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We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced

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We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're politically induced

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Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger

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Political emotions are experienced differently in the body compared to everyday feelings, and the intensity of these embodied emotions predicts higher political participation. doi.org/hb3qbz

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You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

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Researchers have found our emotions toward politics not only play on our minds, but shape how our bodies respond to political experiences, even driving political participation higher.

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Strong endorse, for so many reasons. Two of the reasons are that thinking takes time and creativity takes time. The productivity machine turning everything into a numbers race is bad for the work and bad for the people doing the work.

How we feel political emotions in our bodies—and why this matters for democracy

If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇

you can read the paper open access here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534895123

🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…

A new study reveals that people physically feel political emotions differently than everyday feelings. These unique bodily sensations, like a tense chest, reliably predict whether someone will actually vote, protest, or engage in democracy.

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You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

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FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”