Nathaniel Swigger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel Swigger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Swigger |
| SIGNATURE | SWIGGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0746-8015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Is it them vs. Us, or do we just think it’s them vs. Us
Social identities shape our worldview and influence information processing. Some categories of social identity (such as political partisanship or college football fans) are intrinsically competitive. Others (such as religions or ethnicities) are not always competitors but may be viewed as competitors by some group members. We examine social identities and use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and the Game of Dice Task (GDT) to examine decision making.…
Partisans Hear, but They Don’t Listen: Testing the Limits of Partisanship in Risky Decision Making
Political partisanship stems from the fundamental process of categorizing one’s social world and influences important behavioral outcomes, such information processing. The present study examines the role of political partisanship in risky decision making as assessed with the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a common ecologically valid behavioral task. Participants ( N = 881) were randomly assigned to modified IGT conditions: one in which the advantageou…
Gender Essentialism and Responses to Candidates’ Messages
People often form negative attitudes against those who deviate from gender norms. Within the political realm, this has the potential to translate into effects on perceptions of candidate likability and traits. Female candidates who tend to focus on issues stereotypically thought of as feminine are generally more positively evaluated than those who focus on stereotypically masculine domains. The current studies investigate whether these effects va…
The Effect of Gender Norms in Sitcoms on Support for Access to Abortion and Contraception
Can ostensibly nonpolitical television programming affect policy opinions? In this article, I use a laboratory experiment to test whether the gender norms portrayed on two primetime sitcoms can alter political attitudes on gender issues, specifically access to abortion, and contraception. Though the shows in the experiment did not explicitly discuss any policy, I find that sitcoms can influence policy opinions, particularly when the show conveys …
Sexual Responsibility and the Politics of Abortion and Contraception
Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights? News Coverage of the Human Costs of Military Conflict From World War I to Gulf War Two
Domestic political support is an important factor constraining the use of American military power around the world. Although the dynamics of war support are thought to reflect a cost-benefit calculus, with costs represented by numbers of friendly war deaths, no previous study has examined how information about friendly, enemy, and civilian casualties is routinely presented to domestic audiences. This article establishes a baseline measure of hist…
The Online Citizen: Is Social Media Changing Citizens’ Beliefs About Democratic Values
What You See Is What You Get: Drawing Inferences From Campaign Imagery
Can images in campaign ads change voter perceptions of candidates? I use a series of controlled experiments to demonstrate that viewers make inferences about a candidate based on the types of people depicted in campaign ads. Viewers were more likely to believe that the candidate supported political benefits for certain demographic or professional groups when images of group members were included in campaign ads. They were also more likely to char…
Assumed Transmission in Political Science: A Call for Bringing Description Back In
News outlets cannot serve as reliable conveyors of social facts, nor do their audiences crave such content. Nonetheless, much political science scholarship assumes that objective information about social, political, and economic topics is routinely transmitted to the mass public through the news. This article addresses the problem of selection bias in news content and illustrates the problem with a content analytic study of New York Times coverag…
Is There Truth in Advertising? Campaign Ad Images as Signals about Legislative Behavior
We explore the extent to which the images used in House candidates' campaign advertisements serve as signals about their policy positions and issue priorities in Congress. Our analyses, based on the campaign advertisements of 130 winning candidates in the 2000 election and their subsequent interest group voting scores and introduction and cosponsorship activity in the 107th Congress, demonstrate that ad imagery-legislative behavior linkages are c…
The Online Citizen: Is Social Media Changing Citizens’ Beliefs About Democratic Values
Is There Truth in Advertising? Campaign Ad Images as Signals about Legislative Behavior
We explore the extent to which the images used in House candidates' campaign advertisements serve as signals about their policy positions and issue priorities in Congress. Our analyses, based on the campaign advertisements of 130 winning candidates in the 2000 election and their subsequent interest group voting scores and introduction and cosponsorship activity in the 107th Congress, demonstrate that ad imagery-legislative behavior linkages are c…
What You See Is What You Get: Drawing Inferences From Campaign Imagery
Can images in campaign ads change voter perceptions of candidates? I use a series of controlled experiments to demonstrate that viewers make inferences about a candidate based on the types of people depicted in campaign ads. Viewers were more likely to believe that the candidate supported political benefits for certain demographic or professional groups when images of group members were included in campaign ads. They were also more likely to char…
Assumed Transmission in Political Science: A Call for Bringing Description Back In
News outlets cannot serve as reliable conveyors of social facts, nor do their audiences crave such content. Nonetheless, much political science scholarship assumes that objective information about social, political, and economic topics is routinely transmitted to the mass public through the news. This article addresses the problem of selection bias in news content and illustrates the problem with a content analytic study of New York Times coverag…
Gender Essentialism and Responses to Candidates’ Messages
People often form negative attitudes against those who deviate from gender norms. Within the political realm, this has the potential to translate into effects on perceptions of candidate likability and traits. Female candidates who tend to focus on issues stereotypically thought of as feminine are generally more positively evaluated than those who focus on stereotypically masculine domains. The current studies investigate whether these effects va…
Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights? News Coverage of the Human Costs of Military Conflict From World War I to Gulf War Two
Domestic political support is an important factor constraining the use of American military power around the world. Although the dynamics of war support are thought to reflect a cost-benefit calculus, with costs represented by numbers of friendly war deaths, no previous study has examined how information about friendly, enemy, and civilian casualties is routinely presented to domestic audiences. This article establishes a baseline measure of hist…
Sexual Responsibility and the Politics of Abortion and Contraception
The Effect of Gender Norms in Sitcoms on Support for Access to Abortion and Contraception
Can ostensibly nonpolitical television programming affect policy opinions? In this article, I use a laboratory experiment to test whether the gender norms portrayed on two primetime sitcoms can alter political attitudes on gender issues, specifically access to abortion, and contraception. Though the shows in the experiment did not explicitly discuss any policy, I find that sitcoms can influence policy opinions, particularly when the show conveys …
Partisans Hear, but They Don’t Listen: Testing the Limits of Partisanship in Risky Decision Making
Political partisanship stems from the fundamental process of categorizing one’s social world and influences important behavioral outcomes, such information processing. The present study examines the role of political partisanship in risky decision making as assessed with the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a common ecologically valid behavioral task. Participants ( N = 881) were randomly assigned to modified IGT conditions: one in which the advantageou…
Is There Truth in Advertising? Campaign Ad Images as Signals about Legislative Behavior
We explore the extent to which the images used in House candidates' campaign advertisements serve as signals about their policy positions and issue priorities in Congress. Our analyses, based on the campaign advertisements of 130 winning candidates in the 2000 election and their subsequent interest group voting scores and introduction and cosponsorship activity in the 107th Congress, demonstrate that ad imagery-legislative behavior linkages are c…
Assumed Transmission in Political Science: A Call for Bringing Description Back In
News outlets cannot serve as reliable conveyors of social facts, nor do their audiences crave such content. Nonetheless, much political science scholarship assumes that objective information about social, political, and economic topics is routinely transmitted to the mass public through the news. This article addresses the problem of selection bias in news content and illustrates the problem with a content analytic study of New York Times coverag…
What You See Is What You Get: Drawing Inferences From Campaign Imagery
Can images in campaign ads change voter perceptions of candidates? I use a series of controlled experiments to demonstrate that viewers make inferences about a candidate based on the types of people depicted in campaign ads. Viewers were more likely to believe that the candidate supported political benefits for certain demographic or professional groups when images of group members were included in campaign ads. They were also more likely to char…
The Online Citizen: Is Social Media Changing Citizens’ Beliefs About Democratic Values
Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights? News Coverage of the Human Costs of Military Conflict From World War I to Gulf War Two
Domestic political support is an important factor constraining the use of American military power around the world. Although the dynamics of war support are thought to reflect a cost-benefit calculus, with costs represented by numbers of friendly war deaths, no previous study has examined how information about friendly, enemy, and civilian casualties is routinely presented to domestic audiences. This article establishes a baseline measure of hist…
Sexual Responsibility and the Politics of Abortion and Contraception
The Effect of Gender Norms in Sitcoms on Support for Access to Abortion and Contraception
Can ostensibly nonpolitical television programming affect policy opinions? In this article, I use a laboratory experiment to test whether the gender norms portrayed on two primetime sitcoms can alter political attitudes on gender issues, specifically access to abortion, and contraception. Though the shows in the experiment did not explicitly discuss any policy, I find that sitcoms can influence policy opinions, particularly when the show conveys …
Gender Essentialism and Responses to Candidates’ Messages
People often form negative attitudes against those who deviate from gender norms. Within the political realm, this has the potential to translate into effects on perceptions of candidate likability and traits. Female candidates who tend to focus on issues stereotypically thought of as feminine are generally more positively evaluated than those who focus on stereotypically masculine domains. The current studies investigate whether these effects va…
Partisans Hear, but They Don’t Listen: Testing the Limits of Partisanship in Risky Decision Making
Political partisanship stems from the fundamental process of categorizing one’s social world and influences important behavioral outcomes, such information processing. The present study examines the role of political partisanship in risky decision making as assessed with the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a common ecologically valid behavioral task. Participants ( N = 881) were randomly assigned to modified IGT conditions: one in which the advantageou…
Is it them vs. Us, or do we just think it’s them vs. Us
Social identities shape our worldview and influence information processing. Some categories of social identity (such as political partisanship or college football fans) are intrinsically competitive. Others (such as religions or ethnicities) are not always competitors but may be viewed as competitors by some group members. We examine social identities and use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and the Game of Dice Task (GDT) to examine decision making.…
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