Engaging with politics increases feelings of emotional volatility, Brown researchers find

Engaging with politics increases feelings of emotional volatility, Brown researchers find

Previous research has held that engaging with politics causes persistent, negative emotions. But a new study by Brown researchers found that the story might not be so simple - instead, they found engaging with politics lowers emotional well-being by increasing emotional volatility.People engaging with politics "commonly feel emotions like anger and fear and outrage, and those accumulate," said Alexander Walker, a postdoctoral fellow in the Depar…