group KW - racism KW - terrorism KW - genocide KW - education KW - Foreign Countries KW - nationalism KW - Propaganda KW - Non-state actors (International relations) KW - political violence KW - Racism KW - Muslims KW - Asians KW - Counterterrorism KW - Visual literacy KW - Ethnic Groups KW - Government (Administrative Body) KW - state role KW - racial identity KW - racial disparity KW - party politics KW - visualization KW - security threat KW - state violence KW - state-local relations KW - Uyghurs KW - visual analysis KW - visual politics ER - TY - JOUR TI - The emotional underpinning of norms and identities in framing Korean aid AU - Noh, J.-E. T2 - Development in Practice AB - While evidence is growing in relation to emotions in international relations, emotions in aid policy have been little researched. Emotions can deepen the understanding of national norms and identities, in which aid policies are grounded. Korea is establishing its norms and identities as a non-traditional donor. This article explores Korean aid, focusing on emotions as presented and circulated in publicly available documents produced by governmental aid agencies, civil society, and news media. The findings confirm that the identified emotions–including national pride, the sense of global responsibility, and friendship–reflect and construct Korean aid norms and identities. This study suggests the role of emotions in consolidating conflicting norms, shaping a unique donor identity, and building public awareness and support. This study extends the current understanding of Korean aid by highlighting the need for more attention to the emotions in aid policies. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2023/04/03/ PY - 2023 DO - 10.1080/09614524.2022.2137104 VL - 33 IS - 3 SP - 361 EP - 372 SN - 0961-4524 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85141167179&doi=10.1080%2f09614524.2022.2137104&partnerID=40&md5=7ffdbeb954921c1d7e52271f4dbbaf50 AN - WOS:000871796000001 DB - Scopus KW - government KW - identity KW - civil society KW - South Korea KW - citizenship KW - mass media KW - emotion KW - aid policy KW - Aid policy KW - global citizenship KW - norm ER - TY - JOUR TI - Hooked on a Feeling: Russia's Annexation of Crimea Through the Lens of Emotion AU - Edinger, H. T2 - Political Psychology AB - This article tests the plausibility of an affect-centered framework for foreign policy analysis, using the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an illustrative case. It identifies questions left open by prevailing accounts based on international relations theory and shows how a supplementary conceptual lens can improve existing explanations. The affective perspective suggests that the Russian president deemed intervention in Ukraine without alternative. Otherwise, Russia would have surrendered any claim to relevance in European security. More saliently, the ouster of Yanukovych, as a possible precedent for Russia, frightened Putin and increased his resolve to take action. Also, contrary to the interpretation of the annexation as an improvised reaction to a political crisis, evidence suggests that the Russian elite welcomed the opportunity to break free from uncomfortable partnership dynamics with the West. © 2023 The Author. Political Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society of Political Psychology. DA - 2023/09// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1111/pops.12889 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 749 EP - 767 SN - 0162-895X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85150206766&doi=10.1111%2fpops.12889&partnerID=40&md5=d019c3bb56c85b5e3034d26cfffe4996 AN - WOS:000950470000001 DB - Scopus KW - Russia KW - affect and emotion KW - foreign policy analysis KW - international relations theory KW - rationality KW - status ER - TY - JOUR TI - Leadership style by metaphor in crisis political discourse AU - Arcimavičienė, L. T2 - Open Linguistics AB - This study aims to show how different political leaders ideologically position themselves in the discourse of ‘problem frame’ in their first national response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To analyse the ideological nature of the ‘problem frame’, 17 leaders’ national lockdown speeches from different countries were collected and analysed within the theoretical framework of critical metaphor studies and frame semantics. Procedurally, metaphors in the collected speeches were identified by applying Pragglejaz Group’s MIP (2007) and MIPVU (2010), and coded into thematic categories via NVivo 12.0. Overall, 19 thematic codes (1,045 metaphorical expressions) were established, and their content analysis demonstrated specific differences in gender performance of a national health policy during the pandemic. It has been clarified that crisis political discourse is not that much affected by gender double bind, and female speakers openly display their femininity by focusing a lot on sensitivity and nurturance. By contrast, male speakers overwhelmingly follow a standardised competitive frame with emotional moments aimed at a more aggressive response to the pandemic and focusing on populist sentiment. © 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. DA - 2023/11/25/ PY - 2023 DO - 10.1515/opli-2022-0251 VL - 9 IS - 1 SN - 2300-9969 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85179045293&doi=10.1515%2fopli-2022-0251&partnerID=40&md5=246526596c4378f54af66447d3ee6e76 AN - WOS:001112032300001 DB - Scopus KW - gender KW - metaphor KW - crisis political discourse KW - political leaders KW - problem-frame ER - TY - JOUR TI - A call to arms: Hero–villain narratives in US security discourse AU - Homolar, A. T2 - Security Dialogue AB - The rhetoric leaders use to speak to domestic audiences about security is not simply bluster. Political agents rely upon stories of enmity and threat to represent what is happening in the international arena, to whom and why, in order to push national and international security policy agendas. They do so for the simple reason that a good story is a powerful political device. This article examines historical ‘calls to arms’ in the United States, based on insights from archival research at US presidential libraries and the United States National Archives. Drawing on narrative theory and political psychology, the article develops a new analytic framework to explain the political currency and staying power of hero–villain security narratives, which divide the world into opposing spheres of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. Shifting the conceptual focus away from speakers and settings towards audience and affect, it argues that the resonance of hero–villain security narratives lies in the way their plot structure keeps the audience in suspense. Because they are consequential rhetorical tools that shape security policy practices, the stories political agents tell about security demand greater attention in the broader field of international security studies. © The Author(s) 2021. DA - 2022/08// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1177/09670106211005897 VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 324 EP - 341 SN - 0967-0106 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85107397928&doi=10.1177%2f09670106211005897&partnerID=40&md5=168cbce16f3eef20f28ba71b72ba9593 AN - WOS:000661208700001 DB - Scopus KW - United States KW - Emotion KW - narrative analysis KW - international security KW - micro-moves ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotions, narratives, and the art of making meanings: Nantes’ memorial to the abolition of slavery AU - Hourcade, R. T2 - Critical Policy Studies AB - This paper discusses the role and use of emotion in public policy. Approaching emotions from the standpoint of narrative analysis, it offers a detailed account of the way emotions were storied and enrolled in a specific local policy process: the construction of a memorial to the abolition of slavery between 1998 and 2012 in Nantes, France, a former slave trade port. The article finds evidence that emotions are a powerful instrument for framing problems and solutions and making sense of a new policy instrument. However, it also argues that the ability of policy actors to enroll emotions in meaning-making operations is structured by dominant policy beliefs and constrained by power relations. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2021/07/03/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1080/19460171.2020.1818110 VL - 15 IS - 3 SP - 292 EP - 310 SN - 1946-0171 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090302789&doi=10.1080%2f19460171.2020.1818110&partnerID=40&md5=ecce397cdf5066fd7cc2a921924f5139 AN - WOS:000568316800001 DB - Scopus KW - ethics KW - local policies KW - memory politics KW - architecture KW - race relations KW - Interpretive studies ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotionalising national security, depoliticising the israeli-palestinian conflict AU - Sa’ar, A. AU - Aharoni, S.B. AU - Lewin, A. T2 - Emotions and Society AB - This study explores the growing presence of emotional terminology within Israeli popular discourses on national security, as reflected in the daily talk of Israelis living on the border with the Gaza Strip. It is based on ethnography conducted in 2016–18 as part of a multi-site, multidisciplinary study on articulations of security in frontier communities. Findings reveal that the grassroots discourse of national security is saturated with emotional language, and that this, in turn, is interlaced with relationships terminology. Residents report high levels of insecurity (fear, trauma, and constant disquiet), alongside pride in their families’ and communities’ strong care and solidarity, which they perceive as a great source of resilience. Parenthetically, the state and the military, too, are made concrete through relational emotions. We argue that the language of emotional-relationality frames national security and resilience as mental dispositions, and that this subsequently renders the robust power apparatuses that maintain their semi-transparency. The analysis dwells on the political implications of the phenomenon. We note an association between residents’ preoccupations with the conflict’s emotional effects on their lives and their consistent avoidance from criticising the state’s policies regarding its management or potential transformation. This transposition of the political with the emotional, we argue, offers a distinct insight into Israelis’ familiar tendency to avoid criticising Israel’s aggressions against the Palestinians: the embeddedness of national security in emotional relationships implicitly constructs political criticism as betrayal of intimate relations. © Bristol University Press 2021. DA - 2021/05// PY - 2021 DO - 10.1332/263169021X16123454697796 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 55 EP - 71 SN - 2631-6897 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85106704685&doi=10.1332%2f263169021X16123454697796&partnerID=40&md5=a83ec9bf278c99f458c4487644ddf7b3 AN - WOS:000788491700004 DB - Scopus KW - Trauma KW - Emotions KW - Israel KW - Resilience KW - Armed conflic ER - TY - JOUR TI - Strong Language: Mathew Carey, Sensibility, and the American State, 1819-1835 AU - Vandecreek, D.E. T2 - Journal of Policy History AB - Mathew Carey promoted the high tariff as a political expression of humane sentiments that relieved American workers of the misery caused by low wages and unemployment. This made him an early example of a state-builder working outside the state itself, building ideological frames and using emotional appeals to promote the expansion of state capacity. Although other aspects of his protectionism appealed to the republican tradition, Carey meshed his sentimental appeal with the liberalism. Later reformers integrated sensibility with liberalism by reference to the rights of vulnerable parties, but Carey added an appeal to an enlightened self-interest that allowed American manufacturers to profit while protecting workers. Although he became a well-known advocate for the organized provision of social welfare, his continued opposition to the widespread distribution of outdoor relief also suggests that he viewed the policy as a circumscribed federal social-welfare measure providing work rather than direct aid. © 2021 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. DA - 2021/04// PY - 2021 DO - 10.1017/S0898030621000038 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 113 EP - 142 SN - 0898-0306 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85104607076&doi=10.1017%2fS0898030621000038&partnerID=40&md5=a5455bab86da00c4046fd8dac5ff8afc AN - WOS:000640988400001 DB - Scopus KW - social welfare KW - American state-building KW - Mathew Carey KW - protectionism KW - tariffs ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ontological crises, framing and the (de)politicisation of EU foreign policy: the case of EU-Israel relations AU - Voltolini, B. T2 - Journal of European Integration AB - This article analyses how non-state actors (NSAs) and foreign states contribute to the (de)politicisation of EU foreign policy. It shows that the link between crises and politicisation in EU foreign policy is mediated by the frames and the strategies that NSAs employ when lobbying the EU. By pointing to inconsistencies between EU actions and its claimed identity, they challenge the EU’s foundational narrative, creating ontological crises which can potentially become politicised. When actors employ a legal/technical frame and an inside strategy, the crisis tends to be depoliticised. In contrast, politicisation occurs when a political/emotional frame is combined with noisy politics that targets the public at large. Based on documentary analysis and interviews with EU officials and NSAs, this argument is discussed with reference to EU foreign policy vis-à-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a key issue on the EU’s foreign policy agenda. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2020/07/03/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1080/07036337.2020.1792463 VL - 42 IS - 5 SP - 751 EP - 766 SN - 0703-6337 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089704941&doi=10.1080%2f07036337.2020.1792463&partnerID=40&md5=924ee4b45843732504b515215bec0c3f AN - WOS:000567304200009 DB - Scopus KW - framing KW - (de)politicisation KW - EU ontological crises KW - inside/outside lobbying strategies ER - TY - JOUR TI - The construction of urgency discourse around mega-projects: the Israeli case. AU - van Wijk, J. AU - Fischhendler, I. T2 - Policy Sciences AB - Various studies have pointed to urgency in decision-making as a major catalyst for policy change. Urgency evokes a crisis frame in which emotions and cognitive and institutional biases are more likely to be mobilised in support of the policy preferences of powerful actors. As a result, decision-makers tend to be driven by emotions and opportunity, often with detrimental results for the quality of the planning process. Although urgency has such a profound influence on the quality of decision-making, little is known about how, when and by whom urgency is constructed in the planning process of public infrastructure. By means of a discourse analysis, this study traces the timing, motives and ways actors discursively construct a sense of urgency in decision-making on the building of terminals for the reception and treatment of the natural gas that was recently found off the coast of Israel. The results of this study indicate that government regulators, but also private sector actors, deliberately constructed an urgency discourse at critical moments during the planning process. By evoking terms that resonated with the target audience, regulators employed urgency as an instrument to legitimise unorthodox planning practices whilst precluding the consideration of alternative planning solutions. Thus, urgency framing is a means of controlling both the discourse and the agenda—and is therefore an exercise in power maintenance—by entrenched interest groups. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. DA - 2017/09/01/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1007/s11077-016-9262-0 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 50 IS - 3 SP - 469 EP - 494 J2 - Policy Sciences LA - eng SN - 0032-2687 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84984653444&doi=10.1007%2fs11077-016-9262-0&partnerID=40&md5=7a51400266e04849b72abc01dba4b96d AN - WOS:000408221400008 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Policy sciences KW - decision making KW - Government policy KW - Infrastructure KW - Decision making KW - Framing KW - Israel KW - Discourse analysis KW - Discourse KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Natural gas KW - Natural Gas Distribution KW - Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas KW - Planning KW - regulatory framework KW - Crisis KW - crisis management KW - planning process KW - development discourse KW - infrastructure planning KW - Mega-projects KW - planning practice KW - policy reform KW - project management KW - Urgency ER - TY - JOUR TI - Let’s Intervene! But Only If They’re Like Us: The Effects of Group Dynamics and Emotion on the Willingness to Support Humanitarian Intervention AU - Grillo, M.C. AU - Pupcenoks, J. T2 - International Interactions AB - International relations (IR) studies on humanitarian intervention have debated both the nature and strength of intervention norms. This article contributes to this debate by exploring under what conditions individuals are willing to support military humanitarian intervention (MHI) and the psychological factors that influence whether, and the degree to which individuals support MHI. Taking a psychological approach, we hypothesized that individuals’ decision to support MHI is influenced by in-group favoritism and emotional responses to in-group suffering. We tested our theory with two experiments, each of which recruited roughly 200 American participants. Both experiments centered on the ongoing Syrian civil war and assessed Americans’ willingness to support intervention to protect different civilian groups. The results suggested that support for intervention was widespread, but not a majority view in most cases. The findings also suggested that participants exhibited slightly higher rates of support for intervention when those suffering were Christian, as opposed to Muslim. Furthermore, we found that the dynamics of support for intervention changed when chemical weapons were introduced into the scenario, which reframed the the crisis as a national security issue. Overall, our results suggest that individuals’ decisions to act upon norms can be influenced by the context of a crisis and individual level psychological factors, which have been under explored in IR scholarship on norms. © 2017 Taylor & Francis. DA - 2017/03// PY - 2017 DO - 10.1080/03050629.2016.1185420 VL - 43 IS - 2 SP - 349 EP - 374 SN - 0305-0629 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84974817772&doi=10.1080%2f03050629.2016.1185420&partnerID=40&md5=f8fcd1f8301daff94ba59094a959ff88 AN - WOS:000399479100007 DB - Scopus KW - framing KW - foreign policy KW - public opinion KW - emotion KW - experiments KW - Humanitarian intervention KW - in-group favoritism ER - TY - JOUR TI - How policies become contested: a spiral of imagination and evidence in a large infrastructure project. AU - Wolf, E.E.A. AU - Van Dooren, W. T2 - Policy Sciences AB - This article investigates how framing processes lead to polarization in the public debate on a large infrastructure project. Drawing on an analysis of newspaper articles about the “Oosterweel connection” in Antwerp (Belgium), it concludes that imaginative framing (appeals to emotions via symbolic language) and framing through evidence (appeals to rationality via factual language) mutually reinforce each other. Because of the mutual reinforcement, we talk of a spiralling motion. When evidence backs up appeals to the imagination, such as when facts back up metaphors, these appeals are endowed with authority and hence legitimacy. While this strengthens appeals that have been “proven” to be true, it also makes actors backing these appeals increasingly frustrated with other parties that still refuse to accept them. Because of their frustration, the former are spurred to launch new imaginative appeals conveying their anger and to seek new evidence to substantiate these new appeals. Going back and forth between imaginative appeals and appeals to evidence, all parties in a conflict develop their own vision of the contested issue and their own evidence base for the policy position. Over time, their tolerance for ambiguity decreases and the debate polarizes. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. DA - 2017/09/01/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1007/s11077-017-9275-3 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 50 IS - 3 SP - 449 EP - 468 J2 - Policy Sciences LA - eng SN - 0032-2687 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85009250336&doi=10.1007%2fs11077-017-9275-3&partnerID=40&md5=ad3fcafe733610796bfb42cb3bc29892 AN - WOS:000408221400007 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Policy sciences KW - Belgium KW - policy making KW - spatial analysis KW - Conflict KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Polarization (Social sciences) KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Planning KW - Debate KW - Imagination KW - conflict management KW - infrastructure planning KW - Antwerp [Belgium] KW - Evidence-based policy-making KW - Frame analysis KW - Spatial policy ER - TY - JOUR TI - How Young, Uninsured Americans Respond to News Coverage of Obamacare: An Experimental Test of an Affective Mediation Model. AU - Martin, J.A. AU - Myrick, J.G. AU - Walker, K.K. T2 - Mass Communication and Society AB - This experiment integrated theory from multiple domains to examine how aspects of news coverage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and differences in participants’ cognitive and emotional contingent conditions interact to shape attitudes and behavioral intentions toward health care legislation. Using a sample of uninsured young adults (N = 1,056), we tested an affective mediation model, which assessed the mechanisms through which media frames, exemplar case studies, and individual predispositions affect this type of news consumer. Results demonstrate the complicated pathways through which emotions mediate the effects of news coverage of ACA based on political predispositions, the need for orientation toward the health care issue, and the influence of equivalency framing in the form of example cases. These findings contribute to a more nuanced explanation of the causal mechanisms underpinning framing effects of public policy news coverage on an understudied population. The need for further examination of emotion along with cognition when investigating framing effects of public policy news is discussed, and the importance of exemplar cases as a significant manifestation of the effects equivalence framing is highlighted. Copyright © Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. DA - 2017/09/01/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1080/15205436.2017.1333621 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 20 IS - 5 SP - 614 EP - 636 J2 - Mass Communication & Society LA - eng SN - 1520-5436 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020729287&doi=10.1080%2f15205436.2017.1333621&partnerID=40&md5=2c90f3d3ee95421955b81baf5206faa1 AN - WOS:000418812300002 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - United States KW - Public opinion KW - Government Policy Making KW - Emotions KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - 30 KW - 40 KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older) KW - Thirties (30-39 yrs) KW - Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs) KW - Health Care Delivery KW - Political communication KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Health policy KW - Mass media KW - Medically uninsured persons KW - Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act KW - News Media KW - Health Insurance KW - Uninsured (Health Insurance) ER - TY - JOUR TI - Aristotelian framing: logos, ethos, pathos and the use of evidence in policy frames AU - Stucki, I. AU - Sager, F. T2 - Policy Sciences AB - In this research note, we propose to complement the analytical toolbox for framing analyses with the categories of Aristotelian rhetoric. As our case, we analyse the function of the use of evidence in frame building in the context of Swiss direct-democratic campaigns preceding votes on smoking bans. Based on rhetoric, a frame can be considered to contain three interrelated elements: (1) political arguments (logos), (2) cultural symbols (ethos), and (3) emotional appeal (pathos). By comparing evidence-based arguments with arguments that do not refer to evidence, the research note illustrates that backing arguments (logos) by evidence increases their trustworthiness (ethos) but not their emotional appeal (pathos). We consider the Aristotelian categories a fruitful tool to enlarge existing framing research with regard to the use of evidence. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. DA - 2018/09// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1007/s11077-018-9322-8 VL - 51 IS - 3 SP - 373 EP - 385 SN - 0032-2687 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048033895&doi=10.1007%2fs11077-018-9322-8&partnerID=40&md5=89baeed8b47c5f26ea85f475868fbd01 AN - WOS:000441235300006 DB - Scopus KW - policy making KW - smoking KW - Aristotle KW - Ethos KW - Logos KW - Pathos KW - Policy arguments KW - Policy framing KW - Use of evidence ER - TY - JOUR TI - Politics, values, and morals: Assessing consumer responses to the framing of residential renewable energy in the United States AU - Arpan, L.M. AU - Xu, X. AU - Raney, A.A. AU - Chen, C.-F. AU - Wang, Z. T2 - Energy Research and Social Science AB - Despite growing availability of renewable energy or “green pricing” programs for residential use, consumer adoption in the U.S is limited. Existing data indicate that consumer values and political orientation—both of which reflect moral considerations—are associated with interest in renewable energy policies and use. An online experiment (n = 317) tested whether promotional messages framing renewable energy as consistent with participants’ primary moral concerns, as delineated by moral foundations theory, would indirectly lead to more positive message evaluation and greater willingness to pay for such programs. Specifically, the interactions of framing effects with participants’ political orientation were examined, as were the mediating roles of message-induced hope and personal moral norms. Results indicated political orientation was the most consistent predictor of message-induced hope, personal moral norms, and willingness to pay. Message framing did not interact with political orientation to influence mediating or outcome variables. Main effects of framing on hope were identified. Implications for promotion and adoption of residential renewable energy programs are discussed. © 2018 DA - 2018/12// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1016/j.erss.2018.08.007 VL - 46 SP - 321 EP - 331 SN - 2214-6296 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051646229&doi=10.1016%2fj.erss.2018.08.007&partnerID=40&md5=1da33f0126a2093592d35aa7be002759 AN - WOS:000454169200031 DB - Scopus KW - Emotion KW - Renewable energy KW - Message framing KW - Moral foundations KW - Moral norms KW - Political orientation ER - TY - JOUR TI - Trauma-Informed: Dependency Court Personnel’s Understanding of Trauma and Perceptions of Court Policies, Practices, and Environment. AU - Knoche, V.A. AU - Summers, A. AU - Miller, M.K. T2 - Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma AB - The law and legal processes can affect the psychological and emotional well-being of the people involved. Individuals who are already traumatized can experience stress which triggers prior trauma through court policies, practices, and environment during involvement with the child abuse and neglect court system. However, some courts use trauma-informed policies, practices, and environments which are based on the notion of therapeutic jurisprudence. The purpose of this analysis was to determine if dependency court personnel in larger jurisdictions have differing understandings of trauma, and differing perceptions of court policies, practices, and environment than their counterparts from smaller jurisdictions. Results indicate that smaller jurisdiction personnel have a higher understanding of trauma, as well as perceive themselves to be more trauma-informed in the areas of policy, practice, and environment when compared to larger jurisdiction personnel. Implications are discussed and recommendations from a therapeutic jurisprudence framework are suggested. © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. DA - 2018/12/01/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1007/s40653-018-0219-7 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 495 EP - 505 J2 - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma LA - eng SN - 1936-1521 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057013497&doi=10.1007%2fs40653-018-0219-7&partnerID=40&md5=1e979354f239aff85a966c95c9173fd7 AN - WOS:000521578600010 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - social status KW - Article KW - human KW - Surveys KW - child abuse KW - Trauma KW - Test Construction KW - mental health KW - Psychology KW - Statistical sampling KW - Courts KW - legal aspect KW - domestic violence KW - 30 KW - 40 KW - Adolescence (13-17 yrs) KW - Childhood (birth-12 yrs) KW - School Age (6-12 yrs) KW - Child Abuse KW - Mental health KW - Adjudication KW - Wounds & injuries KW - Child Neglect KW - Child abuse laws KW - Lawyers KW - Social context KW - Therapeutics laws KW - outcome assessment KW - posttraumatic stress disorder KW - jurisprudence KW - work environment KW - educational status KW - general practice KW - traffic accident KW - Trauma-informed KW - social worker KW - insurance KW - court KW - injury KW - recidivism KW - advanced practice provider KW - Child abuse and neglect court KW - court policy KW - Jurisdiction size KW - lawyer KW - probation KW - Therapeutic jurisprudence ER - TY - JOUR TI - The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security AU - Homolar, A. AU - Scholz, R. T2 - Cambridge Review of International Affairs AB - For most observers, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States (US) came as a shock. This has been widely recast as the culmination of the American public’s long-standing dissatisfaction with the political elite and deep-seated frustrations with broader socio-economic conditions. We argue that the Trump campaign’s success also stemmed from its effective use of an emotionally charged, anti-establishment crisis narrative. With insights from political psychology, we examine the socio-linguistic mechanisms that underlie the effectiveness of ‘Trump-speak’ through both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of Trump’s communications toolkit during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. We show that his leadership legitimation claims rest significantly upon ‘crisis talk’ that puts his audience in a loss frame with nothing to lose and explain why ‘crisis talk’ impacts on political behaviour. As we demonstrate, the crisis stories that political agents tell simultaneously instil ontological insecurity among the American public and serve to transform their anxiety into confidence that the narrator’s policy agendas are the route back to ‘normality’. Through these rhetorical mechanisms, the Trump campaign manipulated individuals’ ontological (in)security as a tool in the politics of reassurance at the broader, societal level. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DA - 2019/05/04/ PY - 2019 DO - 10.1080/09557571.2019.1575796 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 344 EP - 364 SN - 0955-7571 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062706566&doi=10.1080%2f09557571.2019.1575796&partnerID=40&md5=fab0a391bb0471febae254fb9f1ef1de AN - WOS:000463190300001 DB - Scopus ER - TY - JOUR TI - Outrage in Malaysia: The Politics of Taking Offence. AU - Lee, J.C.H. T2 - East Asia: An International Quarterly AB - This article develops a general articulation of the politics of offence and outrage by drawing on examples of high profile political furores in Malaysia. In these furores, minority ethno-religious groups and individuals ostensibly caused offence to the majority Muslim Malay population. Although these offences were framed as transgressions of genuine sensitivities, I argue that politics of offence must be seen for the political utility it holds for those who claim to represent the majority group that has been putatively offended. In Malaysia, a key component of this political strategy is the positioning by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) of its constituency—the Malays—as being comparatively economically weaker than non-Malay groups. This positioning in turn warrants the continuation of the positive discrimination policies of the New Economic Policy of the 1970s, which was implemented to achieve parity between the major ethnic groups in Malaysia. An example of this was when UMNO vehemently rejected the findings of a think tank that argued that the New Economic Policy’s target of having 30% Malay ownership of equity had been achieved. This positioning of an in-group as weak, and the normalisation of privilege in the Malaysian context, is analysed in view of two other cases studies, Erving Goffman’s concept of ‘the turn’, and Ward Goodenough’s description of the human experience of outrage. I also show that ‘outrage’ as a politico-emotional strategy remains effective despite the momentous results of Malaysia’s general elections in 2018, which might otherwise herald a new era of inter-ethnic co-operation. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V. DA - 2018/09/01/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1007/s12140-018-9295-4 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 35 IS - 3 SP - 249 EP - 265 J2 - East Asia: An International Quarterly LA - eng SN - 1096-6838 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052122821&doi=10.1007%2fs12140-018-9295-4&partnerID=40&md5=15693ecd9facaa266466a78d8eadfd47 AN - 132695627 DB - Historical Abstracts KW - policy implementation KW - ethnicity KW - Ethnicity KW - ethnic group KW - morality KW - Malaysia KW - Identity politics KW - MUSLIMS KW - ECONOMIC policy KW - GOFFMAN, Erving, 1922-1982 KW - MALAYSIA KW - MALAYSIAN politics & government KW - UNITED Malays National Organisation KW - ownership KW - economic policy KW - Moral outrage KW - Offence taking ER - TY - JOUR TI - Selling Pre-K: Media, politics, and policy in the case of Universal Prekindergarten in New York City AU - Delaney, K.K. AU - Neuman, S.B. T2 - Teachers College Record AB - Background/Context: Educational policy is informed by multiple stakeholders and actors. Research has focused on understanding how policy decisions are informed and made, as well as how teachers and school leaders take up these policies in their practice. However, few researchers have examined how educational policy is framed for the larger public and voting electorate through media coverage and how the use of rhetorical devices can shape the public's understandings of policies, practices, and promised outcomes. Publicly funded prekindergarten is an emerging movement in many states. Purpose/Objective: This research examined how local and national media framed the scale-up of publicly funded, Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in the largest school district in the country: New York City. Across two years, including a mayoral primary, mayoral election, and highprofile state budget negotiations, we examine how six media outlets used rhetoric to create specific narratives about the goals, outcomes, and possibilities of UPK that resonated with voters. Research Design: Qualitative methods were used to examine the content of six national and local media sources. Over 640 sources were analyzed to address the questions central to this study. Utilizing our theoretical framework of rhetorical policy analysis, as well as emergent coding, we cross-analyzed multiple themes, working to identify consistent and dominant narratives across the media coverage. Findings: Findings reveal that four main narratives dominated the media coverage of the scale-up of pre-K in New York City. These narratives used emotional rhetoric to frame UPK in ways that detracted from meaningful, research-informed information about how to successfully support the care and learning of young children. Conclusions/Recommendations: The role of media in framing educational policy and practice for the public is growing. Researchers and policy makers must be mindful of how the rhetorical approaches utilized by the media can and will inform the public's understanding of public education policy. © by Teachers College, Columbia University. DA - 2018/04// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1177/016146811812000406 VL - 120 IS - 4 SN - 0161-4681 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85068430103&doi=10.1177%2f016146811812000406&partnerID=40&md5=b8747f6dc43955432b78d2bb78f9023e AN - WOS:000432033100001 DB - Scopus ER - TY - JOUR TI - Child protection, child deaths, politics and policy making: Numbers as rhetoric AU - Harrison, C. AU - Harries, M. AU - Liddiard, M. T2 - Children Australia AB - Child welfare policy making is a highly contested area in public policy. Child abuse scandals prompt critical appraisals of parents, professionals and the child protection system creating a tipping point for reform. One hundred and six transcripts of debates in the West Australian Parliament from August until December 2006 relating to child welfare and child deaths were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The analysis found that statistics about child deaths were conflated with other levels of childhood vulnerability promoting blame, fear, risk and an individual responsibility theme. The key rhetorical strategy was the use of numbers to generate emotion, credibility and authority to frame child maltreatment narrowly as a moral crime. Rhetoric and emotions is about telling causal stories and will remain ubiquitous in social policy making. So, in order to guide policy debate and creation, ground their claims and manage ambiguity and uncertainty, policy makers, researchers and practitioners working with complex social issues will do well to step into this public and political discourse and be strategic in shaping more nuanced alternative frames. © The Author(s) 2018. DA - 2018/09// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1017/cha.2018.13 VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 198 EP - 207 SN - 1035-0772 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044451184&doi=10.1017%2fcha.2018.13&partnerID=40&md5=edcc42c96a7cbd1f679d1094722107a3 AN - WOS:000443234100008 DB - Scopus KW - Social policy KW - Politics KW - Statistics KW - Child abuse KW - Child protection KW - Numbers ER - TY - JOUR TI - Communicating Inequalities to Enhance Support for Obesity-Prevention Policies: The Role of Social Comparisons, Age Frames, and Emotion AU - Skurka, C. T2 - Health Communication AB - With certain populations in the United States at higher risk for obesity than other populations, public health advocates have attempted to draw attention to these inequalities to galvanize support for obesity-mitigation policies. Yet research comparing different messages about social inequalities indicates that not all social comparisons are persuasive. Drawing on Weiner’s (1986) theory of perceived responsibility and social motivation, I experimentally tested promising message frames about obesity disparities. Participants (N = 653) read one of six messages following a 3 (social comparison frame: geographic vs. racial vs. no-comparison) × 2 (age frame: child vs. adult) between-subjects design. Unexpectedly, geographic frames (rural/urban) indirectly decreased policy support relative to the control frame by way of increased counterarguing. Compared to adult frames about obesity inequalities, childhood frames evoked more sympathy and less internal attribution, which in turn positively predicted support for obesity-prevention policies. Practical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed. © 2017, © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. DA - 2019/01/28/ PY - 2019 DO - 10.1080/10410236.2017.1405477 VL - 34 IS - 2 SP - 227 EP - 237 SN - 1041-0236 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85035117181&doi=10.1080%2f10410236.2017.1405477&partnerID=40&md5=3ba0d9e48ef02a16e7c4109e0a2862b9 AN - WOS:000452856100011 DB - Scopus KW - Humans KW - United States KW - Male KW - Female KW - Adult KW - female KW - human KW - male KW - adult KW - social responsibility KW - Social Responsibility KW - Emotions KW - Public Opinion KW - Health Policy KW - public opinion KW - Persuasive Communication KW - Healthcare Disparities KW - Obesity KW - obesity KW - emotion KW - health care policy KW - persuasive communication KW - health care disparity KW - Health disparities KW - message framing KW - theory of perceived responsibility and social motivation ER - TY - JOUR TI - Recall and effectiveness of messages promoting smoke-free policies in rural communities. AU - Rayens, M.K. AU - Butler, K.M. AU - Wiggins, A.T. AU - Kostygina, G. AU - Langley, R.E. AU - Hahn, E.J. T2 - Nicotine & Tobacco Research AB - Introduction: Low-cost media campaigns increase demand for smoke-free policies in underserved rural areas. The study examined the impact of loss- and gain-framed smoke-free print ads on recall and perceived effectiveness in rural communities, controlling for personal characteristics. Methods: Following 6- to 9-month print media campaigns in three rural counties, recall and perceived effectiveness of loss-framed (ie, targeting dangers of secondhand smoke [SHS]) and gain-framed (ie, highlighting positive aspects of smoke-free air) ads were assessed using random-digit-dial phone surveys. Respondents were asked if they remembered each ad, whether they liked it, whether they were prompted to contact a smoke-free coalition, whether the ad made them think, and whether it prompted emotion. Mixed modeling assessed whether personal factors predicted ad recall or perceived effectiveness. Results: Loss-framed ads were less likely to be recalled but more likely to prompt emotion. For ads of both frame types, females reported greater recall and perceived effectiveness than males. Those with less education reported higher perceived effectiveness of the ads but lower recall. Nonsmokers were more likely than smokers to perceive the ads as effective. Knowledge of SHS risk and support for smoke-free workplaces were positively associated with recall and effectiveness. Conclusions: Ad recall and perceived effectiveness were associated with framing and demographic and personal characteristics. Smoke-free efforts in rural areas may be bolstered by continuing to promote benefits of smoke-free workplace policies and educate on SHS risks. Rural areas may need to provide a combination of ad types and framing strategies to appeal to a wide audience. Implications: Rural communities are disproportionately affected by SHS and less likely to be protected by smoke-free policies. This study adds evidence-based guidance for tailoring rural smokefree media campaigns using different framing: gain-framed messages (ie, benefits of smoke-free environments) to promote recall and loss-framed content (ie, dangers of SHS) to prompt emotion. Further, gain-framed messages that are localized to the rural community may be especially effective. Findings support designing smoke-free campaigns in rural communities with the audience in mind by tailoring messages to age, sex, and education level. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) DA - 2016/05/01/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.1093/ntr/ntv197 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 18 IS - 5 SP - 1340 EP - 1347 J2 - Nicotine & Tobacco Research LA - eng SN - 1462-2203 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964939977&doi=10.1093%2fntr%2fntv197&partnerID=40&md5=cdf01fb247fe270a456f7c9319edcb3a AN - WOS:000376350700120 DB - Global Health KW - Policy Making KW - demography KW - rural population KW - Rural Population KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Female KW - Adult KW - Middle Aged KW - Article KW - attitude to health KW - female KW - human KW - male KW - rural area KW - adult KW - aged KW - Aged KW - middle aged KW - Adolescent KW - Advertising as Topic KW - Young Adult KW - advertising KW - Messages KW - Emotions KW - education KW - Smoking Cessation KW - risk assessment KW - Health Promotion KW - social media KW - health promotion KW - Recall (Learning) KW - Smoking KW - Memory KW - man KW - health policy KW - surveys KW - tobacco smoking KW - communities KW - work places KW - rural communities KW - social interaction KW - 30 KW - 40 KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older) KW - Middle Age (40-64 yrs) KW - Thirties (30-39 yrs) KW - Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs) KW - Aged (65 yrs & older) KW - Very Old (85 yrs & older) KW - Rural Environments KW - mass media KW - smoking KW - health impact assessment KW - campaigns KW - passive smoking KW - emotion KW - priority journal KW - health care policy KW - information dissemination KW - workplace KW - risk factor KW - sex difference KW - support group KW - Aged, 80 and over KW - controlled study KW - adolescent KW - young adult KW - prevention and control KW - clinical effectiveness KW - educational status KW - Workplace KW - medical information KW - public health message KW - very elderly KW - behavior assessment KW - Smoke-Free Policy KW - smoking ban KW - functional assessment KW - Mental Recall KW - recall KW - Tobacco Smoke Pollution ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Effects of Emotional Appeals and Gain Versus Loss Framing in Communicating Sea Star Wasting Disease. AU - Lu, H. T2 - Science Communication AB - In response to the recent sea star wasting disease event and the growing concern over the negative consequences of eco-depression regarding environmental crises, this study investigated the effects of two emotional appeals (sadness and hope) and their interaction with gain versus loss framing on information seeking, policy support, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions. Overall, the results suggest that the sadness appeal was an effective approach in promoting information seeking and policy support, whereas the impacts of the hope appeal were limited in this context. In addition, this study provides initial evidence that a sadness appeal will be more effective when it is accompanied by gain framing and that a hope appeal tends to have greater impacts when it is juxtaposed with loss framing. Future implications and limitations are also discussed. © 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. DA - 2016/04/01/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.1177/1075547015619173 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 143 EP - 169 J2 - Science Communication LA - English SN - 1075-5470 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962522407&doi=10.1177%2f1075547015619173&partnerID=40&md5=7f9635533770df5f2b528300e3354f0e AN - WOS:000372882600001 DB - Education Source KW - framing KW - Environmental degradation KW - Frames (Social sciences) KW - Information-seeking behavior KW - Hope KW - Sadness KW - Diseases KW - Starfishes KW - hope KW - sadness KW - emotional appeal KW - sea star wasting disease ER - TY - JOUR TI - Enter emotions. Appealing to anxiety and anger in a process of municipal amalgamation AU - Verhoeven, I. AU - Duyvendak, J.W. T2 - Critical Policy Studies AB - In recent years, emotions have taken center stage in studying politics. However, the field of interpretive policy analysis has largely neglected emotions. In this paper, we argue that we can enter emotions by studying emotional appeals by collective political actors, which are conveyed through emotion words and metaphors. For our empirical analysis, we draw on the political mobilization against the municipal amalgamation of The Hague and its vicinity in The Netherlands between 1997 and 2001. Our analysis indicates that the framing by collective actors contained emotional appeals to anxiety and anger, shifting, over time, from anxiety to anger. This shift resonated with citizens’ opinions and feelings, and provided important emotional energy to citizens’ protest against municipal amalgamation. These emotional appeals provided emotional energy that fueled many protest activities during the summer and fall of 1998. These findings are also relevant for studying other policy controversies and to more mundane processes of policy formation and implementation. © 2015 Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 DO - 10.1080/19460171.2015.1032990 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 468 EP - 485 SN - 1946-0171 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945232656&doi=10.1080%2f19460171.2015.1032990&partnerID=40&md5=be84b83fc848b989cb223e15f065a4d5 AN - WOS:000389959000005 DB - Scopus KW - anxiety KW - anger KW - metaphors KW - emotion words KW - emotional appeals KW - emotional energy ER - TY - JOUR TI - What should we do now? Support of critical national policies depends on social psychological processes and media framing. AU - Gardikiotis, A. AU - Xanthopoulos, P. AU - Katsaounidou, A. AU - Papasarafianou, S. AU - Fourkalidou, D. T2 - Hellenic Journal of Psychology AB - The study examined the factors that predict support of national policies during the Greek economic crisis: Greece leaving the European monetary union (Grexit) or agreeing on a new memorandum that entails bailout packages in return of austerity measures. The relations between support of these policies and social identity, perceived injustice, collective efficacy, and emotions (anger, fear-and-helplessness) were found significant. These relationships were moderated by media frames that portrayed the economic situation as uncertain (vs. certain). Uncertainty frame moderated the relationship of (a) collective efficacy with policy support and of (b) fear-and-helplessness with policy support. A moderated mediation analysis also showed that media frame moderated the mediational relationship between perceived injustice and anger in predicting Grexit. The results suggest that support to such policies depends on people’s subjective interpretations of their situation (e.g., perceived injustice) but media frames affect these processes as well. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) DA - 2017/01/01/ PY - 2017 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 223 EP - 241 J2 - Hellenic Journal of Psychology LA - eng UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044385815&partnerID=40&md5=0457cc5f50f5b8310697655dc0e3a3ec AN - 2018-17761-002 DB - APA PsycInfo KW - Mass Media KW - Emotions KW - Fear KW - Uncertainty KW - Identity KW - 30 KW - 40 KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older) KW - Middle Age (40-64 yrs) KW - Thirties (30-39 yrs) KW - Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs) KW - Anger KW - Social Identity KW - Framing Effects KW - Social injustice KW - Collective efficacy KW - Policy support KW - Media framing ER - TY - JOUR TI - Shifting frames: Conditional indirect effects of contested issues on perceived effectiveness through multiple emotions. AU - Feinholdt, A. AU - Schuck, A.R.T. AU - Lecheler, S.K. AU - De Vreese, C.H. T2 - Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications AB - Prior research has found that exposure to news frames can cause emotional responses to political issues. Yet, little is known about how different combinations of news frames and issues relate to discrete emotions and whether these emotions, in turn, affect issue perceptions. The present study investigates these questions by testing whether (a) the effects of news articles, featuring highly versus moderately contested policy issues on perceived policy effectiveness (PPE), are mediated by three discrete emotions (anger, fear, and hope) and (b) if these effects depend on the type of generic news frame used (human interest vs. economic consequences). An online experimental survey (N = 405) demonstrated that the effects of issue contestation on PPE were mediated by hope and anger, but not by fear. These effects were only apparent within a human interest frame. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) DA - 2017/01/01/ PY - 2017 DO - 10.1027/1864-1105/a000165 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 29 IS - 2 SP - 81 EP - 91 J2 - Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications LA - eng SN - 1864-1105 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020013077&doi=10.1027%2f1864-1105%2fa000165&partnerID=40&md5=5d82231f15454d6602758a5a702ffc9e AN - WOS:000405009100002 DB - APA PsycArticles KW - Policy Making KW - Public Opinion KW - Emotional Responses KW - Framing Effects KW - News Media KW - Contested issues KW - Discrete emotions KW - Moderated mediation KW - News framing effects ER - TY - JOUR TI - Fairness and the Politics of Resentment. AU - Hoggett, P. AU - Wilkinson, H. AU - Beedell, P. T2 - Journal of Social Policy AB - The role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of 'anti-welfare populism' advanced by the Coalition Government in the UK after 2010. We argue that UK political parties have appropriated the discourse of fairness to promote fundamentally divisive policies which have been popular with large sections of the electorate including, paradoxically, many poorer voters. In focus group research in white working class communities in the UK undertaken just before the 2010 General Election, resentments related to perceived unfairness and loss emerged as very strong themes among our respondents. We examine such resentments in terms of an underlying 'structure of feeling' which fuels the reactionary populism seen in 'anti-welfare' discourses. These promote increasingly conditional and punitive forms of welfare in countries experiencing austerity, such as the UK, creating rivalries rather than building solidarities amongst those who 'have little' and drawing attention away from greater inequalities. Copyright © 2013 Cambridge University Press. DA - 2013/07/01/ PY - 2013 DO - 10.1017/S0047279413000056 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 42 IS - 3 SP - 567 EP - 585 J2 - Journal of Social Policy LA - eng SN - 0047-2794 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84878432335&doi=10.1017%2fS0047279413000056&partnerID=40&md5=cc9670ae244c95f22db474f943f4b758 AN - WOS:000319840200008 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - Government policy KW - Political psychology KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Public welfare KW - Human rights KW - psychology KW - Race KW - United Kingdom KW - Psychology KW - Emotions KW - Thematic analysis KW - Socioeconomic factors KW - Conceptual structures KW - Focus groups KW - Social skills KW - Theory KW - Video recording KW - welfare provision KW - party politics KW - election KW - voting behavior ER - TY - JOUR TI - Talking active citizenship: Framing welfare state reform in England and the Netherlands AU - Verhoeven, I. AU - Tonkens, E. T2 - Social Policy and Society AB - This article reviews how activation policies frame citizens as individual welfare agents. The analysis focuses on the framing of feeling rules employed by governments that encourage active citizenship, in this instance in the Netherlands and England. In England, encouraging voluntarism is central to the Big Society agenda; in the Netherlands, it is at the heart of the 2007 Social Support Act and more recent ideas on citizenship. Governments cannot compel their citizens to volunteer their time; they can, however, try to seduce people by playing on their emotions. Based on an analysis of thirty-nine policy documents and political speeches, we find that English politicians employ 'empowerment talk' calculated to trigger positive feelings about being active citizens, while Dutch politicians employ 'responsibility talk' conveying negative feelings about failure to participate more actively in society. Responsibility talk runs the risk that citizens respond with counter-responsibility claims, whereas empowerment talk can fail to incite sufficient enthousiasm among citizens. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1017/S1474746413000158 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 415 EP - 426 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894220334&doi=10.1017%2fS1474746413000158&partnerID=40&md5=78927233ae62845589ba20ca51bb80dc DB - Scopus ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Jaws Effect: How movie narratives are used to influence policy responses to shark bites in Western Australia AU - Neff, C. T2 - Australian Journal of Political Science AB - This article examines the way political actors use film narratives to influence policymaking following shark bites. To analyse these relationships I propose the concept of the Jaws Effect, where film-based historical analogies are used as a political device to frame real-life events in ways that make the events governable and prejudice certain policy options. Three elements of the Jaws Effect are reviewed including the intentionality of the shark, perception that these events are fatal and the belief that ‘the shark’ must be killed. These elements are applied to a case study of policy responses to shark bite episodes in Western Australia in 2000, 2003, 2011 and 2014. The reasons why this political device may not always work are also suggested. © 2014, Australian Political Studies Association. DA - 2015/01/02/ PY - 2015 DO - 10.1080/10361146.2014.989385 VL - 50 IS - 1 SP - 114 EP - 127 SN - 1036-1146 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84925137433&doi=10.1080%2f10361146.2014.989385&partnerID=40&md5=e69ce537ee032c7fe0d4e841a7305ee6 AN - WOS:000350976500010 DB - Scopus KW - public policy KW - emotion KW - Western Australia KW - film KW - Jaws Effect KW - shark bite ER - TY - JOUR TI - The role of emotions in discriminatory ethno-religious politics: An experimental study of anti-muslim politics in the United States AU - Grillo, M.C. T2 - Politics, Religion and Ideology AB - There is consensus among scholars of ethno-religious conflict that elites play a pivotal role in either starting or exacerbating intergroup conflicts by evoking negative emotions such as fear, resentment, anger, and rage in the masses. However, scholars have long based these assertions on evidence from elite actions alone. Moreover, despite insights from research on nationalism about the role that positive emotions play in the process of mobilization, current research on ethno-religious conflict has focused exclusively on negative emotions. The current study addresses these gaps. Building upon symbolic politics theory and psychological theories of transformational leadership, I posit that to gain support for aggressive policies against rival groups, leaders must simultaneously evoke negative emotions associated with dislike for the rival group and positive emotions such as confidence, pride, optimism, and feeling energized. I tested this theory with an experiment that randomly exposed participants to different anti-Muslim appeals that culminated in the proposal of an array of discriminatory policies. The results suggest a causal chain. Upon hearing any anti-Muslim frame, those already holding negative attitudes about Muslims were more likely to view Muslims as a threat and experience a positive emotional response, which then led to support for discriminatory policies against Muslims. These findings suggest the way nationalist appeals are framed are much less important than pre-existing attitudes. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. DA - 2014/// PY - 2014 DO - 10.1080/21567689.2014.959504 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 583 EP - 603 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85037706753&doi=10.1080%2f21567689.2014.959504&partnerID=40&md5=9f855b209535ae7af86d14c5b5690fed DB - Scopus ER - TY - JOUR TI - Transnationalism, emotion and second-generation social mobility in the Filipino-Canadian diaspora AU - Kelly, P.F. T2 - Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography AB - Through the case of Filipino-Canadian youth experiences, this paper examines socio-economic mobility among the children of immigrants in the context of transnational social fields and emotional engagements with the diasporic homeland. The Filipino-Canadian experience is distinctive in terms of immigration patterns, settlement trajectories, policy frameworks and the historical and contemporary construction of ethno-racial identities. Using educational attainment as a proxy for a wider process of social mobility, the paper shows that outcomes among Filipino youth have been anomalously poor. The explanations for this situation are multiple, but this paper draws particular attention to the ways in which negative emotional engagements with the Philippines as a diasporic homeland may shape self-esteem and aspirations among Filipino youth in Canada and thereby play a role in social mobility. © 2015 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. DA - 2015/11// PY - 2015 DO - 10.1111/sjtg.12115 VL - 36 IS - 3 SP - 280 EP - 299 SN - 0129-7619 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945475510&doi=10.1111%2fsjtg.12115&partnerID=40&md5=cbbcb5ab921766331ca98ecc9abd1cb7 AN - WOS:000363752000001 DB - Scopus KW - Canada KW - immigration KW - Transnationalism KW - Immigration KW - diaspora KW - ethnic group KW - Philippines KW - young population KW - social mobility KW - nationalism KW - Emotion KW - identity construction KW - educational attainment KW - Filipino KW - Second generation ER - TY - JOUR TI - Trauma-Informed Social Policy: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Analysis and Advocacy. AU - Bowen, E.A. AU - Murshid, N.S. T2 - American Journal of Public Health AB - Trauma-informed care is a service provision model used across a range of practice settings. Drawing on an extensive body of research on trauma (broadly defined as experiences that produce enduring emotional pain and distress) and health outcomes, we have argued that the principles of trauma-informed care can be extended to social policy. Citing a variety of health-related policy examples, we have described how policy can better reflect 6 core principles of trauma-informed care: safety, trustworthiness and transparency, collaboration, empowerment, choice, and intersectionality. This framework conveys a politicized understanding of trauma, reflecting the reality that trauma and its effects are not equally distributed, and offers a pathway for public health professionals to disrupt trauma-driven health disparities through policy action. DA - 2016/02/01/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302970 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 106 IS - 2 SP - 223 EP - 229 J2 - American Journal of Public Health LA - eng SN - 0090-0036 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955584637&doi=10.2105%2fAJPH.2015.302970&partnerID=40&md5=1ca3cd7fa22f2435bcaadecf9c3e7fc9 AN - WOS:000373429000019 DB - Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection KW - Policy Making KW - policy KW - behavior KW - decision making KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - socioeconomics KW - Government policy KW - Humans KW - Social policy KW - management KW - human KW - empowerment KW - Public Policy KW - Psychology KW - Safety KW - safety KW - Self-efficacy KW - human diseases KW - man KW - health care KW - health policy KW - mental stress KW - trauma KW - Healthcare Disparities KW - health inequalities KW - Trust KW - Mental health KW - Health equity KW - Health policy KW - Wounds & injuries KW - Patient advocacy KW - cooperation KW - social policy KW - consumer advocacy KW - Power (Psychology) KW - health care disparity KW - injury KW - Wounds and Injuries KW - Consumer Advocacy ER - TY - JOUR TI - THE POLITICS OF EMPATHY: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND VICTIM REPERTOIRES. AU - Dunn, J.L. T2 - Sociological Focus AB - I draw from the sociology of social problems, social movements, and emotions to consider the articulation of cultural resonance and feeling rules in the framing of victims by social movement activists. I theorize that “political empathy.” expressed in policy and through collective identification, is related to social evaluations, attributions of agency, normative emotional responses, and frame resonance. Frames appealing to broad audiences and inspiring collective identification may depend on victim typifications that negotiate widely shared values and sometimes conflicting emotional standards. In some cases, this negotiation can be accomplished through reframing, or shifting movement representations of victimization. To illustrate, I briefly discuss the increasing popularity of “survivor” imagery in scholarly characterizations of and discourse on battered women, concluding with suggestions for further theorizing and research. © 2004 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. DA - 2004/08/01/ PY - 2004 DO - 10.1080/00380237.2004.10571244 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 37 IS - 3 SP - 235 EP - 250 J2 - Sociological Focus LA - eng SN - 0038-0237 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33750595564&doi=10.1080%2f00380237.2004.10571244&partnerID=40&md5=e66b547fbe25bbf2290fad3ebeb77dd4 AN - 14690367 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - Social movements KW - Social psychology KW - Cognition KW - Social perception KW - Attribution (Social psychology) KW - Gestalt psychology ER - TY - JOUR TI - Framing Persuasive Appeals: Episodic and Thematic Framing, Emotional Response, and Policy Opinion. AU - Gross, K. T2 - Political Psychology AB - Those seeking to frame political issues to their advantage recognize the power of emotional appeals. Yet the study of framing has focused mainly on the cognitive effects of framing rather than on its emotional effects. This study presents the results of two experiments designed to explore the effect of episodic and thematic framing on emotional response and policy opinion. Participants were randomly assigned to read a column arguing against mandatory minimum sentencing that employed either a thematic or one of two episodic frames featuring a woman who received a harsh sentence under the policy. Episodic framing was more emotionally engaging. Furthermore, the specific emotions elicited by the episodic frame - sympathy and pity for the woman featured in the column - were associated with increased opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing. Yet the thematic frame was actually more persuasive once this indirect effect of frame on emotional response was taken into account. The results are consistent with the conclusion that framing effects on policy opinion operate through both affective and cognitive channels. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed. © 2008 International Society of Political Psychology. DA - 2008/04/01/ PY - 2008 DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00622.x DP - EBSCOhost VL - 29 IS - 2 SP - 169 EP - 192 J2 - Political Psychology LA - English SN - 0162-895X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-40249085942&doi=10.1111%2fj.1467-9221.2008.00622.x&partnerID=40&md5=a2142be211d3fffe449dc039ddc123f7 AN - WOS:000253636900003 DB - Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection KW - Political science KW - Political psychology KW - Public opinion KW - Policy analysis KW - Episodic/thematic-framing KW - Experimental-analysis KW - Policy-opinion KW - Emotional conditioning KW - Criminal sentencing KW - Emotion KW - Episodic framing KW - Mandatory minimum sentences KW - Mandatory minimum sentencing ER - TY - JOUR TI - Metaphor at work in the analysis of political discourse: investigating a 'preventive war' persuasion strategy. AU - Ferrari, F. T2 - Discourse and Society AB - The crucial historical moment represented by post 9/11 may undoubtedly be considered responsible for the subsequent hardening of American political rhetoric. And yet, the sudden increase of consensus catalysed by George W. Bush and the consequences of his international policy bring his modus persuadendi up for discussion. The aim of this article is to present a framework for a metaphor-based critical analysis of persuasion in political discourse. Our object of observation is George W. Bush's public speeches to the nation (2001-4). More specifically, the analysis is focused on the persuasion strategy enacted to promote the preventive war in Iraq. In our approach, conceptual metaphor as related to emotion constitutes the fundamental argumentative feature and crucial tool to address the matter of persuasion in text, contributing to identifying both the ideological root and the persuasive strategy of a given discourse in the long run. Synthesis of our results shows the potentialities of metaphor as a privileged cognitive tool for abstracting and constructing discourse strategies. Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications. DA - 2007/09/01/ PY - 2007 DO - 10.1177/0957926507079737 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 18 IS - 5 SP - 603 EP - 625 J2 - Discourse & Society LA - eng SN - 0957-9265 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34548776389&doi=10.1177%2f0957926507079737&partnerID=40&md5=7d7d82b2437db6e5bc874f41acb5ab75 AN - WOS:000250625000004 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - International relations KW - United States KW - Iraq KW - Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Metaphor KW - Persuasion (Psychology) KW - Discourse theory (Communication) KW - Persuasion KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Speeches, addresses, etc. KW - Emotion KW - Fear strategy manipulation KW - Political discourse KW - Security discourse ER - TY - JOUR TI - Sore Losers: News Frames, Policy Debates, and Emotions. AU - Gross, K. AU - Brewer, P.R. T2 - Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics AB - This study examined whether news framing of policy debates shapes audience members' emotions. An experiment revolving around the issue of campaign finance reform tested the effects of conflict and substance coverage on anger and disgust among participants. Conflict coverage produced a conditional effect on these emotions, whereas substance coverage did not. Specifically, the extent to which conflict coverage provoked anger and disgust increased with prior support for the losing side of the debate (in this case, the pro-campaign finance reform side). Such effects may carry implications for political journalism and democratic politics. © 2007 by the President and the Fellows of Harvard College. DA - 2007/01/01/ PY - 2007 DO - 10.1177/1081180X06297231 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 122 EP - 133 J2 - Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics LA - eng SN - 1081-180X UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33846555664&doi=10.1177%2f1081180X06297231&partnerID=40&md5=2c11e5aeb4503b30f5e6597f9409b0e0 AN - 23995790 DB - Business Source Ultimate KW - Political science KW - Democracy KW - Emotions KW - Practical politics KW - Journalism KW - Political Organizations KW - Mass media KW - Debate KW - Broadcasting industry KW - Campaign funds KW - Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing KW - Campaign finance reform KW - News frames KW - Policy debates ER - TY - JOUR TI - The emotions of racialization: Examining the intersection of emotion, race, and landscape through public housing in the United States AU - Hostetter, E. T2 - GeoJournal AB - This paper analyzes racialization-the social construction of 'race' as a normative dimension of everyday life-and shows that emotion plays a central role in this process. My focus is the representation of post-World War II public housing, a key site of white-black racialization in the United States. Representations of filth, decay, and danger separate African-Americans from mainstream, white society as disturbingly different. I argue that this particular representation carries heavy emotional value, specifically that of disgust and fear. It is disgust and fear that racializes this landscape, giving meaning and force to an ideology that views African-Americans as inherently inferior to whites. Policy is framed by these emotions, impacting decisions made about public housing. I explore these ideas through contemporary representations of public housing by federal officials in Washington, DC and by newspapers in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as the federal program HOPE VI. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. DA - 2010/// PY - 2010 DO - 10.1007/s10708-009-9307-4 VL - 75 IS - 3 SP - 283 EP - 298 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77952498659&doi=10.1007%2fs10708-009-9307-4&partnerID=40&md5=a007519fff5f34779e562c06aff94544 DB - Scopus KW - Housing KW - decision making KW - United States KW - racism KW - North Carolina KW - African American KW - political ideology KW - Washington KW - Public housing KW - landscape planning KW - Emotion KW - housing policy KW - public service KW - Charlotte KW - Landscape KW - Charlotte , North Carolina KW - Federal programs KW - federal system KW - social housing KW - Washington [United States] KW - World war II ER - TY - JOUR TI - Do politicians appeal to discrete emotions? The effect of wind turbine construction on elite discourse. AU - Widmann, Tobias T2 - The Journal of Politics AB - Do political actors appeal to discrete emotions? In this study, I investigated how politicians adapt their emotional rhetoric to increased political conflict over climate change. To do so, I applied a transformer-based machine learning classifier to a large dataset of text data coming from German Members of Parliament (MPs) in order to measure discrete emotional appeals. Relying on staggered difference-in-difference models, I found robust results showing that local constructions of wind turbines cause the strongest opponents of climate change mitigation policies (radical right MPs) to appeal to a specific negative moral emotion. Less robust evidence suggests a similar effect for the strongest proponents (Green MPs), however, appealing to a different discrete emotion. The effects range between 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points per additional wind turbine. These findings indicate the importance of distinct emotional framing in political communication with important implications for societal polarization and healthy political discourse. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) DA - 2025/01/01/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1086/730742 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 87 IS - 1 SP - 335 EP - 346 J2 - The Journal of Politics LA - eng SN - 0022-3816 UR - https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=db7cbf84-1a66-38a7-8986-f13e9e448f51 AN - WOS:001376315200003 DB - APA PsycInfo KW - Communication KW - Politicians KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older) KW - Climate Change KW - European Cultural Groups KW - Moral Emotions ER - TY - JOUR TI - Social distancing as 'Scientization': UK and Irish Policy responses to Covid-19, emotions and touch. AU - Moran, Lisa AU - Green, Lorraine T2 - Irish Journal of Sociology AB - As one key strategy for disease prevention, SD constitutes a discursive response where Covid-19 is framed as a "scientific" problem with scientific solutions. This paper was written in May 2020, approximately two months after the UK and Ireland imposed stringent lock-down measures, including social distancing (SD). Social distancing as "Scientization": UK and Irish Policy responses to Covid-19, emotions and touch. DA - 2021/04/01/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1177/0791603520941455 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 124 EP - 128 J2 - Irish Journal of Sociology LA - eng SN - 0791-6035 UR - https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=812dd134-90bd-3dd3-ac80-b9d4eaf5778a AN - 149690890 DB - SocINDEX with Full Text KW - United Kingdom KW - COVID-19 KW - Emotions KW - Scientific knowledge KW - Social distancing ER - TY - JOUR TI - Mimicking political debate with survey questions: The case of White opinion on affirmative action for Blacks. AU - Kinder, Donald R. AU - Sanders, Lynn M. T2 - Social Cognition AB - 380 respondents to a national election survey were interviewed by telephone on the issue of affirmative action (AFA). Framing the issue as unfair advantage (UA) and not as reverse discrimination produced opinions on AFA among Whites that were more coherent with their views on other race policies; associated more closely with their opinions on policies plausibly but not explicitly implicating race (e.g., welfare); and linked more to negative emotions provoked by preferential treatment. The UA framing also produced opinions among Whites that were more consistent with general political views, more evocative of prejudice and misgivings over equal opportunity, and less evocative of tangible threats that AFA may pose to family and group and of political principles that AFA might violate. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) DA - 1990/03/01/ PY - 1990 DO - 10.1521/soco.1990.8.1.73 DP - EBSCOhost VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 73 EP - 103 J2 - Social Cognition LA - eng UR - https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=4404fa8e-0670-374f-8bdd-2c487448e266 AN - 1990-28131-001 DB - APA PsycInfo KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older) KW - Adult Attitudes KW - Affirmative Action KW - Racial and Ethnic Differences KW - White People ER - TY - JOUR TI - Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-19 AU - Valenzuela, S AU - Bachmann, I AU - Mujica, C AU - Grassau, D AU - Labarca, C AU - Halpern, D AU - Puente, S T2 - DIGITAL JOURNALISM AB - The tension between health and economic considerations regarding COVID-19 has resulted in a framing contest, in which proponents and adversaries of strong containment measures hold oppositional frames about the pandemic. This study examines the effects of competing news frames on social media users' policy preferences and the moderation of framing effects played by melodramatic news treatment. Results from a pre-registered online survey experiment in Chile (N= 518) show that participants exposed to Facebook posts with an economic frame were significantly less supportive of measures that restrict mobility (e.g., quarantines) than participants in the control group. Contrary to expectations, exposure to a public health frame also reduced support for stay-at-home orders, and the presence of melodramatic features had no significant impact on users' preferences. Other variables, however, did alter these framing effects, such as fear of COVID-19 and frequency of social media news use. These findings paint a rather complex picture of framing effects during the pandemic in a digital media environment. DA - 2021/10/21/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1943479 VL - 9 IS - 9 SP - 1296 EP - 1315 SN - 2167-0811 AN - WOS:000697667000001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotions and Political Narratives: Populism, Trump and Trade AU - Skonieczny, A T2 - POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE AB - In 2016, a wave of American populism triggered emotional reactions to issues like trade and immigration, and dramatically impacted the Obama administration's plans to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during President Obama's final year in office. This article asks how do emotions infuse populism with political power, and why was populism effective in sparking American economic nationalism and retreat from free trade during the 2016 presidential campaign? Drawing on a psychoanalytic, narrative framework, the article argues that populist narratives deployed by US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders characterized the American economy as a story of the people versus corrupt elites offering greater audience resonance that ultimately derailed President Obama's plan to pass the TPP and ushered in an era of economic nationalism under President Trump. The article contributes to the literature on emotions and foreign policy and explores the under-studied emotional features of populism as a discursive narrative. DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DO - 10.17645/pag.v6i4.1574 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 62 EP - 72 SN - 2183-2463 AN - WOS:000454528400003 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Presidential stories of fear: Focusing congressional climate change mitigation attention in the United States AU - Peterson, HL AU - Zanocco, C T2 - REVIEW OF POLICY RESEARCH AB - Do presidential climate change narratives increase related congressional attention in the United States? Narrative theory says since narratives leverage cognitive heuristics, they should focus policy-making attention in institutions more efficiently than non-narrative statements. This study identifies and tests climate change statements and narratives, including those focused on solutions, or "stories of hope," and those focused on problems and victims, "stories of fear," for relationships with congressional attention using time series analysis. Findings suggest a relationship between narrative and hearings, but not for non-narrative statements and hearings. Furthermore, while narratives are related to hearings generally, stories of fear have larger effects, but only in conditions of single party control of the US Presidency and Congress. This analysis supports theory about narratives and institutional influence and offers the additional concept of stories of fear and hope as impactful on political institutions. DA - 2024/07// PY - 2024 DO - 10.1111/ropr.12557 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 561 EP - 586 SN - 1541-132X AN - WOS:001001497000001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Emotions and policy change in the wake of political scandals: How did the Qatargate shake the European Parliament? AU - Salgado, RS AU - Gürkan, S T2 - EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS AB - While there is an increasing interest in the role of emotions in policy studies, not much is known about how emotions unfold in one of the most emotional situations that can be encountered in politics: political scandals. To investigate how the discursive articulation of emotions shapes the policy responses to political misconduct from a constructivist perspective, this article delves into one of the most shocking corruption scandals hitting the European Union (EU) institutions in decades: the money-for-influence scandal, also popularly known as Qatargate. The article shows which emotions the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) expressed in the wake of the scandal and how the discursive articulation of these emotions shaped their policy responses regarding transparency and accountability. This article combines the analysis of 28 EP plenary debates with interviews with six MEPs and high-level EU officials. DA - 2025/03/18/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1002/epa2.70001 SN - 2380-6567 AN - WOS:001447061300001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Shaping public support for nudge-based decarbonization policies through policy narrative: The role of victim type, victim number and narrativity AU - Liu, ZY AU - Lei, YQ T2 - JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION AB - Nudge-based decarbonization policies possess significant potential to foster low-carbon lifestyles and contribute to the mitigation of climate change. However, securing public support for such policies is a complex endeavor. The pivotal role of policy narratives in molding public perceptions and garnering support underscores the necessity for a strategic approach in the crafting and deployment of these narratives to strengthen public endorsement of nudge-based decarbonization strategies. This study examines the influence of victim framing on the potency of policy narratives to bolster public support for nudge-based decarbonization policies. The study elucidates that narratives portraying climate change victims as humans rather than wildlife more effectively bolster support for policies. Furthermore, policy narratives featuring a lesser number of victims prove more efficacious in augmenting support for these policies. Moreover, the relationship between the number of victims and the narrative's impact on policy support transitions from negative to positive in the context of high narrativity. These disparities in narrative effectiveness can be attributed to their varying abilities to evoke compassion. These insights offer valuable guidance for enhancing public support for nudge-based decarbonization policies, highlighting the strategic use of policy narrative as a key tool in policy promotion. DA - 2024/04/10/ PY - 2024 DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141797 VL - 449 SN - 0959-6526 AN - WOS:001216305900001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy AU - Remling, E T2 - ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE AB - Critical adaptation research has documented how climate change adaptation responses largely tend to maintain rather than change the status quo. Building and expanding on these literatures, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, specifically its notion of political fantasy, to explore further how these prevalent techno-managerial approaches to adaptation operate and what it might be that makes them seem appealing. Based on an exploratory, qualitative analysis of how affect (emotions) and fantasy are at play in the German government discourse on adaptation, the article discerns four specific forms that fantasy takes in official documents: (1) fantasies of control and preparedness, (2) fantasies of objectivity and reason, (3) fantasies of a shared sense of place, and (4) fantasies about 'the good life'. These support the common narrative for how to adapt to climate change in the German context - primarily in a way that does not challenge or change the social order. The findings show that German adaptation policy is sustained and legitimised by fantasmatic elements that seek to speak to a-rational desires and provide important affective anchor points for collective identification, especially those evoking a shared sense of place. In other words, the German adaptation policy discourse is not constructed only at the level of rational argumentation, but very much so on the level of affect. In demonstrating this, the article makes the case for placing political fantasy into the analytical and theoretical vocabulary within critical adaptation research. DA - 2023/06// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1177/23996544231154368 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 714 EP - 734 SN - 2399-6544 AN - WOS:000920362200001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The influence of chronic and temporary accessibility on trust and policy support AU - Cha, H AU - Yang, J AU - Kim, SJ T2 - JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH AB - Food is very closely related to our everyday life and consumers are intolerable to food risk. The impact of media report on food risk perception has been addressed but more elaborated approach on consumers' cognitive process of food risk perception via media is needed. Theoretically guided by accessibility theory, we examined the relationship between consumers' perception of food risk (i.e. food schema), media use, media frame, trust, and policy support. Furthermore, anger was employed as a mediating variable influencing on trust and policy support. Results found that the level of media use had a significant positive effect on trust and policy support. Among the media frames, the government responsibility frame and corporate responsibility frame were shown to be negative predictors for trust and policy support. As for the food schema, checking schema was the most influential negative factor on trust and policy support. Anger was found to exert a negative effect on trust and policy support but this effect decreased if the level of trust was high. In terms of the relationship between media frames and the food schema on anger, most food schema reduced the strong positive effects of the media frame on anger. This means peoples' anger induced by media frames can be diminished by individuals' specific food schema. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed. DA - 2020/01/02/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1080/13669877.2018.1547784 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 117 EP - 138 SN - 1366-9877 AN - WOS:000509174800009 ER - TY - JOUR TI - When Are Loss Frames More Effective in Climate Change Communication? An Application of Fear Appeal Theory AU - Armbruster, ST AU - Manchanda, RV AU - Vo, N T2 - SUSTAINABILITY AB - This study investigated how goal frames (gain, non-loss, loss) either with or without efficacy statements affect consumers' support for climate-change policy. Addressing the goal-framing literature's difficulty in establishing a guiding theory with consistent findings, we (1) propose fear appeal theory as an alternative framework to guide goal-framing research; (2) test five fear appeal variables (fear, perceived threat, hope, perceived efficacy, and message processing) as mediators of goal-framing effects on policy support; and (3) highlight four common goal-framing confounds that may partly underlie the literature's inconsistent findings. Aligning with fear appeal theory, results from a carefully controlled experiment revealed that a more threatening loss frame paired with an efficacy statement produced the strongest pro-policy attitudes and the greatest willingness-to-pay by successfully balancing fear/threat with hope/efficacy and by producing deeper message processing. DA - 2022/06// PY - 2022 DO - 10.3390/su14127411 VL - 14 IS - 12 SN - 2071-1050 AN - WOS:000816791800001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Political Claimsmaking and Emotional Expression AU - Rohlinger, D AU - Vaccaro, C AU - Mckernan, B AU - Ramos, MC T2 - SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY AB - Research on emotional stimuli in politics often overlooks how citizens use emotion when engaging politicians. We begin to address this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between frames, emotion, and sentiment in individual claimsmaking. Our analysis proceeds in two steps. First, we use Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to classify sentiment and frames in 153,288 emails sent to Governor Jeb Bush about the Terri Schiavo case. We find that the religious frame increases the likelihood that an email is positive, while the legal and medical frames lower that likelihood. Then, we qualitatively analyze 999 randomly chosen emails from the corpus to understand how individuals use emotions in their claimsmaking. We find that individuals use emotion to modify frames in ways that signal their understanding of a target's authority relative to other actors. Individuals used positive emotions with the religious frame to signal their approval of Bush's actions. In contrast, individuals used negative emotions with the legal frame to convey their disapproval of other actors, such as Terri's husband, who were seen as misusing their authority and endangering Terri's life. We conclude with a discussion of how scholars might better understand the role of emotion in individual claimsmaking. DA - 2025/03/28/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1080/00380253.2025.2479520 SN - 0038-0253 AN - WOS:001454264900001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Analysing emotional discourse among allies and opponents in the news media AU - Fullerton, AH AU - Gabehart, KM AU - Yordy, J AU - Weible, CM T2 - EMOTIONS AND SOCIETY AB - The sociology of emotions reveals how emotion contributes to and helps inform social and political issues. This study contributes to the literature by examining how competing advocacy coalitions ascribe emotions to their allies and opponents in the politically contentious issue of siting a gas pipeline project in the US. It analyses the emotional and belief expressions of people engaged in the debate in approximately 370 newspaper articles. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework as a theoretical guide, people's position on the pipeline and assignment to one of two advocacy coalitions coincides with similar emotional expressions. Moreover, allies tend to attribute more positive than negative emotions to other allies and more negative than positive emotions to opponents. This study concludes with a research agenda for furthering the empirical study of emotions in political and social life to understand the use of emotions in contentious politics. DA - 2023/11// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1332/263169021X16893162013622 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 296 EP - 314 SN - 2631-6897 AN - WOS:001057728300001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Half-full or half-empty? Framing of UK-EU relations during the Brexit referendum campaign AU - Coutto, T T2 - JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AB - This article analyses the political construction and politicisation of UK-EU relations by British parliamentarians in Westminster and in the European Parliament (EP) between May 2015 and May 2017. Using computer-assisted content analysis techniques and qualitative analysis of sampled speeches, we investigate how parties used frames and emotions in order to mobilise voters. Results indicate that the 'Leave' campaign succeeded in triggering sentiments of distrust and anger against the establishment and mobilizing voters while, economic arguments used by 'remainers' failed to convince citizens from deprived areas of the benefits of EU membership. Intra-party divisions were stronger among Westminster members than in the EP, but the visibility of the 'Leave' discourse in the EP was disproportionately higher to the number of pro-Brexit parliamentarians. Polarisation and values-based arguments are observed in the EP early in the campaign, suggesting that the process initiated at the European level and then migrated to the national level. DA - 2020/07/03/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1080/07036337.2020.1792465 VL - 42 IS - 5 SP - 695 EP - 713 SN - 0703-6337 AN - WOS:000567304200006 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Human Rights Violations, Moral Emotions, and Moral Disengagement: How States use Moral Disengagement to Justify their Human Rights Abuses AU - Luongo, B T2 - JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE AB - States often use strategic messaging in order to defend their human rights violations. Such messaging often relies on promoting exclusionary ideologies or referencing national security doctrines in order to justify a breach of human rights. Less understood, however, are the specific mechanisms that makes such justifications so effective, especially when they aim to excuse unthinkable human rights atrocities. This is important to understand in order to prevent states from relying on these strategies and to hold them accountable when they violate human rights. To address this, the article demonstrates the role that emotion plays in the politics of human rights. Specifically, the article argues that states employ emotionally manipulative/deceptive strategies in attempts to either defend or obscure their human rights abuses. It builds on recent research in both the political and psychological sciences that evidence the role that emotion plays in issues of morality, rights, and justice. Research in this area refers to 'moral emotions' which are implicated in informing and communicating moral judgements, as well as motivating moral behaviour. This article argues that states effectively work to manipulate, or 'disengage', those emotional processes involved in moral judgements in attempts to reconstrue their human rights abuses as morally acceptable. In doing so, it advances our understanding as to how human rights violations persist, while also contributing to the literature on human rights theory and the role that emotion plays in the politics of human rights. DA - 2023/08/16/ PY - 2023 DO - 10.1093/jhuman/huad017 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 559 EP - 580 SN - 1757-9619 AN - WOS:001016323700001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Race and Anti-LGBT Legislation: An analysis of "religion freedom" coverage in Mississippi and national newspapers AU - Brown, R AU - Cole, HJ AU - Fisher, M T2 - JOURNALISM STUDIES AB - This content analysis examines Mississippi and national newspaper coverage of House Bill 1523, which was considered harmful to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities in the state. The purpose of this study is to explore how the press, the public, and politicians discussed controversial issues related to LGBT rights and religious freedom legislation. Additionally, it examines how they interjected race into a discussion about the LGBT community. Results show conflict as a dominant news frame, anger as the dominant emotional appeal, and negativity as the primary tone. It also shows that Black elected officials cited as sources primarily discussed economics rather than race or equal rights. DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1292860 VL - 19 IS - 11 SP - 1579 EP - 1596 SN - 1461-670X AN - WOS:000439896100003 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions and Rhetoric in the US: A Multi-Definition and Multi-Method Approach AU - Carson, JV AU - Fisher, D AU - Dierenfeldt, R T2 - JUSTICE QUARTERLY AB - Xenophobic extremism directed towards Asian persons, as operationalized in a multitude of ways, was found to be especially heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The emotion-threat and emboldenment frameworks suggest that such extremism may have been the result of pandemic-related restrictions and rhetoric, which led to an increase in negative emotions directed toward the "outgroup," as further defined by political leaders. Informed by these perspectives, this study examines whether COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and rhetoric affected hate crime in the U.S. Using a multi-definition and multi-method approach, this research finds that both COVID-19 restrictions and rhetoric were related to state-level increases in hate crimes against Asian persons. However, subsequent analyses revealed that individual cities saw both reductions in hate crimes and null impacts, while quarterly analyses were unable to replicate findings that were observable using monthly data. This suite of results highlights the need for a triangulation strategy when examining questions related to hate crime. DA - 2025/04/20/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.1080/07418825.2025.2493119 SN - 0741-8825 AN - WOS:001473088000001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truth-tellers AU - Nordensvard, J AU - Ketola, M T2 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AB - We propose that populism is a storytelling performance that involves a charismatic 'truth-teller' and a populist narrative frame. Populist narratives are sensemaking devices that guide people in areas of contestation, uncertainty and complexity where decisions cannot solely rely on rational and formal processes. Populist 'truth-tellers' apply a particular narrative frame that pits 'people' against the 'elite' when interpreting complex problems such as climate change. The aim of this article is one of theory generating, using the cases of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg to illustrate the idea of populism as storytelling. While their climate change stories are very different, both share an approach that relies on the 'truth-telling' character of their hero, applying the same populist narrative frame. These findings add to our understanding of the role emotions and conflicts play in the struggles to make sense of climate change based on particular interests or political agendas. DA - 2022/07/29/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1080/09644016.2021.1996818 VL - 31 IS - 5 SP - 861 EP - 882 SN - 0964-4016 AN - WOS:000713472800001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Treatment gap and mental health service use among Syrian refugees in Sultanbeyli, Istanbul: a cross-sectional survey AU - Fuhr, DC AU - Acarturk, C AU - McGrath, M AU - Ilkkursun, Z AU - Sondorp, E AU - Sijbrandij, M AU - Ventevogel, P AU - Cuijpers, P AU - McKee, M AU - Roberts, B T2 - EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCES AB - Aims. Syrian refugees may have increased mental health needs due to the frequent exposure to potentially traumatic events and violence experienced during the flight from their home country, breakdown of supportive social networks and daily life stressors related to refugee life. The aim of this study is to report evidence on mental health needs and access to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) among Syrians refugees living in Sultanbeyli-Istanbul, Turkey. Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Syrian refugees aged 18 years or over in Sultanbeyli between February and May 2018. We used random sampling to select respondents by using the registration system of the municipality. Data among 1678 Syrian refugees were collected on mental health outcomes using the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist (PCL-5) and the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-25) for depression and anxiety. We also collected data on health care utilisation, barriers to seeking and continuing care as well as knowledge and attitudes towards mental health. Descriptive analyses were used. Results. The estimated prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, depression and anxiety was 19.6, 34.7 and 36.1%, respectively. In total, 249 respondents (15%) screened positive for either PTSD, depression or anxiety in our survey and self-reported emotional/behavioural problems since arriving in Sultanbeyli. The treatment gap (the proportion of these 249 people who did not seek care) was 89% for PTSD, 90% for anxiety and 88% for depression. Several structural and attitudinal barriers for not seeking care were reported, including the cost of mental health care, the belief that time would improve symptoms, fear of being stigmatised and lack of knowledge on where and how to get help. Some negative attitudes towards people with mental health problems were reported by respondents. Conclusions. Syrian refugees hardly access MHPSS services despite high mental health needs, and despite formally having access to the public mental health system in Turkey. To overcome the treatment gap, MHPSS programmes need to be implemented in the community and need to overcome the barriers to seeking care which were identified in this study. Mental health awareness raising activities should be provided in the community alongside the delivery of psychological interventions. This is to increase help-seeking and to tackle negative attitudes towards mental health and people with mental health problems. DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1017/S2045796019000660 VL - 29 SN - 2045-7960 AN - WOS:000585066900045 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Mobilizing Effect of Parties' Moral Rhetoric AU - Jung, JH T2 - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AB - How does parties' use of moral rhetoric affect voter behavior? Prior comparative party research has studied party positions without much attention to how parties explain and justify their positions. Drawing insights from political and moral psychology, I argue that moral rhetoric mobilizes copartisan voters by activating positive emotions about their partisan preference. I expect this to hold among copartisans who are exposed to party rhetoric. To test my argument, I measure moral rhetoric by text-analyzing party manifestos from six English-speaking democracies and measure mobilization using copartisan turnout in survey data. The results support my argument. Furthermore, I find evidence in support of the theoretical mechanism using survey experiments and panel survey data from Britain. The article shows that moral rhetoric is a party campaign frame that has important consequences for voter behavior. DA - 2020/04// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/ajps.12476 VL - 64 IS - 2 SP - 341 EP - 355 SN - 0092-5853 AN - WOS:000493345000001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Pandemic Messaging: Congressional Communication and the Mechanisms of Polarizing Rhetoric AU - Gardner, T AU - Russell, A T2 - CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY-A JOURNAL OF CAPITAL STUDIES AB - U.S. senators are increasingly turning to Twitter to stoke partisan divisions, and it's not just what they say, but rather how they say it. Senators spent the Spring of 2020 responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the tone and framing used to engage a digital constituency was largely dependent on partisan alignment with President Trump. We use senators' Twitter activity during the outbreak to offer new insight into the mechanisms of lawmakers' party polarizing trends in congressional communication. We show that divisions stemmed from senators' sentiment and framing-with Republicans more likely to incorporate positivity into forward-looking steps for economic recovery and Democrats preferring a negative tone to address government failings and inadequate response by President Trump. This article extends the literature on polarizing rhetoric in the Senate by using the pandemic response to illustrate how the dynamics of senators' digital rhetoric, even during a moment of shared crisis, continue to fuel partisanship and polarizing narratives. DA - 2023/09/02/ PY - 2023 DO - 10.1080/07343469.2022.2121449 VL - 50 IS - 3 SP - 257 EP - 290 SN - 0734-3469 AN - WOS:000869529300001 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Three dimensions of COVID-19 risk perceptions and their socioeconomic correlates in the United States: A social media analysis AU - Qiao, S AU - Li, ZL AU - Liang, C AU - Li, XM AU - Rudisill, C T2 - RISK ANALYSIS AB - Social media analysis provides an alternate approach to monitoring and understanding risk perceptions regarding COVID-19 over time. Our current understandings of risk perceptions regarding COVID-19 do not disentangle the three dimensions of risk perceptions (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, and negative emotion) as the pandemic has evolved. Data are also limited regarding the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) on COVID-19-related risk perceptions over time. To address these knowledge gaps, we extracted tweets regarding COVID-19-related risk perceptions and developed indicators for the three dimensions of risk perceptions based on over 502 million geotagged tweets posted by over 4.9 million Twitter users from January 2020 to December 2021 in the United States. We examined correlations between risk perception indicator scores and county-level SDOH. The three dimensions of risk perceptions demonstrate different trajectories. Perceived severity maintained a high level throughout the study period. Perceived susceptibility and negative emotion peaked on March 11, 2020 (COVID-19 declared global pandemic by WHO) and then declined and remained stable at lower levels until increasing once again with the Omicron period. Relative frequency of tweet posts on risk perceptions did not closely follow epidemic trends of COVID-19 (cases, deaths). Users from socioeconomically vulnerable counties showed lower attention to perceived severity and susceptibility of COVID-19 than those from wealthier counties. Examining trends in tweets regarding the multiple dimensions of risk perceptions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic can help policymakers frame in-time, tailored, and appropriate responses to prevent viral spread and encourage preventive behavior uptake in the United States. DA - 2023/06// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1111/risa.13993 VL - 43 IS - 6 SP - 1174 EP - 1186 SN - 0272-4332 AN - WOS:000823701200001 ER -