Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior
Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior
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愤怒、恐惧和回声室：网络行为的情感基础
作者：
Dag Wollebæk;Rune Karlsen;Kari Steen;B. Enjolras
研究表明，愤怒和恐惧等情绪会影响人们的政治行为。然而，很少有研究将情绪与人们如何在网上讨论政治问题和寻求政治信息联系起来。在本文中，我们研究了愤怒和恐惧如何与政治导向的数字行为相关，试图弥合迄今为止政治心理学和数字媒体之间脱节的文献之间的差距。根据调查数据，我们发现愤怒和恐惧与不同的网络行为有关。愤怒的人更有可能与观点相似或相反的人进行辩论。他们还会更频繁地寻找能证实自己观点的信息。相比之下，焦虑的人倾向于寻找与自己观点相矛盾的信息。这些发现重申了现有文献中关于情绪在政治中的作用的预测。因此，我们认为愤怒强化了数字公共领域的回声室动力学和堑壕战动力学，而恐惧抵消了这些动力学。
Emotions, such as anger and fear, have been shown to influence people’s political behavior. However, few studies link emotions specifically to how people debate political issues and seek political information online. In this article, we examine how anger and fear are related to politics-oriented digital behavior, attempting to bridge the gap between the thus far disconnected literature on political psychology and the digital media. Based on survey data, we show that anger and fear are connected to distinct behaviors online. Angry people are more likely to engage in debates with people having both similar and opposing views. They also seek out information confirming their views more frequently. Anxious individuals, by contrast, tend to seek out information contradicting their opinions. These findings reiterate predictions made in the extant literature concerning the role of emotions in politics. Thus, we argue that anger reinforces echo chamber dynamics and trench warfare dynamics in the digital public sphere, while fear counteracts these dynamics.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
J. Lerner;D. Keltner
通讯作者：
J. Lerner;D. Keltner