Christel Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 104061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christel Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-5045-1778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 551 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Authoritarianism and Political Conflict
In this chapter we review recent research on authoritarianism with the goal of addressing major issues of conceptualization, measurement, and political consequences. We highlight a conceptualization of authoritarianism that identifies the desire for social cohesion and defense of ingroup norms as central to the dynamics of authoritarianism. The consequences of authoritarianism—intolerance of dissent, out-group animosity, and support for anti-demo…
Affective Consistency and Sorting
Objective Sorting is often portrayed as a mechanistic response to elite polarization: individuals recognize salient differences between the parties and match their preferences accordingly. Much less is known, however, about the psychological and motivational processes that contribute to it. In particular, how might affective reactions to elites shape convergence among political preferences? Method To explore the relationship between the consisten…
Exploring the Psychological Foundations of Ideological and Social Sorting
Americans are sorting ideologically: Liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: Partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot fully explain variation in sorting. We argue that psychological characteristics ca…
The Characteristics of Interpersonal Networks in Disaster Response
It is well established that discussion networks have meaningful consequences for a variety of sociopolitical attitudes and behavior. In this project, we explore how social structure shapes reactions to disaster; in particular, the 2010 BP oil spill. We address the questions of how networks are relied upon following community‐wide disaster, and to what extent these networks mirror social structures in other domains. To examine these questions, we …
Social Desirability Bias in the 2016 Presidential Election
Partisanship is a stable trait but expressions of partisan preferences can vary according to social context. When particular preferences become socially undesirable, some individuals refrain from expressing them in public, even in relatively anonymous settings such as surveys and polls. In this study, we rely on the psychological trait of self-monitoring to show that Americans who are more likely to adjust their behaviors to comply with social no…
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It
Journal Article The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It Get access The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It by Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2014. 376 pp. $29.95. Christopher Weber Christopher Weber University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
An Effective Approach to the Repeated Cross‐Sectional Design
Repeated cross‐sectional (RCS) designs are distinguishable from true panels and pooled cross‐sectional time series (PCSTS) since cross‐sectional units (e.g., individual survey respondents) appear but once in the data. This poses two serious challenges. First, as with PCSTS, autocorrelation threatens inferences. However, common solutions like differencing and using a lagged dependent variable are not possible with RCS since lags for i cannot be us…
Placing Racial Stereotypes in Context: Social Desirability and the Politics of Racial Hostility
Past research indicates that diversity at the level of larger geographic units (e.g., counties) is linked to white racial hostility. However, research has not addressed whether diverse local contexts may strengthen or weaken the relationship between racial stereotypes and policy attitudes. In a statewide opinion survey, we find that black‐white racial diversity at the zip‐code level strengthens the connection between racial stereotypes and race‐r…
Traits versus Issues: How Female Candidates Shape Coverage of Senate and Gubernatorial Races
As female candidates may face greater challenges in establishing their “qualifications” for office, coverage of their personal traits may be pernicious, because it tends to de-emphasize substantive qualifications. This study focuses on relative amounts of trait and issue coverage of contests with and without women candidates. We find that races with female candidates yield more coverage of traits than male versus male contests and races with fema…
Emotions, Campaigns, and Political Participation
There has been a scarcity of work examining the political consequences of discrete emotions. This article examines the political effects of several emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and enthusiasm. Emotional ads should influence whether voters become politically active. To test this, two experiments were administered. The first examines emotional responses to campaign messages; the second tests whether emotions influence political participation. The…
Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences
Scholars have documented numerous examples of how liberals and conservatives differ in considering public policy. Recent work in political psychology has sought to understand these differences by detailing the ways in which liberals and conservatives approach political and social issues. In their moral foundations theory, Haidt and Joseph contend the divisions between liberals and conservatives are rooted in different views of morality. They demo…
Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition
According to moral foundations theory (Haidt & Joseph, 2004), five foundations are central to moral intuition. The two individualizing foundations—harm/care and fairness/reciprocity—hinge on the rights of the individual, whereas the three binding foundations—in‐group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity—focus on communal bonds. Recent work suggests that reliance on the various foundations varies as a function of sociopolitical orientat…
Socially Mediated Internet Surveys: Recruiting Participants for Online Experiments
The Socially Mediated Internet Survey (SMIS) method is a cost-effective technique used to obtain web-based, adult samples for experimental research in political science. SMIS engages central figures in online social networks to help recruit participants among visitors to these websites, yielding sizable samples for experimental research. We present data from six samples collected using the SMIS method and compare them to those gathered by other s…
Courting Christians: How Political Candidates Prime Religious Considerations in Campaign Ads
Religion occupies a central role in American politics. From being an impetus behind numerous political movements, to shaping how political candidates are considered, scholars and pundits alike have emphasized the role of religion for political behavior and attitudes. Yet, there has been a scarcity of empirical work examining the consequences of religious appeals in campaigns. Drawing on recent work that contends views about religious traditionali…
It’s All in the Name: Source Cue Ambiguity and the Persuasive Appeal of Campaign Ads
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors
Journal Article Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors Get access Ashley E. Kirzinger, Ashley E. Kirzinger 1Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA 1Corresponding author: Ashley Elizabeth Kirzinger; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Weber, Christopher Weber 2Department of Political Science and Manship Scho…
Genetics, Personality, and Group Identity
Objective Group identity is a central concept in many social science disciplines. We investigate why people identify with groups and show favoritism to in‐group members. We anticipate group identifications are substantially influenced by genes and social environments, likely working through stable personality traits. Methods Using twin study data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States ( MIDUS I ), we investigate the …
Who Said What? The Effects of Source Cues in Issue Frames
The Political Consequences of Perceived Threat and Felt Insecurity
The authors draw on data from a national random digit dial (RDD) telephone sample of 1,549 adult Americans conducted between October 15, 2001, and March 2, 2002, to explore the impact of a need for security on support for national security policies in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They examine support for protective government policies among individuals who vary in their ability to feel secure in the aftermath of terrorism, explori…
Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief
We examine whether two general dimensions of sociopolitical belief-right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)-are rooted in insecure psychological attachment. Based on an undergraduate sample ( N = 255), we model the relations among attachment styles, general worldviews, RWA, and SDO. A structural equation model indicated that anxious attachment led to RWA but not SDO and that this effect was mediated by the belief t…
Prepositions in American and British English
The aim of this paper is to compare the distribution of prepositions in American and British English. Two machine‐readable 1 million word corpora, the BROWN Corpus of American English and the LOB Corpus of British English are used as a basis of comparison. The prepositions that occur in both American and British English account for more than 99% of all the occurrences of prepositions in both corpora. Moreover, the distribution of the six most com…
Emotions, Campaigns, and Political Participation
There has been a scarcity of work examining the political consequences of discrete emotions. This article examines the political effects of several emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and enthusiasm. Emotional ads should influence whether voters become politically active. To test this, two experiments were administered. The first examines emotional responses to campaign messages; the second tests whether emotions influence political participation. The…
The Political Consequences of Perceived Threat and Felt Insecurity
The authors draw on data from a national random digit dial (RDD) telephone sample of 1,549 adult Americans conducted between October 15, 2001, and March 2, 2002, to explore the impact of a need for security on support for national security policies in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They examine support for protective government policies among individuals who vary in their ability to feel secure in the aftermath of terrorism, explori…
Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition
According to moral foundations theory (Haidt & Joseph, 2004), five foundations are central to moral intuition. The two individualizing foundations—harm/care and fairness/reciprocity—hinge on the rights of the individual, whereas the three binding foundations—in‐group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity—focus on communal bonds. Recent work suggests that reliance on the various foundations varies as a function of sociopolitical orientat…
Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences
Scholars have documented numerous examples of how liberals and conservatives differ in considering public policy. Recent work in political psychology has sought to understand these differences by detailing the ways in which liberals and conservatives approach political and social issues. In their moral foundations theory, Haidt and Joseph contend the divisions between liberals and conservatives are rooted in different views of morality. They demo…
Courting Christians: How Political Candidates Prime Religious Considerations in Campaign Ads
Religion occupies a central role in American politics. From being an impetus behind numerous political movements, to shaping how political candidates are considered, scholars and pundits alike have emphasized the role of religion for political behavior and attitudes. Yet, there has been a scarcity of empirical work examining the consequences of religious appeals in campaigns. Drawing on recent work that contends views about religious traditionali…
Traits versus Issues: How Female Candidates Shape Coverage of Senate and Gubernatorial Races
As female candidates may face greater challenges in establishing their “qualifications” for office, coverage of their personal traits may be pernicious, because it tends to de-emphasize substantive qualifications. This study focuses on relative amounts of trait and issue coverage of contests with and without women candidates. We find that races with female candidates yield more coverage of traits than male versus male contests and races with fema…
It’s All in the Name: Source Cue Ambiguity and the Persuasive Appeal of Campaign Ads
Who Said What? The Effects of Source Cues in Issue Frames
Placing Racial Stereotypes in Context: Social Desirability and the Politics of Racial Hostility
Past research indicates that diversity at the level of larger geographic units (e.g., counties) is linked to white racial hostility. However, research has not addressed whether diverse local contexts may strengthen or weaken the relationship between racial stereotypes and policy attitudes. In a statewide opinion survey, we find that black‐white racial diversity at the zip‐code level strengthens the connection between racial stereotypes and race‐r…
Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief
We examine whether two general dimensions of sociopolitical belief-right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)-are rooted in insecure psychological attachment. Based on an undergraduate sample ( N = 255), we model the relations among attachment styles, general worldviews, RWA, and SDO. A structural equation model indicated that anxious attachment led to RWA but not SDO and that this effect was mediated by the belief t…
An Effective Approach to the Repeated Cross‐Sectional Design
Repeated cross‐sectional (RCS) designs are distinguishable from true panels and pooled cross‐sectional time series (PCSTS) since cross‐sectional units (e.g., individual survey respondents) appear but once in the data. This poses two serious challenges. First, as with PCSTS, autocorrelation threatens inferences. However, common solutions like differencing and using a lagged dependent variable are not possible with RCS since lags for i cannot be us…
Exploring the Psychological Foundations of Ideological and Social Sorting
Americans are sorting ideologically: Liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: Partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot fully explain variation in sorting. We argue that psychological characteristics ca…
Socially Mediated Internet Surveys: Recruiting Participants for Online Experiments
The Socially Mediated Internet Survey (SMIS) method is a cost-effective technique used to obtain web-based, adult samples for experimental research in political science. SMIS engages central figures in online social networks to help recruit participants among visitors to these websites, yielding sizable samples for experimental research. We present data from six samples collected using the SMIS method and compare them to those gathered by other s…
Genetics, Personality, and Group Identity
Objective Group identity is a central concept in many social science disciplines. We investigate why people identify with groups and show favoritism to in‐group members. We anticipate group identifications are substantially influenced by genes and social environments, likely working through stable personality traits. Methods Using twin study data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States ( MIDUS I ), we investigate the …
Affective Consistency and Sorting
Objective Sorting is often portrayed as a mechanistic response to elite polarization: individuals recognize salient differences between the parties and match their preferences accordingly. Much less is known, however, about the psychological and motivational processes that contribute to it. In particular, how might affective reactions to elites shape convergence among political preferences? Method To explore the relationship between the consisten…
Social Desirability Bias in the 2016 Presidential Election
Partisanship is a stable trait but expressions of partisan preferences can vary according to social context. When particular preferences become socially undesirable, some individuals refrain from expressing them in public, even in relatively anonymous settings such as surveys and polls. In this study, we rely on the psychological trait of self-monitoring to show that Americans who are more likely to adjust their behaviors to comply with social no…
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors
Journal Article Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors Get access Ashley E. Kirzinger, Ashley E. Kirzinger 1Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA 1Corresponding author: Ashley Elizabeth Kirzinger; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Weber, Christopher Weber 2Department of Political Science and Manship Scho…
The Characteristics of Interpersonal Networks in Disaster Response
It is well established that discussion networks have meaningful consequences for a variety of sociopolitical attitudes and behavior. In this project, we explore how social structure shapes reactions to disaster; in particular, the 2010 BP oil spill. We address the questions of how networks are relied upon following community‐wide disaster, and to what extent these networks mirror social structures in other domains. To examine these questions, we …
Prepositions in American and British English
The aim of this paper is to compare the distribution of prepositions in American and British English. Two machine‐readable 1 million word corpora, the BROWN Corpus of American English and the LOB Corpus of British English are used as a basis of comparison. The prepositions that occur in both American and British English account for more than 99% of all the occurrences of prepositions in both corpora. Moreover, the distribution of the six most com…
The Political Consequences of Perceived Threat and Felt Insecurity
The authors draw on data from a national random digit dial (RDD) telephone sample of 1,549 adult Americans conducted between October 15, 2001, and March 2, 2002, to explore the impact of a need for security on support for national security policies in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They examine support for protective government policies among individuals who vary in their ability to feel secure in the aftermath of terrorism, explori…
Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief
We examine whether two general dimensions of sociopolitical belief-right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)-are rooted in insecure psychological attachment. Based on an undergraduate sample ( N = 255), we model the relations among attachment styles, general worldviews, RWA, and SDO. A structural equation model indicated that anxious attachment led to RWA but not SDO and that this effect was mediated by the belief t…
Who Said What? The Effects of Source Cues in Issue Frames
Genetics, Personality, and Group Identity
Objective Group identity is a central concept in many social science disciplines. We investigate why people identify with groups and show favoritism to in‐group members. We anticipate group identifications are substantially influenced by genes and social environments, likely working through stable personality traits. Methods Using twin study data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States ( MIDUS I ), we investigate the …
Courting Christians: How Political Candidates Prime Religious Considerations in Campaign Ads
Religion occupies a central role in American politics. From being an impetus behind numerous political movements, to shaping how political candidates are considered, scholars and pundits alike have emphasized the role of religion for political behavior and attitudes. Yet, there has been a scarcity of empirical work examining the consequences of religious appeals in campaigns. Drawing on recent work that contends views about religious traditionali…
It’s All in the Name: Source Cue Ambiguity and the Persuasive Appeal of Campaign Ads
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors
Journal Article Genetic and Environmental Influences on Media Use and Communication Behaviors Get access Ashley E. Kirzinger, Ashley E. Kirzinger 1Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA 1Corresponding author: Ashley Elizabeth Kirzinger; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Weber, Christopher Weber 2Department of Political Science and Manship Scho…
Traits versus Issues: How Female Candidates Shape Coverage of Senate and Gubernatorial Races
As female candidates may face greater challenges in establishing their “qualifications” for office, coverage of their personal traits may be pernicious, because it tends to de-emphasize substantive qualifications. This study focuses on relative amounts of trait and issue coverage of contests with and without women candidates. We find that races with female candidates yield more coverage of traits than male versus male contests and races with fema…
Emotions, Campaigns, and Political Participation
There has been a scarcity of work examining the political consequences of discrete emotions. This article examines the political effects of several emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and enthusiasm. Emotional ads should influence whether voters become politically active. To test this, two experiments were administered. The first examines emotional responses to campaign messages; the second tests whether emotions influence political participation. The…
Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences
Scholars have documented numerous examples of how liberals and conservatives differ in considering public policy. Recent work in political psychology has sought to understand these differences by detailing the ways in which liberals and conservatives approach political and social issues. In their moral foundations theory, Haidt and Joseph contend the divisions between liberals and conservatives are rooted in different views of morality. They demo…
Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition
According to moral foundations theory (Haidt & Joseph, 2004), five foundations are central to moral intuition. The two individualizing foundations—harm/care and fairness/reciprocity—hinge on the rights of the individual, whereas the three binding foundations—in‐group/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity/sanctity—focus on communal bonds. Recent work suggests that reliance on the various foundations varies as a function of sociopolitical orientat…
Socially Mediated Internet Surveys: Recruiting Participants for Online Experiments
The Socially Mediated Internet Survey (SMIS) method is a cost-effective technique used to obtain web-based, adult samples for experimental research in political science. SMIS engages central figures in online social networks to help recruit participants among visitors to these websites, yielding sizable samples for experimental research. We present data from six samples collected using the SMIS method and compare them to those gathered by other s…
Placing Racial Stereotypes in Context: Social Desirability and the Politics of Racial Hostility
Past research indicates that diversity at the level of larger geographic units (e.g., counties) is linked to white racial hostility. However, research has not addressed whether diverse local contexts may strengthen or weaken the relationship between racial stereotypes and policy attitudes. In a statewide opinion survey, we find that black‐white racial diversity at the zip‐code level strengthens the connection between racial stereotypes and race‐r…
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It
Journal Article The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It Get access The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It by Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2014. 376 pp. $29.95. Christopher Weber Christopher Weber University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
An Effective Approach to the Repeated Cross‐Sectional Design
Repeated cross‐sectional (RCS) designs are distinguishable from true panels and pooled cross‐sectional time series (PCSTS) since cross‐sectional units (e.g., individual survey respondents) appear but once in the data. This poses two serious challenges. First, as with PCSTS, autocorrelation threatens inferences. However, common solutions like differencing and using a lagged dependent variable are not possible with RCS since lags for i cannot be us…
Social Desirability Bias in the 2016 Presidential Election
Partisanship is a stable trait but expressions of partisan preferences can vary according to social context. When particular preferences become socially undesirable, some individuals refrain from expressing them in public, even in relatively anonymous settings such as surveys and polls. In this study, we rely on the psychological trait of self-monitoring to show that Americans who are more likely to adjust their behaviors to comply with social no…
The Characteristics of Interpersonal Networks in Disaster Response
It is well established that discussion networks have meaningful consequences for a variety of sociopolitical attitudes and behavior. In this project, we explore how social structure shapes reactions to disaster; in particular, the 2010 BP oil spill. We address the questions of how networks are relied upon following community‐wide disaster, and to what extent these networks mirror social structures in other domains. To examine these questions, we …
Affective Consistency and Sorting
Objective Sorting is often portrayed as a mechanistic response to elite polarization: individuals recognize salient differences between the parties and match their preferences accordingly. Much less is known, however, about the psychological and motivational processes that contribute to it. In particular, how might affective reactions to elites shape convergence among political preferences? Method To explore the relationship between the consisten…
Exploring the Psychological Foundations of Ideological and Social Sorting
Americans are sorting ideologically: Liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: Partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot fully explain variation in sorting. We argue that psychological characteristics ca…
Authoritarianism and Political Conflict
In this chapter we review recent research on authoritarianism with the goal of addressing major issues of conceptualization, measurement, and political consequences. We highlight a conceptualization of authoritarianism that identifies the desire for social cohesion and defense of ingroup norms as central to the dynamics of authoritarianism. The consequences of authoritarianism—intolerance of dissent, out-group animosity, and support for anti-demo…
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