Table 1.

Overview of Predictions

#	Prediction
1	Feelings of compassion toward welfare recipients increase support for welfare.
2	Feelings of anger, contempt and disgust towards welfare recipients decrease support for welfare.
3	Feelings of anxiety when thinking about welfare recipients have little or no effect on support for welfare.
4	Feelings of anger, contempt, and disgust to welfare recipients make opinion formation on welfare issues faster.
5	Feelings of compassion for welfare recipients make opinion formation on welfare issues faster.
6	Feelings of anxiety when thinking about welfare recipients do not make opinion formation on welfare issues faster.
7	Ideological predisposition does not influence the speed with which individuals form opinions on welfare issues.
8	Welfare recipients with little motivation to look for work elicit anger.
9	Welfare recipients motivated to look for work elicit compassion.
10	The activation of anger partially mediates the effect of effort cues on support for welfare.
11	The activation of compassion partially mediates the effect of effort cues on support for welfare.
12	Compassion and anger mediate the opinion effects of effort cues independently of political ideology.
13	Cues of effort regulate anger (and compassion) rather than anger-related emotions such as anxiety, contempt, and disgust.
14	Anger and compassion are regulated by cues of effort rather than by effort-related cues of competence.