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Feeling Thermometer Analysis

The feeling thermometer is a survey instrument that asks respondents to rate their warmth or favorability toward a person, group, or institution on a 0-to-100 scale, where 0 is very cold/unfavorable, 100 is very warm/favorable, and 50 is neutral. Introduced in the American National Election Studies in the 1960s, it is the standard measure of political affect, and its analysis underpins candidate evaluation, group affect, and affective-polarization research.

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Feeling Thermometer Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-psychology
  • Wilcox, C., Sigelman, L., & Cook, E. (1989). Some like it hot: Individual differences in responses to group feeling thermometers. Public Opinion Quarterly, 53(2), 246-257. · DOI 10.1086/269505
  • Weisberg, H. F., & Miller, A. H. (1980). Evaluation of the feeling thermometer: A report to the National Election Study Board. NES Technical Report. American National Election Studies. · URL
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