Antoine J Banks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoine J Banks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoine J |
| FAMILY NAME | Banks |
| SIGNATURE | BANKS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4655-7376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 715 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism
Individuals often experience anger after exposure to news about a terrorist attack. Are the coping strategies available to them effective in reducing anger, and with what consequences for policy attitudes? We argue that because terrorism is a complex problem, people should feel better distancing themselves from the threat than engaging in confrontive strategies against it, and this should lead to less extreme attitudes. Across three experimental …
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting
It is now a well-documented fact of survey research that Black survey respondents overreport turning out to vote at higher rates than many of their peers of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. We bring renewed attention to this phenomenon by investigating how the ways in which the race of the interviewer might influence a Back respondent’s propensity to overreport turning out to vote. In this paper, we test two competing mechanisms for African A…
PolarizedFeeds: Three Experiments on Polarization, Framing, and Social Media
Does exposure to social media polarize users or simply sort out like-minded voters based on their preexisting beliefs? In this paper, we conduct three survey experiments to assess the direct and unconditioned effect of exposure to tweets on perceived ideological polarization of candidates and parties. We show that subjects treated with negative tweets see greater ideological distance between presidential nominees and between their parties. We als…
Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality
The Effectiveness of a Racialized Counterstrategy
Our article examines whether a politician charging a political candidate's implicit racial campaign appeal as racist is an effective political strategy. According to the racial priming theory, this racialized counterstrategy should deactivate racism, thereby decreasing racially conservative whites’ support for the candidate engaged in race baiting. We propose an alternative theory in which racial liberals, and not racially conservative whites, ar…
Fear and Implicit Racism: Whites’ Support for Voter ID laws
Oftentimes, Whites are unaware that they may have slighted Blacks. Although researchers have spent a considerable amount of attention disentangling this form of implicit (unconscious) racial bias from explicit (conscious) racial bias, we are less clear about the conditions that cause implicit racism to matter in American politics. In this article, we offer a theory of how fear and Whites' unconscious racial bias are tightly linked in memory, and …
Are Group Cues Necessary? How Anger Makes Ethnocentrism Among Whites a Stronger Predictor of Racial and Immigration Policy Opinions
Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America
Politicians, scholars, and pundits often disagree about whether race has been injected into a political campaign or policy debate. Some have suspected that race sometimes enters into politics even when political elites avoid using racial cues or racially coded language. Anger and Racial Politics provides a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional conditions under which this effect might happen. Banks asserts that making whites angry …
Emotional Rescue: How Affect Helps Partisans Overcome Collective Action Problems
Why does party identification motivate citizens to participate in politics? From a theoretical standpoint, it is in a partisan's self‐interest to free ride on the efforts of others. Yet, mere identification with a party is enough to motivate many people to overcome this structural hurdle. We theorize that, by virtue of aligning one's self with a party, individuals become more likely to react to their political environment with anger and enthusias…
The Public’s Anger: White Racial Attitudes and Opinions Toward Health Care Reform
Experiments to Reduce the Over-Reporting of Voting: A Pipeline to the Truth
Voting is a fundamental part of any democratic society. But survey-based measures of voting are problematic because a substantial proportion of nonvoters report that they voted. This over-reporting has consequences for our understanding of voting as well as the behaviors and attitudes associated with voting. Relying on the “bogus pipeline” approach, we investigate whether altering the wording of the turnout question can cause respondents to provi…
Racialized Campaign Ads
Journal Article Racialized Campaign Ads: The Emotional Content in Implicit Racial Appeals Primes White Racial Attitudes Get access Antoine J. Banks, Antoine J. Banks * Antoine J. Banks is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics and a research fellow at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Melissa A. Bell holds a PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryla…
Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes
A steep decline in biologically based racial animus over the past four decades has not led to a softening of opposition to race‐conscious policies such as affirmative action. One explanation for this is that a new racial belief system—referred to as symbolic racism or racial resentment—has replaced “old‐fashioned racism.” Another is that nonracial values such as ideology and a preference for small government now drive policy opinions. Our theory …
Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility
The rise of the Internet forces scholars to reevaluate the frequency and nature of political information seeking in the contemporary period. The functionality of the Internet makes passive exposure more difficult, and selective information seeking easier, than in the past. However, people may also use the Internet in a new and directed way—to arm themselves with information to express and defend their views either online or in the real world. The…
Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet
In this study we explore the mediating role of emotions in the process of becoming a politically informed citizen. Contrary to previous studies, we expect that anger and anxiety will have much different effects on this process. We suspect the role of anxiety is somewhat unique even among negative emotions as mediator of the causal effect of political threats on information seeking and learning. In addition, we speculate that anxiety should improv…
Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet
In this study we explore the mediating role of emotions in the process of becoming a politically informed citizen. Contrary to previous studies, we expect that anger and anxiety will have much different effects on this process. We suspect the role of anxiety is somewhat unique even among negative emotions as mediator of the causal effect of political threats on information seeking and learning. In addition, we speculate that anxiety should improv…
Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes
A steep decline in biologically based racial animus over the past four decades has not led to a softening of opposition to race‐conscious policies such as affirmative action. One explanation for this is that a new racial belief system—referred to as symbolic racism or racial resentment—has replaced “old‐fashioned racism.” Another is that nonracial values such as ideology and a preference for small government now drive policy opinions. Our theory …
Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility
The rise of the Internet forces scholars to reevaluate the frequency and nature of political information seeking in the contemporary period. The functionality of the Internet makes passive exposure more difficult, and selective information seeking easier, than in the past. However, people may also use the Internet in a new and directed way—to arm themselves with information to express and defend their views either online or in the real world. The…
Emotional Rescue: How Affect Helps Partisans Overcome Collective Action Problems
Why does party identification motivate citizens to participate in politics? From a theoretical standpoint, it is in a partisan's self‐interest to free ride on the efforts of others. Yet, mere identification with a party is enough to motivate many people to overcome this structural hurdle. We theorize that, by virtue of aligning one's self with a party, individuals become more likely to react to their political environment with anger and enthusias…
The Public’s Anger: White Racial Attitudes and Opinions Toward Health Care Reform
Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality
Fear and Implicit Racism: Whites’ Support for Voter ID laws
Oftentimes, Whites are unaware that they may have slighted Blacks. Although researchers have spent a considerable amount of attention disentangling this form of implicit (unconscious) racial bias from explicit (conscious) racial bias, we are less clear about the conditions that cause implicit racism to matter in American politics. In this article, we offer a theory of how fear and Whites' unconscious racial bias are tightly linked in memory, and …
Experiments to Reduce the Over-Reporting of Voting: A Pipeline to the Truth
Voting is a fundamental part of any democratic society. But survey-based measures of voting are problematic because a substantial proportion of nonvoters report that they voted. This over-reporting has consequences for our understanding of voting as well as the behaviors and attitudes associated with voting. Relying on the “bogus pipeline” approach, we investigate whether altering the wording of the turnout question can cause respondents to provi…
Racialized Campaign Ads
Journal Article Racialized Campaign Ads: The Emotional Content in Implicit Racial Appeals Primes White Racial Attitudes Get access Antoine J. Banks, Antoine J. Banks * Antoine J. Banks is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics and a research fellow at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Melissa A. Bell holds a PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryla…
PolarizedFeeds: Three Experiments on Polarization, Framing, and Social Media
Does exposure to social media polarize users or simply sort out like-minded voters based on their preexisting beliefs? In this paper, we conduct three survey experiments to assess the direct and unconditioned effect of exposure to tweets on perceived ideological polarization of candidates and parties. We show that subjects treated with negative tweets see greater ideological distance between presidential nominees and between their parties. We als…
Are Group Cues Necessary? How Anger Makes Ethnocentrism Among Whites a Stronger Predictor of Racial and Immigration Policy Opinions
The Effectiveness of a Racialized Counterstrategy
Our article examines whether a politician charging a political candidate's implicit racial campaign appeal as racist is an effective political strategy. According to the racial priming theory, this racialized counterstrategy should deactivate racism, thereby decreasing racially conservative whites’ support for the candidate engaged in race baiting. We propose an alternative theory in which racial liberals, and not racially conservative whites, ar…
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting
It is now a well-documented fact of survey research that Black survey respondents overreport turning out to vote at higher rates than many of their peers of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. We bring renewed attention to this phenomenon by investigating how the ways in which the race of the interviewer might influence a Back respondent’s propensity to overreport turning out to vote. In this paper, we test two competing mechanisms for African A…
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism
Individuals often experience anger after exposure to news about a terrorist attack. Are the coping strategies available to them effective in reducing anger, and with what consequences for policy attitudes? We argue that because terrorism is a complex problem, people should feel better distancing themselves from the threat than engaging in confrontive strategies against it, and this should lead to less extreme attitudes. Across three experimental …
Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet
In this study we explore the mediating role of emotions in the process of becoming a politically informed citizen. Contrary to previous studies, we expect that anger and anxiety will have much different effects on this process. We suspect the role of anxiety is somewhat unique even among negative emotions as mediator of the causal effect of political threats on information seeking and learning. In addition, we speculate that anxiety should improv…
Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility
The rise of the Internet forces scholars to reevaluate the frequency and nature of political information seeking in the contemporary period. The functionality of the Internet makes passive exposure more difficult, and selective information seeking easier, than in the past. However, people may also use the Internet in a new and directed way—to arm themselves with information to express and defend their views either online or in the real world. The…
Emotional Substrates of White Racial Attitudes
A steep decline in biologically based racial animus over the past four decades has not led to a softening of opposition to race‐conscious policies such as affirmative action. One explanation for this is that a new racial belief system—referred to as symbolic racism or racial resentment—has replaced “old‐fashioned racism.” Another is that nonracial values such as ideology and a preference for small government now drive policy opinions. Our theory …
Racialized Campaign Ads
Journal Article Racialized Campaign Ads: The Emotional Content in Implicit Racial Appeals Primes White Racial Attitudes Get access Antoine J. Banks, Antoine J. Banks * Antoine J. Banks is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics and a research fellow at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Melissa A. Bell holds a PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryla…
Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America
Politicians, scholars, and pundits often disagree about whether race has been injected into a political campaign or policy debate. Some have suspected that race sometimes enters into politics even when political elites avoid using racial cues or racially coded language. Anger and Racial Politics provides a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional conditions under which this effect might happen. Banks asserts that making whites angry …
Emotional Rescue: How Affect Helps Partisans Overcome Collective Action Problems
Why does party identification motivate citizens to participate in politics? From a theoretical standpoint, it is in a partisan's self‐interest to free ride on the efforts of others. Yet, mere identification with a party is enough to motivate many people to overcome this structural hurdle. We theorize that, by virtue of aligning one's self with a party, individuals become more likely to react to their political environment with anger and enthusias…
The Public’s Anger: White Racial Attitudes and Opinions Toward Health Care Reform
Experiments to Reduce the Over-Reporting of Voting: A Pipeline to the Truth
Voting is a fundamental part of any democratic society. But survey-based measures of voting are problematic because a substantial proportion of nonvoters report that they voted. This over-reporting has consequences for our understanding of voting as well as the behaviors and attitudes associated with voting. Relying on the “bogus pipeline” approach, we investigate whether altering the wording of the turnout question can cause respondents to provi…
Fear and Implicit Racism: Whites’ Support for Voter ID laws
Oftentimes, Whites are unaware that they may have slighted Blacks. Although researchers have spent a considerable amount of attention disentangling this form of implicit (unconscious) racial bias from explicit (conscious) racial bias, we are less clear about the conditions that cause implicit racism to matter in American politics. In this article, we offer a theory of how fear and Whites' unconscious racial bias are tightly linked in memory, and …
Are Group Cues Necessary? How Anger Makes Ethnocentrism Among Whites a Stronger Predictor of Racial and Immigration Policy Opinions
Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality
The Effectiveness of a Racialized Counterstrategy
Our article examines whether a politician charging a political candidate's implicit racial campaign appeal as racist is an effective political strategy. According to the racial priming theory, this racialized counterstrategy should deactivate racism, thereby decreasing racially conservative whites’ support for the candidate engaged in race baiting. We propose an alternative theory in which racial liberals, and not racially conservative whites, ar…
PolarizedFeeds: Three Experiments on Polarization, Framing, and Social Media
Does exposure to social media polarize users or simply sort out like-minded voters based on their preexisting beliefs? In this paper, we conduct three survey experiments to assess the direct and unconditioned effect of exposure to tweets on perceived ideological polarization of candidates and parties. We show that subjects treated with negative tweets see greater ideological distance between presidential nominees and between their parties. We als…
Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting
It is now a well-documented fact of survey research that Black survey respondents overreport turning out to vote at higher rates than many of their peers of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. We bring renewed attention to this phenomenon by investigating how the ways in which the race of the interviewer might influence a Back respondent’s propensity to overreport turning out to vote. In this paper, we test two competing mechanisms for African A…
Emotionally Coping with Terrorism
Individuals often experience anger after exposure to news about a terrorist attack. Are the coping strategies available to them effective in reducing anger, and with what consequences for policy attitudes? We argue that because terrorism is a complex problem, people should feel better distancing themselves from the threat than engaging in confrontive strategies against it, and this should lead to less extreme attitudes. Across three experimental …
Political science (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Anger (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works)