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3. The Ick Factor: Disgust Sensitivity as a Predictor of Political Attitudes.

Author

Smith, Kevin, Oxley, Douglas, Hibbing, Matthew, Alford, John, and Hibbing, John

Subjects
*POLITICAL attitudes, *POLITICAL socialization, *PUBLIC support, *POLITICAL participation, *HOMOSEXUALITY
Abstract

Traditional explanations of individual-level variation in political attitudes have emphasized events occurring in the immediate political environment but recent research has started to include baseline dispositional variations in biological traits. In this paper, we continue this trend by analyzing the relationship between political issue preferences and physiological responses to disgusting images. Previously published research reports a connection between disgust sensitivity and certain political orientations, such as those pertaining specifically to homosexuality as well as broader collections of “left-right” issues, but has relied only on self-reports of disgust sensitivity. Given that self-reports are often inaccurate, we instead record and analyze involuntary measures of disgust sensitivity; particularly, skin conductance and startle blink EMG response. These long-accepted psycho-physiological measures permit a richer and more meaningful test of the possibility that some issue preferences are at least partially shaped by bedrock physiological orientations to generic rather than overtly political stimuli. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009

4. The Effect of Persuasive Messages on Policy Problem Recognition.

Author

Oxley, Douglas R., Vedlitz, Arnold, and Wood, B. Dan

Subjects
*PERSUASION (Rhetoric), *POLITICAL attitudes, *PUBLIC opinion on global warming, *PUBLIC opinion, *POLITICAL surveys, *BEHAVIORAL research
Abstract

Prior theories of individual behavior in recognizing public problems have centered on the role of policy entrepreneurs; institutional effects; information; and cultural, political, and social pressures. Our extension of these theories suggests that policy problem recognition is an attitudinal evaluation process. If the information is considered valid and the new attitude is negative in valence, then a policy problem is recognized. To test this theory, we use an embedded experiment in a national survey to measure the effect of persuasive messages on the concern for global warming. We find that the negativity of the message and the credibility of the source of the message both affect the level of increase in concern for global warming. Further, the impact of the message from the source is conditional based upon the recipient's ideology. This suggests that policy problem recognition is attitudinal and thus incorporates both analytical and affective components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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