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    Anxiety as a Positive Epistemic Emotion in Politics
    (2021) De Brasi, Leandro; Guglielmetti, Florencia; Rosati, Antonia
    People suffer from a variety of cognitive shortcomings when forming and updating their political beliefs. Three pervasive shortcomings are confirmation bias, disconfirmation bias, and motivated reasoning. The emotional state of anxiety can help us overcome these biases given the open-minded, information-rich, reflective deliberation with diverse people it may promote-although mass and social media may hinder this type of deliberation.