Feeling Politics (PDF)

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

"Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Processing is a timely contribution from a very distinguished group of scholars in the burgeoning field of emotions and politics. The volume reminds us that political reasoning is not simply the outcome of 'cold' calculation concerning one's interests or a simple accumulation of factual information. Rather, the contributors to this volume underscore how emotions can bias citizens' political decision making, harden existing beliefs even in the face of contrary information, heighten attention to political figures and events, worsen information processing and learning, and intensify the impact of political ads. Intellectual synergy is conveyed well by the chapters in this volume, which represent the rich nexus of cross cutting ideas, approaches, and findings characteristic of work on emotions."

- Leonie Huddy, Stony Brook University