Data and materials from the journal article: "State anxiety by itself does not change political attitudes: A threat of shock experiment"

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Title:	Data and materials from the journal article: "State anxiety by itself does not change political attitudes: A threat of shock experiment"
Date:	2022
Creator:	Müller, Ulrich W. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0660-9151, Bahnsen, Oke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-2804 and Alpers, Georg W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9896-5158
Divisions:	School of Social Sciences > Klinische u. Biologische Psychologie u. Psychotherapie (Alpers 2010-)

DDC Classification:	150 Psychology
Keywords:	anxiety, political attitudes, political ideology, threat of shock, implicit attitudes, pre-registered experiment
Abstract:	State anxiety by itself does not change political attitudes: A threat of shock experiment" Previous research suggests that state anxiety may sway political attitudes.However, previous experimental procedures induced anxiety using political contexts (e.g., social or economic threat). In a pre-registered laboratory experiment, we set out to examine if anxiety that is unrelated to political contexts can influence political attitudes. We induced anxiety with a threat of shock paradigm, void of any political connotation. Seventy-five participants were instructed that they might receive an electric stimulus during specified threat periods and none during safety periods. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: Political attitudes (implicit and explicit) were assessed under safety in one condition and under threat in the other. Psychometric, as well as physiological data (skin conductance, heart rate), confirmed that anxiety was induced successfully. However, this emotional state did not alter political attitudes. In a Bayesian analytical approach, we confirmed the absence of an effect. Our results suggest that state anxiety by itself does not sway political attitudes. Previously observed effects that were attributed to anxiety may be conditional on a political context of threat.

URL:	https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/404/
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7801/404
Availability (Controlled):	Delivery
Availability:	Send a request to alpers@uni-mannheim.de
DOI (External):	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1006757
Reference URL (External):	https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/ar...

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