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Emotion And Public Attention To Political Issues, Michael W. Gruszczynski
Emotion And Public Attention To Political Issues, Michael W. Gruszczynski
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Which mechanisms underlie the orientation of public attention to political issues? Though research on media agenda-setting has been one of the most successful enterprises in political communication and behavior, little is known of the actual processes that drive this phenomenon. I hypothesize that inherent in all environmental stimuli is emotional information, and that it is this information that drives the linkages between media and public agendas. Using a combination of large-scale automated content analyses of several political issues in the New York Times and public search attention data, I demonstrate that negatively-valenced and arousing coverage work concurrently with the volume …