The generalizability of personality effects in politics

JA Vitriol, EG Larsen… - European Journal of …, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
A burgeoning line of research examining the relation between personality traits and political
variables relies extensively on convenience samples. However, our understanding of the …

The conditions ripe for racial spillover effects

M Tesler - Political Psychology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of research shows that Barack Obama's rise to prominence has further
polarized mass politics by racial attitudes and race—a phenomenon we have described …

Judging the “vapid and hollow charade”: Citizen evaluations and the candor of US Supreme Court nominees

PG Chen, AC Bryan - Political Behavior, 2018‏ - Springer
Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been famously called a “vapid and hollow
charade” by Elena Kagan. Indeed, perceptions of nominees' refusal to answer questions …

Economic anxiety or racial predispositions? Explaining white support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election

EY Riley III, C Peterson - Journal of Race and Policy, 2019‏ - muse.jhu.edu
In this article, we examine the degree to which White support for Donald Trump is driven by
economic anxiety or racial resentment. Given Donald Trump's rhetoric surrounding racial …

Social network disagreement and reasoned candidate preferences

PD Ekstrom, BA Smith, AL Williams… - American Politics …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigates the effects of social network disagreement on candidate preferences.
Although much research has explored the effects of disagreement on political tolerance and …

Unearthing the hidden welfare state: Race, political attitudes, and unforeseen consequences

T Callaghan, A Olson - Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
This paper incorporates the role of race into our understanding of the hidden welfare state
by exploring the implications of racialization of hidden welfare state programs for mass …

Racial resentment, Hurricane Sandy, and the spillover of racial attitudes into evaluations of government organizations

G Sheagley, P Chen, C Farhart - Analyses of Social Issues and …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the relationship between individuals' racial attitudes, exposure to
information cuing them to think about President Obama, and evaluations of the government's …

Meta-cognition and resistance to political persuasion: evidence from a three-wave panel study

JA Vitriol, HG Lavine, E Borgida - Social influence, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
We investigate the temporal course of meta-cognition and resistance processes following
exposure to counter-attitudinal information in the 2012 Presidential election. Using a unique …

Rigid religious faith promotes selective exposure to attitude-congruent political information

J Cragun - Political Behavior, 2022‏ - Springer
When seeking political information, people are motivated to selectively seek information that
is congruent with their prior attitudes. However, some individuals may do so more than …

Obama's economy: conditional racial spillover into evaluations of the economy

P Chen, R Mohanty - International Journal of Public Opinion …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Barack Obama possesses the proverbial “Midas Touch” when it comes to race in American
politics: everything he touches becomes racialized. We demonstrate this phenomenon using …