Putting the affect into affective polarisation

Figures & data

Figure 1. The variance of vote choice explained by Partisan identity (PID), race, religion and social class.

Figure 2. Mean correlation between emotions (anger, hopeful, afraid, and proud) felt towards each party's candidate by party identity and over time.

Figure 3. Frequency of each emotion felt thinking about the 2018 US congressional election by party identity strength and emotion.

Figure 4. Model of concordance and discordance between explicit and implicit measures of affect as theorised by Arceneaux et al. (2024) and applied to affective polarisation.

Arceneaux, K., Bakker, B. N., & Schumacher, G. (2024). Being of one mind: Does alignment in physiological responses and subjective experiences shape political ideology? Political Psychology, 1–44.

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Data availability statement

The data and R-code to reproduce the results reported in Figures 1 and 2 can be found on our OSF page https://osf.io/y4jt7/. The data belonging to Figure 3 can be found here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XI1VKC

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