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This project contains materials associated with the following article: Buesing, E. D. (in preparation). The throttling effect: Empathy-driven cognitive displacement as a mechanism of political demobilization. The article proposes the throttling effect, a receiver-side mechanism by which empathy-recruiting narratives automatically claim limited cognitive capacity, displacing co-present consequential but low-arousal information from elaboration. It advances five propositions and four hypotheses, reports a coverage-level analysis of the February 2026 New START treaty expiration window using GDELT data, and outlines a three-study empirical program. The coverage data, analysis scripts, and figure for Section 5.1 are available in the coverage_analysis folder. Study materials for the proposed empirical program will be added upon execution.

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