Lawrence J Zigerell
Biographic Data
| ID | 147834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence J Zigerell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence J |
| FAMILY NAME | Zigerell |
| SIGNATURE | ZIGERELL L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4262-8405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Improving racialization research
Analyses assessing whether a particular phenomenon has been racialized often use only one measure of racial attitudes at a time. However, simultaneous use of independent measures of attitudes about more than one relevant racial group can produce a better understanding about the nature of racialization. To illustrate this, an analysis of American National Election Studies data indicated that, among White adult U.S. citizens in 2020, ratings about …
Ordering Effects in Stereotype Scales
Stereotypes about groups are commonly measured by asking participants to rate the groups on a scale. However, the percentage of participants who stereotype a group can be affected by the order in which participants are asked to rate the groups. Data from a randomized experiment in the American National Election Studies 2022 Pilot Study indicated that a group was more frequently positively stereotyped relative to another group when the group was a…
Estimating the Effect of Positivity About Immigrants on Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Much of the research that estimates how attitudes about immigrants affect outcomes uses a measure that ranges from a lack of negativity about immigrants to a high level of negativity about immigrants. But this overlooks the effect of positivity about immigrants. The present study illustrates a method that uses a neutral point of indifference about immigrants to separate the effect of positivity about immigrants from the effect of negativity about…
Did Brett Kavanaugh's overt partisanship cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
Objective Carrington and French (2021) claimed that “our findings suggest that, when a nominee [to the U.S. Supreme Court] behaves in an overtly partisan manner, it can cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the Court by increasing support for efforts to rein in the Court's authority and independence” (p. 1485). The evidence reported in Carrington and French (2021) for this claim is assessed. Method The research designs in Carrington and French (…
Reply to “Powerless Conservatives or Powerless Findings
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Understanding public support for eugenic policies
Little published empirical research has investigated public support for eugenic policies. To add to this literature, a survey on attitudes about eugenic policies was conducted of participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk who indicated residence in the United States (N > 400). Survey items assessed the levels and correlates of support for policies that, among other things, encourage lower levels of reproduction among the poor, the unintelligent, an…
Left Unchecked
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"Critical comment on "Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage
This critical comment notes an important error of inference in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019). Results reported in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019) do not permit the inference that any of the second-generation Asian groups in the study-Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans-face a "bamboo ceiling" disadvantage relative to native Whites in attaining managerial or professional occupations in the U.S. labor market, controlling for educational …
Black and White discrimination in the United States
This study reports results from a new analysis of 17 survey experiment studies that permitted assessment of racial discrimination, drawn from the archives of the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. For White participants (n=10 435), pooled results did not detect a net discrimination for or against White targets, but, for Black participants (n=2781), pooled results indicated the presence of a small-to-moderate net discrimination in f…
Developing Standards for Post-Hoc Weighting in Population-Based Survey Experiments
Weighting techniques are employed to generalize results from survey experiments to populations of theoretical and substantive interest. Although weighting is often viewed as a second-order methodological issue, these adjustment methods invoke untestable assumptions about the nature of sample selection and potential heterogeneity in the treatment effect. Therefore, although weighting is a useful technique in estimating population quantities, it ca…
A Reponse to Maliniak, Powers, and Walter
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Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates
Political science researchers have flexibility in how to analyze data, how to report data, and whether to report on data. A review of examples of reporting flexibility from the race and sex discrimination literature illustrates how research design choices can influence estimates and inferences. This reporting flexibility—coupled with the political imbalance among political scientists—creates the potential for political bias in reported political …
Distinguishing Racism from Ideology
Research using symbolic racism has provided evidence that racial bias has widespread social and political impact in the United States, influencing phenomena such as opposition to policies designed to help blacks, disapproval of Barack Obama, and membership in the Tea Party. However, symbolic racism has a racial component and a conservative component, so many researchers have attempted to isolate the racial component of symbolic racism with statis…
Rookie Mistakes
Political science graduate students need to develop strong skills in drafting empirical research manuscripts. Yet, many graduate student manuscripts contain similar shortcomings, which require student peers, faculty advisors, and journal referees to produce the same comments for multiple manuscripts. This article lists common comments on empirical research manuscripts, as a reference to help students revise their manuscripts before presentation t…
Science knowledge and biblical literalism
Biblical literalists are often described as scientific illiterates, but little if any empirical research has tested this claim. Analysis of a sixteen-item battery from the 2008 US General Social Survey revealed that literalists possess less science knowledge than those with other views of Scripture, but that much of this deficit can be attributed to demographic factors and unequal educational attainment. The marginal direct effect of biblical bel…
Don't Know Much about Democracy
Large majorities in nearly every country support democracy, according to studies of cross-national surveys. But many of these reports have treated as missing data persons who did not provide a substantive response when asked to offer an opinion about the suitability of democracy as a regime type for their country, which has led to substantial overestimates of expressed support for democracy in some countries. This article discusses the consequenc…
Of Publishable Quality
Many political science publications advance knowledge using previously collected data and an innovation or two in theory or methods. To encourage students embarking on a seminar paper project, I review some of these publications to illustrate that the understanding of political phenomena often advances in incremental steps
Midpoint Misperceptions on 1-to-10 Scales
How many posts are needed to build a 100-ft fence with 10-ft intervals? The most intuitive approach to solving this problem (division) suggests that 10 posts are sufficient, but the correct procedure is to divide and then add one, to account for a post at each boundary. Survey respondents interpreting 1-to-10 scales may make a similar mistake, using division to incorrectly determine that the scale’s midpoint is half the highest value. Such a misp…
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Objective. List experiment respondents may misreport the number of list items that they associate with in order to associate themselves with a socially desirable test item or to disassociate themselves from a socially undesirable test item. Tests for such misreporting were conducted. Methods. List experiments from the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey, the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, and the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analy…
Senator Opposition to Supreme Court Nominations
Research indicates that senators evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominations on two ideological dimensions: the distance between themselves and the nominee, and the potential effect confirmation would have on the Court median. My analysis of nominations from 1968 to 2006 provides evidence that senators are also influenced by the ideological contrast between the nominee and the departing justice
Developing Standards for Post-Hoc Weighting in Population-Based Survey Experiments
Weighting techniques are employed to generalize results from survey experiments to populations of theoretical and substantive interest. Although weighting is often viewed as a second-order methodological issue, these adjustment methods invoke untestable assumptions about the nature of sample selection and potential heterogeneity in the treatment effect. Therefore, although weighting is a useful technique in estimating population quantities, it ca…
Distinguishing Racism from Ideology
Research using symbolic racism has provided evidence that racial bias has widespread social and political impact in the United States, influencing phenomena such as opposition to policies designed to help blacks, disapproval of Barack Obama, and membership in the Tea Party. However, symbolic racism has a racial component and a conservative component, so many researchers have attempted to isolate the racial component of symbolic racism with statis…
Black and White discrimination in the United States
This study reports results from a new analysis of 17 survey experiment studies that permitted assessment of racial discrimination, drawn from the archives of the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. For White participants (n=10 435), pooled results did not detect a net discrimination for or against White targets, but, for Black participants (n=2781), pooled results indicated the presence of a small-to-moderate net discrimination in f…
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Objective. List experiment respondents may misreport the number of list items that they associate with in order to associate themselves with a socially desirable test item or to disassociate themselves from a socially undesirable test item. Tests for such misreporting were conducted. Methods. List experiments from the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey, the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, and the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analy…
Senator Opposition to Supreme Court Nominations
Research indicates that senators evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominations on two ideological dimensions: the distance between themselves and the nominee, and the potential effect confirmation would have on the Court median. My analysis of nominations from 1968 to 2006 provides evidence that senators are also influenced by the ideological contrast between the nominee and the departing justice
"Critical comment on "Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage
This critical comment notes an important error of inference in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019). Results reported in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019) do not permit the inference that any of the second-generation Asian groups in the study-Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans-face a "bamboo ceiling" disadvantage relative to native Whites in attaining managerial or professional occupations in the U.S. labor market, controlling for educational …
Did Brett Kavanaugh's overt partisanship cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
Objective Carrington and French (2021) claimed that “our findings suggest that, when a nominee [to the U.S. Supreme Court] behaves in an overtly partisan manner, it can cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the Court by increasing support for efforts to rein in the Court's authority and independence” (p. 1485). The evidence reported in Carrington and French (2021) for this claim is assessed. Method The research designs in Carrington and French (…
Reply to “Powerless Conservatives or Powerless Findings
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Understanding public support for eugenic policies
Little published empirical research has investigated public support for eugenic policies. To add to this literature, a survey on attitudes about eugenic policies was conducted of participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk who indicated residence in the United States (N > 400). Survey items assessed the levels and correlates of support for policies that, among other things, encourage lower levels of reproduction among the poor, the unintelligent, an…
Left Unchecked
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates
Political science researchers have flexibility in how to analyze data, how to report data, and whether to report on data. A review of examples of reporting flexibility from the race and sex discrimination literature illustrates how research design choices can influence estimates and inferences. This reporting flexibility—coupled with the political imbalance among political scientists—creates the potential for political bias in reported political …
Of Publishable Quality
Many political science publications advance knowledge using previously collected data and an innovation or two in theory or methods. To encourage students embarking on a seminar paper project, I review some of these publications to illustrate that the understanding of political phenomena often advances in incremental steps
Midpoint Misperceptions on 1-to-10 Scales
How many posts are needed to build a 100-ft fence with 10-ft intervals? The most intuitive approach to solving this problem (division) suggests that 10 posts are sufficient, but the correct procedure is to divide and then add one, to account for a post at each boundary. Survey respondents interpreting 1-to-10 scales may make a similar mistake, using division to incorrectly determine that the scale’s midpoint is half the highest value. Such a misp…
Senator Opposition to Supreme Court Nominations
Research indicates that senators evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominations on two ideological dimensions: the distance between themselves and the nominee, and the potential effect confirmation would have on the Court median. My analysis of nominations from 1968 to 2006 provides evidence that senators are also influenced by the ideological contrast between the nominee and the departing justice
Of Publishable Quality
Many political science publications advance knowledge using previously collected data and an innovation or two in theory or methods. To encourage students embarking on a seminar paper project, I review some of these publications to illustrate that the understanding of political phenomena often advances in incremental steps
Midpoint Misperceptions on 1-to-10 Scales
How many posts are needed to build a 100-ft fence with 10-ft intervals? The most intuitive approach to solving this problem (division) suggests that 10 posts are sufficient, but the correct procedure is to divide and then add one, to account for a post at each boundary. Survey respondents interpreting 1-to-10 scales may make a similar mistake, using division to incorrectly determine that the scale’s midpoint is half the highest value. Such a misp…
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Objective. List experiment respondents may misreport the number of list items that they associate with in order to associate themselves with a socially desirable test item or to disassociate themselves from a socially undesirable test item. Tests for such misreporting were conducted. Methods. List experiments from the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey, the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, and the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analy…
Science knowledge and biblical literalism
Biblical literalists are often described as scientific illiterates, but little if any empirical research has tested this claim. Analysis of a sixteen-item battery from the 2008 US General Social Survey revealed that literalists possess less science knowledge than those with other views of Scripture, but that much of this deficit can be attributed to demographic factors and unequal educational attainment. The marginal direct effect of biblical bel…
Don't Know Much about Democracy
Large majorities in nearly every country support democracy, according to studies of cross-national surveys. But many of these reports have treated as missing data persons who did not provide a substantive response when asked to offer an opinion about the suitability of democracy as a regime type for their country, which has led to substantial overestimates of expressed support for democracy in some countries. This article discusses the consequenc…
Rookie Mistakes
Political science graduate students need to develop strong skills in drafting empirical research manuscripts. Yet, many graduate student manuscripts contain similar shortcomings, which require student peers, faculty advisors, and journal referees to produce the same comments for multiple manuscripts. This article lists common comments on empirical research manuscripts, as a reference to help students revise their manuscripts before presentation t…
Distinguishing Racism from Ideology
Research using symbolic racism has provided evidence that racial bias has widespread social and political impact in the United States, influencing phenomena such as opposition to policies designed to help blacks, disapproval of Barack Obama, and membership in the Tea Party. However, symbolic racism has a racial component and a conservative component, so many researchers have attempted to isolate the racial component of symbolic racism with statis…
Developing Standards for Post-Hoc Weighting in Population-Based Survey Experiments
Weighting techniques are employed to generalize results from survey experiments to populations of theoretical and substantive interest. Although weighting is often viewed as a second-order methodological issue, these adjustment methods invoke untestable assumptions about the nature of sample selection and potential heterogeneity in the treatment effect. Therefore, although weighting is a useful technique in estimating population quantities, it ca…
A Reponse to Maliniak, Powers, and Walter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates
Political science researchers have flexibility in how to analyze data, how to report data, and whether to report on data. A review of examples of reporting flexibility from the race and sex discrimination literature illustrates how research design choices can influence estimates and inferences. This reporting flexibility—coupled with the political imbalance among political scientists—creates the potential for political bias in reported political …
Black and White discrimination in the United States
This study reports results from a new analysis of 17 survey experiment studies that permitted assessment of racial discrimination, drawn from the archives of the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. For White participants (n=10 435), pooled results did not detect a net discrimination for or against White targets, but, for Black participants (n=2781), pooled results indicated the presence of a small-to-moderate net discrimination in f…
Understanding public support for eugenic policies
Little published empirical research has investigated public support for eugenic policies. To add to this literature, a survey on attitudes about eugenic policies was conducted of participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk who indicated residence in the United States (N > 400). Survey items assessed the levels and correlates of support for policies that, among other things, encourage lower levels of reproduction among the poor, the unintelligent, an…
Left Unchecked
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
"Critical comment on "Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage
This critical comment notes an important error of inference in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019). Results reported in Tran, Lee, and Huang (2019) do not permit the inference that any of the second-generation Asian groups in the study-Chinese, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Koreans-face a "bamboo ceiling" disadvantage relative to native Whites in attaining managerial or professional occupations in the U.S. labor market, controlling for educational …
Reply to “Powerless Conservatives or Powerless Findings
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Did Brett Kavanaugh's overt partisanship cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
Objective Carrington and French (2021) claimed that “our findings suggest that, when a nominee [to the U.S. Supreme Court] behaves in an overtly partisan manner, it can cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the Court by increasing support for efforts to rein in the Court's authority and independence” (p. 1485). The evidence reported in Carrington and French (2021) for this claim is assessed. Method The research designs in Carrington and French (…
Ordering Effects in Stereotype Scales
Stereotypes about groups are commonly measured by asking participants to rate the groups on a scale. However, the percentage of participants who stereotype a group can be affected by the order in which participants are asked to rate the groups. Data from a randomized experiment in the American National Election Studies 2022 Pilot Study indicated that a group was more frequently positively stereotyped relative to another group when the group was a…
Estimating the Effect of Positivity About Immigrants on Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Much of the research that estimates how attitudes about immigrants affect outcomes uses a measure that ranges from a lack of negativity about immigrants to a high level of negativity about immigrants. But this overlooks the effect of positivity about immigrants. The present study illustrates a method that uses a neutral point of indifference about immigrants to separate the effect of positivity about immigrants from the effect of negativity about…
Improving racialization research
Analyses assessing whether a particular phenomenon has been racialized often use only one measure of racial attitudes at a time. However, simultaneous use of independent measures of attitudes about more than one relevant racial group can produce a better understanding about the nature of racialization. To illustrate this, an analysis of American National Election Studies data indicated that, among White adult U.S. citizens in 2020, ratings about …
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