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Fear may contribute to the ideal of informed voting by enhancing detailed processing (Tiedens & Linton, 2001), whereas anger may detract from this ideal by promoting less careful processing and reliance on heuristics (Bodenhausen, Sheppard, & Kramer, 1994). Consistent with this possibility, work in political science (e.g., Marcus, Neuman, & MacKuen, 2000; Valentino et al., 2008) suggests that anxiety (fear) motivates citizens to learn, which may lead them to become better informed voters. … We … test[ed] the prediction that fear would lead participants to use specific issue-based information when choosing a candidate, whereas anger would lead participants to rely on general criteria (e.g., party loyalty). (more; HT Barker)
Yet fear of (thinking about) death seems quite effective at preventing critical thinking. Is fear of death different?
Is Fear Near, Anger Far?
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Exactly so. People are far too vague when talking about emotions, we need to be careful to specify exactly what emotion is being talked about and in exactly which specific context.
For instance is it likely that people are actually angry at politicians they've never personally interacted with? Not really, because anger is fleeting, and triggered by specific context. It's more likely to be *contempt*, which is a different quite distinct emotion.
As for death, it's an abtraction. In so far as you're thinking about it in the abstract, fear is not the emotion you're feeling, because fear is generated by specific causes of death, not death itself. Also fear is social emotion, thought of death the abstraction produces a distinct *intellectual* emotion, not a social one. I'd say its existential *angst*.
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