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      Fear and Anger in Great Britain: Blame Assignment and Emotional Reactions to the Financial Crisis

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      Political Behavior
      Springer US
      Accountability, Anger, Blame assignment, Economic perceptions, Emotional reactions, Fear

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          While we know that emotional reactions are important influences on political behavior, we know far less about the sources of these emotions. This paper studies the causes of fear and anger in reaction to a negative stimulus: the financial crisis. Anger should have been experienced among individuals who believed a specific actor was to blame for the crisis. Moreover, individuals should have been particularly angry if they blamed an actor who should be accountable to them, for example the national government. I test these expectations using a panel survey run in Britain between 2005 and 2010. This data shows that British citizens experienced anger if they held an actor responsible for the crisis. Moreover, they felt particularly angry if they held the Labour government (and to a lesser extent the European Union) responsible. These findings underline the importance of studying the causes of emotional reactions and show how these may be linked to common institutional distinctions between political systems.

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              Anger is an approach-related affect: evidence and implications.

              The authors review a range of evidence concerning the motivational underpinnings of anger as an affect, with particular reference to the relationship between anger and anxiety or fear. The evidence supports the view that anger relates to an appetitive or approach motivational system, whereas anxiety relates to an aversive or avoidance motivational system. This evidence appears to have 2 implications. One implication concerns the nature of anterior cortical asymmetry effects. The evidence suggests that such asymmetry reflects direction of motivational engagement (approach vs. withdrawal) rather than affective valence. The other implication concerns the idea that affects form a purely positive dimension and a purely negative dimension, which reflect the operation of appetitive and aversive motivational systems, respectively. The evidence reviewed does not support that view. The evidence is, however, consistent with a discrete-emotions view (which does not rely on dimensionality) and with an alternative dimensional approach. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.
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                Contributors
                +43-1-4277-49912 , +43-1-42778-49912 , markus.wagner@univie.ac.at
                Journal
                Polit Behav
                Polit Behav
                Political Behavior
                Springer US (Boston )
                0190-9320
                1573-6687
                9 July 2013
                9 July 2013
                2014
                : 36
                : 683-703
                Affiliations
                Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Rathausstrasse 19/1/9, 1010 Vienna, Austria
                Article
                9241
                10.1007/s11109-013-9241-5
                4734452
                26855463
                4eb2ca57-b9ae-49ae-98b7-3b5745cb9320
                © The Author(s) 2013

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.

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                accountability,anger,blame assignment,economic perceptions,emotional reactions,fear

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