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Anceaux, C.J. (2012)

The impact of discrete negative emotions and perception of threat on political tolerance, evidence from the Netherlands

Bachelor thesis | Politicologie (BSc)

The main goal of this article is to find out in what way discrete negative emotions are of influence regarding a person's level of tolerance. To investigate this matter, an experiment among Dutch citizens was conducted to discover the impact of fear, anger and hatred on tolerance attitudes. Besides that, a person's perception of threat may be an important factor in explaining already existing emotions like fear. Because previous literature has pointed out that a person's perception of threat and felt emotions towards a certain group are closely connected, the research in this article will combine findings of threat perception and emotional responses in explaining political tolerance attitudes. The research question for this study is therefore: In what way do discrete negative emotions and perceptions of threat regarding a certain out-group effect a person's level of tolerance towards that out-group.

tolerance emotions hatred anger fear threat perception Israel Netherlands

Tolerance

Emotions

Hatred

Anger

Israel

Netherlands

Author

Anceaux, C.J.

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Supervisors

Tromble, R.K.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en