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Jimmink, Laura (2020)

The belief that anger reinforces one’s ideology influencing the motivation to experience anger

Bachelor thesis | Psychologie (BSc)
This study aimed to examine whether the belief that anger reinforces one’s ideology would motivate people to experience anger. This was examined for both leftist and rightist ideology. The participants were instructed to read articles about anger reinforcing leftist or rightist ideology, or an article about why mint tastes cold. These articles served as a manipulation. Afterwards, they were instructed to rank headlines of articles that could induce the emotions anger, fear, or hope and headlines of neutral articles, There was no significant difference in anger preference between the three conditions for either ideology. Investigating whether the belief that anger reinforces one’s ideology will motivate one to experience anger can have implications for the way political campaigns will be designed.
Author
Jimmink, Laura
Faculty
Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Supervisors
Pliskin, R.
ECTS Credits
15
Evaluation
Recommended
Language
en