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Co-rumination & political action around the 2024 US Presidential Election (Dr. Ana DiGiovanni)

Dr. Ana DiGiovanni (Professor at Montclair State University) visited NYU's Center for Conflict and Cooperation to give a talk on her recent research regarding the relationship between co-rumination and political action in the weeks surrounding the 2024 US presidential election. The abstract for her talk is below: We examined whether co-rumination—repetitive and cyclical discussions about negative feelings, in which individuals attempt to make sense of upsetting events with others—was linked to political action during the 2024 US Presidential Election across two repeated-measures studies. Study 1 capitalized on a 4-wave assessment (N = 861 observations, 306 participants) of the three-months surrounding the election and showed that within-person increases in co-rumination were associated with more political action. Study 2 leveraged a more intensive 28-day daily diary design (N = 4,456 observations, 197 participants), in the two-weeks leading up to and two-weeks after the election. Study 2 demonstrated that on days when individuals talked about social and political issues and co-ruminated more than was typical for them, they engaged in more daily political action behaviors. Importantly, multilevel mediation analysis revealed that the relation between co-rumination and political action was in part explained by increased daily motivation to stay engaged with political issues, offering mechanistic insight into why co-rumination and political action are positively related. Taken together, this work suggests that extensively discussing political events and accompanying negative feelings can be associated with positive behavior, such as increased political action.