Studies in the database
incipol_agentic_languageExperimental study of how voters respond emotionally to political speeches that violate rhetorical gender norms. Fictional speeches on 12 political themes were each recorded in an agentic and a communal rhetorical style, by a male and a female politician, giving a 2x2 within-subject design. Each participant heard 12 of the 48 clips, three per condition, in random order.The Effects of Fear Appealsincipol_fear_pilotThis was a study carried out as a test-run of the EMOPOL paradigm. Its purpose was to investigate whether the presence of fear appeals in political speeches influences voters' emotions.About EMOPOL
What this is
The International Database of Emotional Responses to Political Communication (EMOPOL) collects psychophysiological and self-report responses of voters to real political communication. Every contributing study follows one shared two-session protocol: an online questionnaire session covering personality, demographics and baseline political beliefs, and a laboratory session in which participants watch or listen to political stimuli while EEG, electrodermal activity, cardiac activity and pupil size are recorded, rating each stimulus immediately afterwards.
This site documents the studies in the database. For each study it lists the stimuli that were used with their transcripts, how the study was run, and every variable in the dataset with its definition.
What this is not
No participant data are published here. Access to the data themselves is granted to academic researchers on the basis of a pre-registered analysis plan. To apply, write to emopol@uantwerpen.be.
How a study is organised
Each study is three tables joined by two identifiers. The participants table has one row per person, keyed by Participant. The clips table has one row per stimulus, keyed by ClipID. The trials table has one row per participant per stimulus, keyed by both, and holds the self-report ratings and the physiological measures derived from each recording. The Variables tab of a study lists every column of the three tables with its definition and unit.
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