Brian McDonald

Biographic Data

ID5407748
NAMEBrian McDonald
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMEMcDonald
SIGNATUREMCDONALD B
AFFILIATIONSHigh Point University
ORCID0000-0003-1601-5445
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Increasing Public Support for Transgender Rights through Superordinate LGBT+ Rights Framing

    Open AccessSam Whitt, Alixandra B Yanus et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2025Cited by: 1References: 7

    We consider how LGBT+ legal rights frameworks, broadly construed, can be used to bolster support within the general public for transgender subgroup rights. Our research is informed by theoretical perspectives on appeals to superordinate identities to reduce prejudice. Based on a survey experiment in the United States, we find that framing a salient transgender advocacy issue—transgender participation in sports—within a broader LGBT+ legal rights …

  • Perceived Foolishness

    Open AccessRory Summerley, Brian McDonaldARTICLEGames and Culture2024References: 4

    The spectatorship of games has become a topic of growing interest with the parallel rise of esports and livestreaming platforms. Taking Saltybet.com as its primary case study, this paper examines cases where zero-player games played by artificial intelligence-controlled characters are the focus of spectatorship. A discourse analysis identifies trends and themes in the recorded chat transcripts of 15 livestreamed tournaments from Saltybet.com wher…

  • Explaining Partisan Gaps in Satisfaction with Democracy after Contentious Elections

    Open AccessSam Whitt, Alixandra B Yanus et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2023References: 28

    What effects do contentious elections have on partisan appraisals of democracy? We consider the case of the November 2020 US election, a highly polarized partisan contest but also an objectively free and fair election by credible accounting. We conducted a panel study embedded within two nationally representative surveys before and after the election. Results indicate a familiar but underexamined partisan gap, in which satisfaction with democracy…

  • A fuel-based method for updating mobile source emissions during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessColin Harkins, Brian McDonald et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown of many US States resulted in rapid changes to motor vehicle traffic and their associated emissions. This presents a challenge for air quality modelling and forecasting during this period, in that transportation emission inventories need to be updated in near real-time. Here, we update the previously developed fuel-based inventory of vehicle emissions (FIVE) to account for changes due to COVID-19 lockdow…

  • Criteria pollutant impacts of volatile chemical products informed by near-field modelling

    Open AccessMomei Qin, Benjamin N Murphy et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 1

  • Tribalism in America

    Open AccessSam Whitt, Alixandra B Yanus et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Political…2020Cited by: 9References: 10

    Our research speaks to the ongoing debate over the extent and severity of partisan political divisions in American society. We employ behavioral experiments to probe for affective polarization using dictator, trust, and public goods games with party identification treatments. We find that subjects who identify politically with the Democratic or Republican Party and ideologically as liberals and conservatives display stronger affective biases than…

  • Gathering the Voices

    Open AccessAngela Shapiro, Brian McDonald et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2014References: 1

    The aim of the Gathering the Voices project is to gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors who have made their home in Scotland and to make these testimonies available on the World Wide Web. The project commenced in 2012, and a key outcome of the project is to educate current and future generations about the resilience of these survivors. Volunteers from the Jewish community are collaborating with staff and undergraduate students in Glasgow Ca…

  • Philip Roth’s Mock Lincoln

    Brian McDonald, Brian J McDonaldARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2014References: 2

    This article considers the core political ideas that animate Philip Roth’s McCarthy-era novel I Married a Communist through a critical analysis of the novel’s central character, Ira “Iron Rinn” Ringold. It argues that, with Ira, Roth dramatizes the ambiguity that surrounds both the Lincolnian ideal of individual self-determination and the intractable presence of betrayal in the theory and practice of American liberal democracy