Metadata

Emotional Reactions to the 2016 General Election Debates

Version
2
Resource Type
Dataset : experimental data
Creator
  • Fridkin, Kim (Arizona State University)
  • Gershon, Sarah Allen (Georgia State University)
Publication Date
2020-05-18
Funding Reference
  • National Science Foundation
    • Award Number: 1650397
Free Keywords
Debates; Emotions; experiment
Description

  • Abstract

    This experimental study examines emotional reactions to the first and third 2016 presidential debates. Employing both pre/post-test questionnaires and facial recognition software, viewers reactions are tracked in real time during the debate and after the debate is over. Measures include, subject demographic characteristics, political attitudes and pre/post-test attitudes towards the candidates, as well as frame-by-frame tracking of emotional reactions during the debates in the experimental conditions.

  • Weighting

    none

  • Technical Information

    Presence of Common Scales: Several Likert-type scales were used.
Temporal Coverage
  • 2016-09-26 / 2016-09-26
    Time Period: Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016--Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016
  • 2016-10-19 / 2016-10-19
    Time Period: Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016--Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016
  • 2016-09-26 / 2016-09-26
    Collection Date(s): Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016--Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016
  • 2016-10-19 / 2016-10-19
    Collection Date(s): Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016--Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016
Geographic Coverage
  • Data collected at universities in the Southwestern and Southeastern US
Sampled Universe
Student sample

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Sampling
The student sample was recruited largely from undergraduate political science courses at the 2 sites. Students were randomly assigned to the experimental and control conditions.
Collection Mode

  • mixed mode;

Availability
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