Toward a Theory of Political Emotion Causation

Almohammad, Asaad H.

doi:10.1177/2158244016662106

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“…The UN, moreover, highlights a particularly interesting case study because convincing arguments must transcend traditional regional or cultural borders to establish international representations of norms (Shannon et al, 2014). As a result, the general theses of psycholinguistic models emphasize how arguments for a policy are framed, rather than just what tools are used to further a policy (Manstead, 2001); in effect, this framing modifies how individual delegates appraise a policy or context (Almohammad, 2016, pp. 8–15; Jones, 2020, pp.…”

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Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations

Gandall

Chhouk

Wang

et al. 2022

Social Science Computer Review

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In organizational theory, institutionalists generally make predictions of corresponding context and policy outcome based on structural processes. Psychoanalytic theory, in contrast, focuses on the rhetorical framing rather than the environment of a policy for predictive outcomes. This study aims to explore the debate over policy prediction by developing a supervised machine learning model to predict for policy success and context in the United Nations (UN). Through data collected with a python web scraper on all UN meetings in the General Assembly (GA) and Security Council (SC) between 1994 and 2020, we parse motions, policies, and conflict indicators, before passing meeting records through the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) psycholinguistic algorithm. Next, we build 12 different machine learning models to predict for policy passage and context using preprocessed motion and LIWC data; results demonstrate that the psychoanalytic models better predicted for both context and policy outcomes than the institutionalist models, suggesting that the classical political axiom, “actions speak louder than words,” may not be supported by the empirical evidence.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations

Gandall

Chhouk

Wang

et al. 2022

Social Science Computer Review

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“…This develops a feeling of being ineffective, uninformed and helpless in situations such as staff or faculty meetings, team building and institutional identification events and programmes. To address this issue, exposure to the psychodynamics of the educational institution can foster a deeper knowledge and understanding of its dynamics and help acquire the skills to interpret the unconscious behavior of groups, teams and the institution as a whole (Almohammad, 2016).…”

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The Emotional Politics of Educational Leaders in Higher Education Institutions: A Discursive Perspective

Hashmi¹,

Saad²,

Madden³

2018

J.educ.soc.sci

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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are run under a set hierarchy of executive, operative and administrative levels of educational leaders with a prescribed pattern of processes and functions. A variety of diverse tasks with varied complexities are assigned to the educational leaders of all levels which are expected to be completed within the set time frame. Under such situations, the emotions of the educational leaders play an important role in helping them perform their tasks and achieve the set goals. The current study highlights the elements of educational leaders' emotions' interplay in institutional functioning, emotional relationships between educational leaders and colleagues, their struggle for supremacy over colleagues and micro-politics of Educational Leaders' emotions within their institutions. The study encompasses a combination of five sub-themes that highlight dynamics of emotions and the politics at play in educational leaders' lives. These sub themes are based on the unresolved issues in the approaches of Educational Leaders' emotions including the relationships between emotions and rationality, emotional programming and controlling, emotional denial and sublimation, emotional humanism and behaviorism, and the relationship between emotions and leadership styles. The data for this study were collected through 12 structured interviews with educational leaders of public and private sector HEIs of Sindh. The results indicated the significance of micro-politics of educational leaders emotions in HEIs for its effective functioning. Five themes highlighting emotional micro politics of educational leaders emerged from the thematic analysis: (a) rationality versus emotionality (b) perceived and displayed emotional displays (c ) state of emotional denial (d) behaviourist and humanist emotions (e) programmed and controlled emotions. The educational leaders try to maintain a balance between the psychological, social, emotional and political aspects of leadership within HEIs. Their emotions have been marginalized and considered as barriers in the process of effective institutional functioning. Rationality is given a preference over emotionality and its utilization is considered to be a myth. In addition, the research increases knowledge about how Educational Leaders learn to negotiate emotionally intensive situations and use various strategies in the emotional micro-political context of their work within the HEIs.

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“…1 Elfenbein elaborated on the theoretical processes of emotional contagion, 67 while Almohammad discussed in detail the relevance of this problem in politics. 68…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Leader Emotion and Political Attitudesmentioning

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“…1 Elfenbein elaborated on the theoretical processes of emotional contagion, 67 while Almohammad discussed in detail the relevance of this problem in politics. 68 In view of the existing experimental findings, the main challenge facing the theory of emotional contagion consist of explaining under what conditions the emotions expressed by a sender elicit either contagion (empathic reactions) or counter-contagion (counterempathic reactions) among the recipients. 60,62 Contagion means that the recipients share or mimic the emotions displayed by the sender and, moreover, develop positive or negative attitudes toward the sender, depending on the valence of the emotion they were exposed to.…”

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Displays of emotion and citizen support for Merkel and Gysi

Gabriel

Masch

2017

Polit. life sci.

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Emotional appeals have always been an important instrument in the mobilization of political support in modern societies. As found in several experimental studies from the United States, the emotions displayed by leading politicians in their televised public appearances have an impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of the public. Positive emotions such as joy or happiness, pride, and amusement elicit a more positive assessment of politicians, whereas showing negative emotions such as anger or outrage often diminishes the public's support. This transfer of emotions from sender to recipient has been described as "emotional contagion." However, under specific circumstances, emotions expressed by politicians can result in counter-empathic reactions among recipients. To examine the role of emotions between political leaders and the public in an institutional and cultural setting outside the United States, this article presents experimental findings on the impact of emotions expressed by two leading German politicians on the German public. The study used emotional displays by Chancellor Angela Merkel and former parliamentary leader of the Left Party, Gregor Gysi, observing how their assessments by the German public changed in response to these displays. Consistent with existing research, we discovered positive effects on the evaluation of both politicians when they displayed positive emotions. However, the impact of negative emotions is different for Merkel and Gysi and can be described as contagion in the former and counter-contagion in the latter case. Furthermore, we found that individual recognition of the expressed emotions modified the effect they had on the evaluation of some leadership characteristics.

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Toward a Theory of Political Emotion Causation

Cited by 6 publications

References 216 publications

Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations

Predicting Policy: A Psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence in the United Nations

The Emotional Politics of Educational Leaders in Higher Education Institutions: A Discursive Perspective

Displays of emotion and citizen support for Merkel and Gysi

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