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Emotional response to U.K. political party leader facial displays of affiliation, reward, and ambiguity during Brexit
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Stewart, Patrick A., Lee, Nick, Bucy, Erik P. and Senior, Carl (2023) Emotional response to U.K. political party leader facial displays of affiliation, reward, and ambiguity during Brexit. Social Science Quarterly, 104 (3). pp. 281-298. doi:10.1111/ssqu.13235 ISSN 1540-6237.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13235
Abstract
Objective
On December 12, 2019, the United Kingdom's ruling Conservative Party called an election that put the country's 2016 “Brexit” referendum on leaving the European Union to the test. The divisive campaign and a polarized electorate culminated in large losses by opposition Labour and Liberal Democratic parties. Amid a polarized electorate, lingering questions arise as to whether the election results reflect more upon partisan ties or the respective party leaders' ability to emotionally connect with followers through their nonverbal behavior.
Methods
Using a unique pre-registered design, this study considers the emotional response to leaders of the three major U.K. political parties in the week prior to the December 2019 election by drawing upon a national sample of 546 partisan participants. We examine self-reported happiness, affinity, anger, and distress in response to reward and affiliative smiles as well as ambiguous facial displays in short videos shown without sound featuring Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson and his opponents Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party) and Jo Swinson (Liberal Democratic Party).
Results
The findings of this pre-registered study suggests partisan identity plays a powerful role in empathetic and counter-empathetic responses to leader facial displays generally. Further analysis reveals a more nuanced response to the competing leaders’ facial displays with followers of all three parties responding to the different smiles in distinct manners.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-, Facial expression -- Political aspects, Emotions, Facial expression -- Social aspects, Perception, Leadership -- Psychological aspects, Political leadership, Smiling -- Social aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science Quarterly | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1540-6237 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 104 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 281-298 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ssqu.13235 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Re-use Statement: | ** Article version: VoR ** From Wiley via Jisc Publications Router ** History: received 08-07-2022; rev-recd 30-11-2022; accepted 02-01-2023; pub-electronic 02-02-2023. ** Licence for VoR version of this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2023 The Authors. Social Science Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Southwestern Social Science Association. | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 March 2023 | ||||||||
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