Study 2: Emotion condition and issue partisanship.

<p>Republican identification (x-axis) is negatively associated with partisan blaming of Sarah Palin for fostering a climate of violence that contributed to the Tucson, AZ, shooting (y-axis), and this association tends to be stronger in the anger condition (solid black line) than in the neutral condition (light grey line) and sadness condition (dashed line). Note that slopes are plotted at –1 and +1 SD on Republican Party identification. This corresponds to 1.07 and 5.25 on the scale ranging from 1 = <i>not very strong</i> to 7 = <i>very strong</i> to measure Republican Party identification.