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Linking Emotions and Political Attitudes in Discourse: A Computational Analysis of November 2015 Paris Attacks Memories

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The memory of violent events is a category of public action widely mobilized today with the aim of orienting citizens' attitudes and behavior. These memory policies (school programs, museums and memorials, commemorations) generally rely on the transmission of content with a strong emotional charge. Some studies (Bouchat et al., 2016) have shown that these devices can trigger the opposite effect to the one expected (e.g., strengthening pacifist attitudes). A sociological perspective could suggest that differentiated socializations, particularly in terms of affective habits, may also exert an influence on the link between emotion and political attitudes. I propose to study this link based on a corpus of nearly 1000 semi-structured interviews conducted as part of a research program on the memory of the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris. I consider the research program not only as a scientific device but also as a memorial device, which questions and updates the memories and attitudes of volunteers about a past violent event. I measure the semantic emotionality of the narratives and discourses in the corpus using computational text analysis methods (word embeddings). Preliminary results show that the expressed emotionality is correlated (1) with socio-demographic characteristics such as gender and age, (2) with experience, but unexpectedly: emotionality does not necessarily decrease based on experiential distance from the event (participants living in Paris compared to survivors and witnesses). I then plan to explore the interactions between emotionality and the expression of political or moral considerations and lessons, and to examine whether affective habits modulate this relationship.

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Sociologie
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hal-04684559 , version 1 (02-09-2024)

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Charles Payet. Linking Emotions and Political Attitudes in Discourse: A Computational Analysis of November 2015 Paris Attacks Memories. 16th European Sociological Association Conference, Aug 2024, Porto, Portugal. ⟨hal-04684559⟩
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