ECIN Replication Package for "Political ideology, emotion response, and confirmation bias"

This is data and code accompanying the article. Below is the abstract that summarizes the article.<br><br><b>ABSTRACT</b><br>Motivated reasoning can serve to help resolve emotional
discomfort, which suggests emotion as a likely moderator of such reasoning. This paper addresses a gap in the literature
by examining emotion and confirmation bias in the political domain. Results from two preregistered studies, which
involved over 900 unique participants, document a confirmation bias across distinct
dimensions of belief and preference formation.
Also, ideologically dissonant information significantly worsens
self-reported emotion. With some
exceptions, the evidence generally supports the hypothesis that negative emotion
moderates the strength of the bias, which highlights the importance of emotion response
in understanding and potentially counteracting confirmation bias.