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	Emotion Appraisal in Politics	Terror Management Experiment
Field	Political Psychology	Political Psychology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2000	1990
Originator	George Marcus, Russell Neuman & Michael MacKuen; Ted Brader	Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski & Sheldon Solomon
Type	Survey/lab experiment	Lab experiment
Seminal source	Marcus, G. E., Neuman, W. R., & MacKuen, M. (2000). Affective intelligence and political judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226504698	Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Rosenblatt, A., Veeder, M., Kirkland, S., & Lyon, D. (1990). Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(2), 308-318.
Aliases	Affective Intelligence Experiment, Political Emotion Appraisal Study, Discrete Emotions Politics Measure	Mortality Salience Experiment, TMT Experiment, Death-Thought Accessibility Study
Related	4	4
Summary	Emotion appraisal in politics studies how distinct emotions, anxiety, anger, enthusiasm, and others, arise from cognitive appraisals of political events and in turn shape attention, information seeking, persuasion, and participation. It combines appraisal theory with affective intelligence theory (Marcus, Neuman and MacKuen, 2000) and Brader's (2006) work on emotional campaign appeals, typically measured through experiments and surveys that elicit and analyze discrete emotional responses.	A terror management experiment tests terror management theory (TMT), which holds that awareness of one's own mortality creates potential anxiety that people manage by defending their cultural worldview and self-esteem. The canonical mortality-salience paradigm (Greenberg et al., 1990) experimentally reminds participants of death and measures increased worldview defense, such as harsher judgments of out-groups and stronger ingroup and political allegiance.