Joshua Cloudy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4622680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Cloudy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Cloudy |
| SIGNATURE | CLOUDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5788-1879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Perceived Warmth, Competence, and Opportunity on Candidate Threat Perception and Campaign Participation
According to the stereotype content model, negative campaign messaging should induce the greatest perception of threat and promote greater campaign participation when a political candidate presents the outgroup candidate as lacking in warmth but possessing a high level of competence. However, the current political environment suggests that political campaigns can also induce perceptions of threat by focusing on the external circumstances that pro…
Vulnerable Online
This study draws from the literature in group processes and intergroup relations, metacognition, motivational processes, and criminology to identify risk factors for joining an extremist group, classifies individuals into risk profiles, and examines how the risk profiles moderate efforts at recruitment into such groups. The results of a latent profile analysis ( N = 721) demonstrated the existence of three risk profiles (i.e., low, moderate, and …
Living in a (Mediated) Political World
The present research draws from the work in narrative transportation to examine the impact of problematic news consumption (PNC) on increased political hostility among partisans. Because individuals with high levels of PNC tend to become absorbed and fixated on the mediated political world, which is filled with exaggerated depictions of political conflict, they should be more prone to view those who disagree with them as “enemies,” leading to an …
Stitch incoming
This study examined how TikTok use relates to political engagement and aggression. Due to different imagined audiences , we expected TikTok use to be more strongly related with contentious political engagement than use of other social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. In order to test these expectations, we conducted a survey with 700 U.S. adults. Results show that TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter use is positively related to online pol…
“Don’t scroll … we’re lifting you up in prayer”
Rip Top G
This study explores the rhetoric used by Andrew Tate, known as a ‘misogyny influencer’, and its impact on his followers. Tate released a vlog in response to his ban from social media. This vlog was analyzed along with his followers’ comments ( n = 300) on the video. Through hegemonic masculinity and social identity frameworks, we offer a thematic analysis of Tate's rhetoric. Results contribute to the growing body of literature on online manospher…
The Str(AI)ght Scoop
In the face of increasing public distrust for journalistic institutions, stories sourced from artificially intelligent (AI) journalists have the potential to lower hostile media bias by activating the machine heuristic—a mental shortcut assuming machines are more unbiased, systematic, and accurate than are humans. An online experiment targeting issue partisans found support for the prediction: a story presented as sourced from an AI journalist ac…
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism
This research note draws from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), uncertainty-identity theory, and intergroup threat theory to investigate the conditions under which members of online political networks are likely to endorse extremism. Using a national survey of 717 U.S. adults who self-identify as members of an online group comprising politically like-minded others, we find that when perceived group threat is high, group…
Rip Top G
This study explores the rhetoric used by Andrew Tate, known as a ‘misogyny influencer’, and its impact on his followers. Tate released a vlog in response to his ban from social media. This vlog was analyzed along with his followers’ comments ( n = 300) on the video. Through hegemonic masculinity and social identity frameworks, we offer a thematic analysis of Tate's rhetoric. Results contribute to the growing body of literature on online manospher…
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism
This research note draws from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), uncertainty-identity theory, and intergroup threat theory to investigate the conditions under which members of online political networks are likely to endorse extremism. Using a national survey of 717 U.S. adults who self-identify as members of an online group comprising politically like-minded others, we find that when perceived group threat is high, group…
The Str(AI)ght Scoop
In the face of increasing public distrust for journalistic institutions, stories sourced from artificially intelligent (AI) journalists have the potential to lower hostile media bias by activating the machine heuristic—a mental shortcut assuming machines are more unbiased, systematic, and accurate than are humans. An online experiment targeting issue partisans found support for the prediction: a story presented as sourced from an AI journalist ac…
Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism
This research note draws from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), uncertainty-identity theory, and intergroup threat theory to investigate the conditions under which members of online political networks are likely to endorse extremism. Using a national survey of 717 U.S. adults who self-identify as members of an online group comprising politically like-minded others, we find that when perceived group threat is high, group…
Stitch incoming
This study examined how TikTok use relates to political engagement and aggression. Due to different imagined audiences , we expected TikTok use to be more strongly related with contentious political engagement than use of other social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. In order to test these expectations, we conducted a survey with 700 U.S. adults. Results show that TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter use is positively related to online pol…
“Don’t scroll … we’re lifting you up in prayer”
Rip Top G
This study explores the rhetoric used by Andrew Tate, known as a ‘misogyny influencer’, and its impact on his followers. Tate released a vlog in response to his ban from social media. This vlog was analyzed along with his followers’ comments ( n = 300) on the video. Through hegemonic masculinity and social identity frameworks, we offer a thematic analysis of Tate's rhetoric. Results contribute to the growing body of literature on online manospher…
The Role of Perceived Warmth, Competence, and Opportunity on Candidate Threat Perception and Campaign Participation
According to the stereotype content model, negative campaign messaging should induce the greatest perception of threat and promote greater campaign participation when a political candidate presents the outgroup candidate as lacking in warmth but possessing a high level of competence. However, the current political environment suggests that political campaigns can also induce perceptions of threat by focusing on the external circumstances that pro…
Vulnerable Online
This study draws from the literature in group processes and intergroup relations, metacognition, motivational processes, and criminology to identify risk factors for joining an extremist group, classifies individuals into risk profiles, and examines how the risk profiles moderate efforts at recruitment into such groups. The results of a latent profile analysis ( N = 721) demonstrated the existence of three risk profiles (i.e., low, moderate, and …
Living in a (Mediated) Political World
The present research draws from the work in narrative transportation to examine the impact of problematic news consumption (PNC) on increased political hostility among partisans. Because individuals with high levels of PNC tend to become absorbed and fixated on the mediated political world, which is filled with exaggerated depictions of political conflict, they should be more prone to view those who disagree with them as “enemies,” leading to an …
Politics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works)