Fear-anger contests: Governmental and populist politics of emotion

In this project, Jörg Friedrichs and a team of researchers apply machine learning and sentiment analysis to social media and other data to investigate the political usages of fear and anger. An article about fear-anger contests in the context of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump has appeared, showing that established and populist actors outbid one another in expressing fear and anger. Populists express more anger, whereas establishment or governmental actors express more fear.

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