Replication Data for: Emotions on Our Screens

Replication data for Emotions on Our Screens by Talbot M. Andrews, Lauren P. Olson, & Yanna Krupnikov, forthcoming in the Cambridge Elements series in Politics and Communication. Abstract: While scholars have long considered how political messages makes people feel, changes in the media environment have given people unprecedented access to the expressed emotions of others. Through both contemporary news stories and social media, people now learn how others – often strangers – feel about political events. Do people believe in the sincerity of these expressed emotions? To answer this question, we turn to expressions about one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change. We begin with a theoretic framework of the way people perceive mediated emotional expression. Then, across six pre-registered experiments, we find people are generally skeptical of others’ emotional expression – perceiving emotional posts and quotes less authentic and appropriate than more neutral content. While evaluations vary by platform, our results suggest that emotions online aren’t always taken at face value – complicating the role of these expressed emotions in political communication.

塔尔博特·M·安德鲁斯（Talbot M. Andrews）、劳伦·P·奥尔森（Lauren P. Olson）与扬娜·克鲁普尼科夫（Yanna Krupnikov）合著的《屏幕上的情绪》（Emotions on Our Screens）的复现数据集，该成果即将发表于《政治与传播》剑桥论丛（Cambridge Elements series in Politics and Communication）。摘要：长期以来，学界始终关注政治讯息如何影响民众的情绪体验，而媒体环境的变革令民众得以前所未有地接触到他人所表露的情绪。如今，民众可通过当代新闻报道与社交媒体，获悉他人——往往是陌生人——对政治事件的情绪态度。人们是否会信任这些表露情绪的诚意？为解答这一问题，我们聚焦于当代最紧迫的议题之一：气候变化相关的情绪表达。我们首先构建了民众对媒介化情绪表达的感知理论框架，随后通过六项预先注册的实验发现，民众普遍对他人的情绪表达持怀疑态度——相较于更为中性的内容，情绪类帖文与引述被认为真实性更低、恰当性更差。尽管不同平台的评价存在差异，但我们的研究结果表明，线上情绪并非总能被直接采信，这使得情绪表达在政治传播中的角色变得更为复杂。