Tatishe M Nteta
Biographic Data
| ID | 114893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tatishe M Nteta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tatishe M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nteta |
| SIGNATURE | NTETA T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Outgroup representation in close networks shows a nonlinear association with mental well-being
Building on research linking social diversity to well-being, we examined how racial outgroup representation in individuals’ close social networks relates to mental well-being during two periods of heightened societal stress: the COVID-19 pandemic and a polarized election period. Across two large, nationally representative datasets (N = 4,955), we observed a curvilinear relationship: moderate racial outgroup representation was linked to the lowest…
Shifting Demographics, Shifting Perceptions: How Race and Politics Shape Reactions to the Majority-Minority Future
Racial minorities are expected to be a majority of the U.S. population by 2044. We examined predictors of Americans’ perceptions towards this racial demographic shift (RDS), how accurately they estimate others’ perceptions, and whether an intervention corrects people’s misperceptions. In Study 1, in a nationally representative sample ( N = 1,600), most Republicans, Independents, and Democrats viewed the RDS as neutral or good. Being White, conser…
The New Racial Spillover: Donald Trump, Racial Attitudes, and Public Opinion Toward Accountability for Perpetrators and Planners of the January 6 Capitol Attack
Since the violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities have sought to hold participants and organizers accountable for their assault on American democracy. Troublingly, however, a substantial fraction of the public opposes the prosecution of participants in the assault on the Capitol and rejects charging former president Trump with crimes relating to the planning and execution of the attack. Why does a substantial fraction of…
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated whether misalignment between an individual and their community in partisan identity predicted psychological and behavioral distancing from local COVID-19 norms. A nationally representative sample of Republicans and Democrats provided longitudinal data in April ( N = 3,492) and June 2020 ( N = 2,649). Democrats in Republican communities reported especially heightened better-than-average estimates, perceiving themselves as m…
What’s in a Name? Symbolic Racism, Public Opinion, and the Controversy over the NFL’s Washington Football Team Name
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Scholars have long debated whether and to what extent citizens punish political candidates for explicitly racist rhetoric. However, few studies explore whether a similar dynamic occurs when explicitly sexist messages are conveyed on the campaign trail. Do citizens recoil when exposed to explicitly sexist messages? To investigate this question, we exploit the unique opportunity afforded by the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape during the 2016…
Helping to Break the Glass Ceiling? Fathers, First Daughters, and Presidential Vote Choice in 2016
Burying the Hatchet? Elite Influence and White Opinion on the Washington Redskins Controversy
Objective Is the opinion of white Americans regarding the continued use of the Washington Redskins’ team name influenced by their exposure to elite rhetoric that supports a team name change and views the team's name as offensive? Methods In order to explore the potential for elite opinion leadership on white opinion, this article employs a survey experiment embedded in the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study in which respondents were ra…
The First-Daughter Effect
An extensive literature on the politics of the family suggests that familial relationships play a central role in individuals' political socialization and can ultimately shape one's policy preferences. A current debate within this literature deals with the impact of daughters on fathers' political attitudes. In this article, we address this debate in relation to a specific set of policy preferences and ask: Does the experience of fathering daught…
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Conditional Representation: Presidential Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the Representation of African American Interests
Conventional theories of presidential representation suggest that presidents avoid courting African Americans for fear of alienating white voters, leading to the underrepresentation of "black interests." We argue that presidential representation of black interests is conditional: when (1) African Americans prioritize issues other than economic redistribution and civil rights and (2) when these priorities overlap with those of whites, presidents s…
Self-selection versus Socialization Revisited: Military Service, Racial Resentment, and Generational Membership
Scholarship on racial attitudes has found that white veterans of World War II and the Korean War had more positive views of blacks than white civilians. However, more recent studies have argued that white veterans who have served in an all-volunteer force (AVF) now express more virulent views of blacks. Using data from the 2010-2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we explore whether military service continues to predict positive racial …
The Past Is Prologue: African American Opinion toward Undocumented Immigration
Using data from the 2011 Multi-State Survey on Race and Politics (Parker 2011), I ask if African American 1 opinion toward undocumented immigration mirrors African American opinion toward immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I find evidence that contemporary African American opinion does reflect the manner in which a previous generation of African Americans reacted to immigrant newcome…
A Change is Gonna Come: Generational Membership and White Racial Attitudes in the 21stCentury
The election of PresidentBarackObama offers a unique opportunity to test the impressionable‐years hypothesis—the theory of political socialization that predicts that widely experienced political events can have a lasting impact on the political attitudes of individuals who experience that event in their youth, thereby creating a generational distinction. Using data from an original survey embedded in the 2010CooperativeCongressionalElectionStudy,…
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
The First-Daughter Effect
An extensive literature on the politics of the family suggests that familial relationships play a central role in individuals' political socialization and can ultimately shape one's policy preferences. A current debate within this literature deals with the impact of daughters on fathers' political attitudes. In this article, we address this debate in relation to a specific set of policy preferences and ask: Does the experience of fathering daught…
Self-selection versus Socialization Revisited: Military Service, Racial Resentment, and Generational Membership
Scholarship on racial attitudes has found that white veterans of World War II and the Korean War had more positive views of blacks than white civilians. However, more recent studies have argued that white veterans who have served in an all-volunteer force (AVF) now express more virulent views of blacks. Using data from the 2010-2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we explore whether military service continues to predict positive racial …
A Change is Gonna Come: Generational Membership and White Racial Attitudes in the 21stCentury
The election of PresidentBarackObama offers a unique opportunity to test the impressionable‐years hypothesis—the theory of political socialization that predicts that widely experienced political events can have a lasting impact on the political attitudes of individuals who experience that event in their youth, thereby creating a generational distinction. Using data from an original survey embedded in the 2010CooperativeCongressionalElectionStudy,…
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Scholars have long debated whether and to what extent citizens punish political candidates for explicitly racist rhetoric. However, few studies explore whether a similar dynamic occurs when explicitly sexist messages are conveyed on the campaign trail. Do citizens recoil when exposed to explicitly sexist messages? To investigate this question, we exploit the unique opportunity afforded by the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape during the 2016…
Helping to Break the Glass Ceiling? Fathers, First Daughters, and Presidential Vote Choice in 2016
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
Conditional Representation: Presidential Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the Representation of African American Interests
Conventional theories of presidential representation suggest that presidents avoid courting African Americans for fear of alienating white voters, leading to the underrepresentation of "black interests." We argue that presidential representation of black interests is conditional: when (1) African Americans prioritize issues other than economic redistribution and civil rights and (2) when these priorities overlap with those of whites, presidents s…
The New Racial Spillover: Donald Trump, Racial Attitudes, and Public Opinion Toward Accountability for Perpetrators and Planners of the January 6 Capitol Attack
Since the violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities have sought to hold participants and organizers accountable for their assault on American democracy. Troublingly, however, a substantial fraction of the public opposes the prosecution of participants in the assault on the Capitol and rejects charging former president Trump with crimes relating to the planning and execution of the attack. Why does a substantial fraction of…
The Past Is Prologue: African American Opinion toward Undocumented Immigration
Using data from the 2011 Multi-State Survey on Race and Politics (Parker 2011), I ask if African American 1 opinion toward undocumented immigration mirrors African American opinion toward immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I find evidence that contemporary African American opinion does reflect the manner in which a previous generation of African Americans reacted to immigrant newcome…
Burying the Hatchet? Elite Influence and White Opinion on the Washington Redskins Controversy
Objective Is the opinion of white Americans regarding the continued use of the Washington Redskins’ team name influenced by their exposure to elite rhetoric that supports a team name change and views the team's name as offensive? Methods In order to explore the potential for elite opinion leadership on white opinion, this article employs a survey experiment embedded in the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study in which respondents were ra…
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
A Change is Gonna Come: Generational Membership and White Racial Attitudes in the 21stCentury
The election of PresidentBarackObama offers a unique opportunity to test the impressionable‐years hypothesis—the theory of political socialization that predicts that widely experienced political events can have a lasting impact on the political attitudes of individuals who experience that event in their youth, thereby creating a generational distinction. Using data from an original survey embedded in the 2010CooperativeCongressionalElectionStudy,…
The Past Is Prologue: African American Opinion toward Undocumented Immigration
Using data from the 2011 Multi-State Survey on Race and Politics (Parker 2011), I ask if African American 1 opinion toward undocumented immigration mirrors African American opinion toward immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I find evidence that contemporary African American opinion does reflect the manner in which a previous generation of African Americans reacted to immigrant newcome…
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Conditional Representation: Presidential Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the Representation of African American Interests
Conventional theories of presidential representation suggest that presidents avoid courting African Americans for fear of alienating white voters, leading to the underrepresentation of "black interests." We argue that presidential representation of black interests is conditional: when (1) African Americans prioritize issues other than economic redistribution and civil rights and (2) when these priorities overlap with those of whites, presidents s…
Self-selection versus Socialization Revisited: Military Service, Racial Resentment, and Generational Membership
Scholarship on racial attitudes has found that white veterans of World War II and the Korean War had more positive views of blacks than white civilians. However, more recent studies have argued that white veterans who have served in an all-volunteer force (AVF) now express more virulent views of blacks. Using data from the 2010-2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we explore whether military service continues to predict positive racial …
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Burying the Hatchet? Elite Influence and White Opinion on the Washington Redskins Controversy
Objective Is the opinion of white Americans regarding the continued use of the Washington Redskins’ team name influenced by their exposure to elite rhetoric that supports a team name change and views the team's name as offensive? Methods In order to explore the potential for elite opinion leadership on white opinion, this article employs a survey experiment embedded in the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study in which respondents were ra…
The First-Daughter Effect
An extensive literature on the politics of the family suggests that familial relationships play a central role in individuals' political socialization and can ultimately shape one's policy preferences. A current debate within this literature deals with the impact of daughters on fathers' political attitudes. In this article, we address this debate in relation to a specific set of policy preferences and ask: Does the experience of fathering daught…
Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Scholars have long debated whether and to what extent citizens punish political candidates for explicitly racist rhetoric. However, few studies explore whether a similar dynamic occurs when explicitly sexist messages are conveyed on the campaign trail. Do citizens recoil when exposed to explicitly sexist messages? To investigate this question, we exploit the unique opportunity afforded by the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape during the 2016…
Helping to Break the Glass Ceiling? Fathers, First Daughters, and Presidential Vote Choice in 2016
What’s in a Name? Symbolic Racism, Public Opinion, and the Controversy over the NFL’s Washington Football Team Name
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated whether misalignment between an individual and their community in partisan identity predicted psychological and behavioral distancing from local COVID-19 norms. A nationally representative sample of Republicans and Democrats provided longitudinal data in April ( N = 3,492) and June 2020 ( N = 2,649). Democrats in Republican communities reported especially heightened better-than-average estimates, perceiving themselves as m…
The New Racial Spillover: Donald Trump, Racial Attitudes, and Public Opinion Toward Accountability for Perpetrators and Planners of the January 6 Capitol Attack
Since the violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities have sought to hold participants and organizers accountable for their assault on American democracy. Troublingly, however, a substantial fraction of the public opposes the prosecution of participants in the assault on the Capitol and rejects charging former president Trump with crimes relating to the planning and execution of the attack. Why does a substantial fraction of…
Outgroup representation in close networks shows a nonlinear association with mental well-being
Building on research linking social diversity to well-being, we examined how racial outgroup representation in individuals’ close social networks relates to mental well-being during two periods of heightened societal stress: the COVID-19 pandemic and a polarized election period. Across two large, nationally representative datasets (N = 4,955), we observed a curvilinear relationship: moderate racial outgroup representation was linked to the lowest…
Shifting Demographics, Shifting Perceptions: How Race and Politics Shape Reactions to the Majority-Minority Future
Racial minorities are expected to be a majority of the U.S. population by 2044. We examined predictors of Americans’ perceptions towards this racial demographic shift (RDS), how accurately they estimate others’ perceptions, and whether an intervention corrects people’s misperceptions. In Study 1, in a nationally representative sample ( N = 1,600), most Republicans, Independents, and Democrats viewed the RDS as neutral or good. Being White, conser…
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