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Yanna Krupnikov

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ID920807
NAMEYanna Krupnikov
GIVEN NAMESYanna
FAMILY NAMEKrupnikov
SIGNATUREKRUPNIKOV Y
AFFILIATIONSStony Brook University
ORCID0000-0002-4708-0074
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS1185
AUTHOR COUNT52
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX19
  • Rethinking Assumptions About Moral Content Selection: Moral-Emotional Content May Be Less Appealing Than Assumed

    Open Access•Isabella Rebasso, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2026

    Recent work has shown that moral-emotional content spreads rapidly on social media platforms such as X (Twitter). These patterns have led to concerns that social media facilitates the spread of moral outrage – potentially exacerbating political conflict and animosity. While most past work has focused on the supply side of this phenomenon, i.e. the transmission of morally charged political content, we consider the demand side: do people actually w…

  • Measuring affective polarization: Matching concepts to measures

    Open Access•James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2026

    Affective polarization is the extent to which partisans like their own party relative to their dislike of opposing parties. High levels of affective polarization in the United States and many other countries have prompted widespread scholarly interest and practical concern. Yet, despite nearly 15 years of scholarship, significant uncertainty remains about how best to measure affective polarization. We offer a comprehensive review focused on the m…

  • Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security

    Open Access•Jonathan D Caverley, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 72

    Politicians' ability to provide national security to the public is deeply enmeshed in conceptions of the state and of leadership. This article incorporates securitization, feminist, and political communication theories to consider whether gendered and militarized conceptions of national security have different effects for politicians who are women and those who are men. Although scholarship suggests that signaling military bona fides-such as invo…

  • "Selecting Out of "Politics: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation

    Open Access•Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2025•Cited by: 10•References: 43

    In recent decades, the term "politics" has become almost synonymous with conflict. Results from eight studies show that individuals averse to conflict tend to select out of surveys and discussions explicitly labeled as "political." This suggests that the inferences researchers draw from "political" surveys, as well as the impressions average Americans draw from explicitly "political" discussions, will be systematically biased toward conflict. We …

  • Introduction to Freedom of Expression in an Age of Social Media, Misinformation, and Political Polarization

    Open Access•E Hersh, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2023

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  • The Other Divide

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan•BOOK•Other Divide•2022

    There is little doubt that increasing polarization over the last decade has transformed the American political landscape. In The Other Divide, Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan challenge the nature and extent of that polarization. They find that more than party, Americans are divided by involvement in politics. On one side is a group of Americans who are deeply involved in politics and very expressive about their political views; on the other s…

  • Who Are Leaners? How True Independents Differ from the Weakest Partisans and Why It Matters

    Open Access•Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•The Forum•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    Independents who lean toward a party constitute a plurality of Americans. Despite their reluctance to identify as partisans, scholars find that “leaners” look much like partisans with respect to their voting behavior, civic engagement, and policy preferences. Yet, existing literature does not consider the possibility that different factors lead Democrats and Republicans to opt for an independent label. We consider heterogeneity in what leads peop…

  • Forum: Gendered Dynamics of Academic Networks

    Open Access•Jamie Scalera, Stephen Mark Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Perspectives•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    This forum examines whether scholars’ access to networks in the international studies profession is gendered and if so, the consequences of those networks for personal and professional success. Academic networks that encompass both professional and personal connections have been proposed as one solution to chilly climate issues because they provide a dual function of enhancing scholarly productivity and inclusion in the profession. The articles i…

  • (Mis)estimating Affective Polarization

    James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2022•Cited by: 69•References: 38

    Affective polarization—the tendency of ordinary partisans to dislike and distrust those from the other party—is a defining feature of contemporary American politics. High levels of out-party animus stem, in part, from misperceptions of the other party’s voters. Specifically, individuals misestimate the ideological extremity and political engagement of typical out-partisans. When partisans are asked about “Democrats” or the “Republican Party,” the…

  • When Trust Matters: The Case of Gun Control

    Open Access•John Barry Ryan, Talbot M Andrews et al.•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2022•Cited by: 7•References: 51

  • Convenience Samples in Political Science Experiments

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, H Hannah Nam et al.•CHAPTER•Advances in Experimental…•2021

    This chapter provides an overview of convenience sampling in political science experimental research. We first define convenience sampling and track its use in political science research. Next, we focus on the use of three sample types: undergraduate convenience samples, crowdsourced convenience samples, and other types such as social media and non-student convenience sample samples. We review empirical research on the potential issues with each …

  • Notes from the Editors: Apsr

    Open Access•Janet Burns, Maeve Duggan et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•References: 3

    veryone knows that social media can be an "outrage machine": a dark hole of blistering criticism and rejection that fosters "compare and despair" syndrome by inviting us to judge our inner selves against others' Instagram pics (Haidt and Twenge 2021). However, it also has the potential to connect people in new and dynamic ways, helping to build community across distance and difference

  • Does Measurement Affect the Gender Gap in Political Partisanship

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Hillary Style et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    There is a partisan gender gap in American politics: women are more likely than men to identify as Democrats. Relying on an experiment that randomly assigns measures of partisanship, Burden (2008) finds that part of this gap can be explained by question-wording effects: when partisanship measures prime affect—rather than cognition—women are significantly more likely to identify as Republicans, significantly decreasing the partisan gender gap. Giv…

  • How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms

    Open Access•Jon Kingzette, James N Druckman et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 168•References: 26

    Does affective polarization—the tendency to view opposing partisans negatively and co-partisans positively—undermine support for democratic norms? We argue that it does, through two mechanisms. First, in an age of elite polarization, norms have been politicized. This leads affectively polarized partisans to oppose particular constitutional protections when their party is in power but support them when their party is out of power, via a cue-taking…

  • What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation

    Open Access•Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    Rather than exhibiting bias or open‐minded reasoning at baseline, we argue that information processing is motivated by whatever goals a context makes salient. Thus, if politics feels like debate, people will be motivated to argue for their side. If politics feels like deliberation, they will be motivated to seek consensus through open‐minded processing. Results from three experiments demonstrate: (1) Politics evokes thoughts similar to conflictua…

  • Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion

    Open Access•Timothy J Ryan, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•Cited by: 10•References: 51

    Research in psychology has established that people have visceral positive and negative reactions to all kinds of stimuli-so-called implicit attitudes. Implicit attitudes are empirically distinct from explicit attitudes, and they appear to have separate consequences for political behavior. However, little is known about whether they change in response to different factors than explicit attitudes. Identifying distinct antecedents for implicit and e…

  • How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2020•Cited by: 44•References: 15

    Affective polarization – partisans’ dislike and distrust of those from the other party – has reached historically high levels in the United States. While numerous studies estimate its effect on apolitical outcomes (e.g., dating and economic transactions), we know much less about its effects on political beliefs. We argue that those who exhibit high levels of affective polarization politicize ostensibly apolitical issues and actors. An experiment …

  • Social Media and the Changing Information Environment

    Open Access•Patrick W Kraft, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 70

    There is reason to believe that an increasing proportion of the news consumers receive is not from news producers directly but is recirculated through social network sites and email by ordinary citizens. This may produce some fundamental changes in the information environment, but the data to examine this possibility have thus far been relatively limited. In the current paper, we examine the changing information environment by leveraging a body o…

  • Voter uncertainty, political institutions, and legislative turnover

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Charles R Shipan•ARTICLE•Political Science Research and…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 51

    The level of legislative turnover in a polity can have significant political consequences. Low turnover may increase the number of legislators who are out of touch with constituents, while high turnover can limit a legislature’s ability to fulfill its duties. Focusing on separation of powers arrangements, a factor overlooked by previous studies, we identify institutional conditions that affect turnover. When the executive and legislature are equa…

  • Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America

    Open Access•James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2020•Cited by: 92•References: 58

  • Overcoming Biases and Bridging Gaps: The Democratic Dilemma ’s Perspective of Hope

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2019•References: 23

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  • How Transparency Affects Survey Responses

    Open Access•Elizabeth C Connors, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 33

    Following a shift toward greater transparency, many academic journals across a variety of disciplines now require authors to post their data. At the same time, many university Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) have followed recent US federal guidelines and now require researchers to be more transparent with survey participants regarding what will happen to the collected data. In this paper, we take the first steps toward considering the interact…

  • How gender affects the efficacy of discussion as an information shortcut

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita et al.•ARTICLE•Political Science Research and…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 46

    There are a number of observed gender differences in the frequency of political discussion, perceived levels of expertise, and importantly, openness to persuasion. This article explores the consequences of these differences for political choices. Given the difficulty in separating influence from homophily with observational data, this paper relies on a group-based experiment. Results suggest that when selecting between candidates, women are more …

  • Political Issues, Evidence, and Citizen Engagement: The Case of Unequal Access to Affordable Health Care

    Yanna Krupnikov, Adam Seth Levine•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 47

    Some social and economic problems do not gain broad awareness. Yet others become prominent (and perhaps are alleviated) in part because they successfully engage the wider citizenry. In this paper, we investigate how the evidence used to describe problems affects public engagement. Using disparities in access to affordable health care—a focal aspect of economic inequality in the United States—as our main issue, we conduct a series of field and sur…

  • Misinformation and the Justification of Socially Undesirable Preferences

    Open Access•D J Flynn, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    Attempts to correct political misperceptions often fail. The dominant theoretical explanation for this failure comes from psychological research on motivated reasoning. We identify a novel source of motivated reasoning in response to corrective information: the justification of socially undesirable preferences. Further, we demonstrate that this motivation can, under certain conditions, overpower the motivation to maintain congruence. Our empirica…

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  • How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms

    Open Access•Jon Kingzette, James N Druckman et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 168•References: 26

    Does affective polarization—the tendency to view opposing partisans negatively and co-partisans positively—undermine support for democratic norms? We argue that it does, through two mechanisms. First, in an age of elite polarization, norms have been politicized. This leads affectively polarized partisans to oppose particular constitutional protections when their party is in power but support them when their party is out of power, via a cue-taking…

  • Affective Polarization or Partisan Disdain

    Open Access•Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2018•Cited by: 103•References: 16

    Recent scholarship suggests that American partisans dislike other party members so much that partisanship has become the main social divide in modern politics. We argue that at least one measure of this “affective polarization” conflates a dislike for members of the other party with a dislike for partisanship in general. The measure asks people how they feel about their child marrying someone from another party. What seems like negative affect to…

  • The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Nichole M Bauer•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2014•Cited by: 99•References: 40

  • Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Adam Seth Levine•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2014•Cited by: 96•References: 29

    Experimentation is an increasingly popular method among political scientists. While experiments are highly advantageous for creating internally valid conclusions, they are often criticized for being low on external validity. Critical to questions of external validity are the types of subjects who participate in a given experiment, with scholars typically arguing that samples of adults are more externally valid then student samples. Despite the vo…

  • Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America

    Open Access•James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2020•Cited by: 92•References: 58

  • (Mis)estimating Affective Polarization

    James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2022•Cited by: 69•References: 38

    Affective polarization—the tendency of ordinary partisans to dislike and distrust those from the other party—is a defining feature of contemporary American politics. High levels of out-party animus stem, in part, from misperceptions of the other party’s voters. Specifically, individuals misestimate the ideological extremity and political engagement of typical out-partisans. When partisans are asked about “Democrats” or the “Republican Party,” the…

  • Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2015•Cited by: 67•References: 81

    Much of what we know about the responses of voters to Black candidates and female candidates comes from experimental research. Yet the accuracy of experimental data can be threatened by the possibility that social desirability pressures contaminate self‐reporting. We address this threat in a project that considers psychological approaches to reducing social desirability pressures. Offering participants the opportunity to explain their decisions a…

  • When Does Negativity Demobilize? Tracing the Conditional Effect of Negative Campaigning on Voter Turnout

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2011•Cited by: 64•References: 36

    Do negative campaign advertisements affect voter turnout? Existing literature on this topic has produced conflicting empirical results. Some scholars show that negativity is demobilizing. Others show that negativity is mobilizing. Still others show that negativity has no effect on turnout. Relying on the psychology of decision making, this research argues and shows that this empirical stalemate is due to the fact that existing work ignores a cruc…

  • How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•James N Druckman, Samara Klar et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2020•Cited by: 44•References: 15

    Affective polarization – partisans’ dislike and distrust of those from the other party – has reached historically high levels in the United States. While numerous studies estimate its effect on apolitical outcomes (e.g., dating and economic transactions), we know much less about its effects on political beliefs. We argue that those who exhibit high levels of affective polarization politicize ostensibly apolitical issues and actors. An experiment …

  • Racial Prejudice, Partisanship, and White Turnout in Elections with Black Candidates

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2015•Cited by: 39•References: 39

  • Who is Punished? Conditions Affecting Voter Evaluations of Legislators Who Do Not Compromise

    Open Access•Nichole M Bauer, Laurel Harbridge-Yong et al.•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2017•Cited by: 33•References: 54

  • The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice against Blacks

    Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2016•Cited by: 30•References: 39

    A good deal of scholarship examines the effects of prejudice against blacks on public opinion and vote choice in the United States. Despite producing valuable insights, this research largely ignores the attitudes of Latinos-a critical omission, since Latinos constitute a rapidly growing share of the population. Using two nationally representative survey data sets, we find that the level of racial prejudice is comparable for Latinos and non-Hispan…

  • Accentuating the Negative: Candidate Race and Campaign Strategy

    Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2015•Cited by: 29•References: 67

    This article examines the impact of candidate race and campaign negativity on candidate evaluations and turnout. Unlike previous research, we argue that candidate race and campaign negativity should be considered simultaneously. In order to test this argument, we conduct a survey experiment of a nationally representative sample of White adults and a replication study. While we find, consistent with previous research, that respondents unfavorably …

  • What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal‐Dependent Political Evaluation

    Open Access•Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    Rather than exhibiting bias or open‐minded reasoning at baseline, we argue that information processing is motivated by whatever goals a context makes salient. Thus, if politics feels like debate, people will be motivated to argue for their side. If politics feels like deliberation, they will be motivated to seek consensus through open‐minded processing. Results from three experiments demonstrate: (1) Politics evokes thoughts similar to conflictua…

  • Measuring Gubernatorial Budgetary Power: A New Approach

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Charles R Shipan et al.•ARTICLE•State Politics & Policy Quarterly•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 21

    Numerous scholars have considered the relationship between gubernatorial power and political outcomes. In fact, gubernatorial power has been used as a key explanatory factor in analyses of topics such as gubernatorial approval, divided government, regulation, and even individual political behavior. The key to these studies is the precision with which scholars can measure gubernatorial power and many such studies rely on the Formal Powers Index (F…

  • Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage

    Arthur Lupia, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2010•Cited by: 23•References: 14

    Some states treat a same-sex marriage as legally equal to a marriage between a man and a woman. Other states prohibit legal recognition of same-sex marriages in their constitutions. In every state that has a constitutional restriction against same-sex marriage, the amendment was passed by a popular vote. \n\nThe conventional wisdom about allowing voter participation in such decisions is that they yield constitutional outcomes that reflect attitud…

  • The effects of ambiguous rhetoric in congressional elections

    Open Access•Kerri Milita, Elizabeth N Simas et al.•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2017•Cited by: 21•References: 46

  • Clear as Black and White: The Effects of Ambiguous Rhetoric Depend on Candidate Race

    Spencer Piston, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 57

    Campaign advisors and political scientists have long acknowledged the benefits of ambiguous position taking. We argue, however, that these benefits do not extend to black candidates facing nonblack voters. When a white candidate makes vague statements, many of these voters project their own policy positions onto the candidate, increasing support for the candidate. But they are less likely to extend black candidates the same courtesy. We test thes…

  • How Negativity Can Increase and Decrease Voter Turnout: The Effect of Timing

    Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2014•Cited by: 19•References: 51

    Negative ads dominate campaign communication, but scholars continue to disagree over the effects of negativity on voter turnout. While some studies show that negativity leads to a lower likelihood of turnout, others find precisely the opposite. In this article, I leverage the role of timing to unify findings that were heretofore perceived as largely conflicting. I use the same data to show that at a certain time exposure to negativity can be mobi…

  • Aiming at Doves: Experimental Evidence of Military Images’ Political Effects

    Open Access•Jonathan D Caverley, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017•Cited by: 16•References: 63

    Politicians (and journalists covering them) assume that association with the military has political consequences. We propose and experimentally test conditions under which military images have such effects. We presented subjects with images of the US president before varying backgrounds—including soldiers, students, children, and “ordinary” people. Only the image of soldiers has any significant effect, shifting participant preferences toward spen…

  • Social Media and the Changing Information Environment

    Open Access•Patrick W Kraft, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 70

    There is reason to believe that an increasing proportion of the news consumers receive is not from news producers directly but is recirculated through social network sites and email by ordinary citizens. This may produce some fundamental changes in the information environment, but the data to examine this possibility have thus far been relatively limited. In the current paper, we examine the changing information environment by leveraging a body o…

  • Negative Advertising and Voter Choice: The Role of Ads in Candidate Selection

    Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2012•Cited by: 13•References: 34

    Selecting between two candidates during a campaign is a crucial first step toward political involvement: an individual who does not select a preferred political candidate is unlikely to take political action. Can negative campaign ads help individuals make these electoral choices? Empirical evidence on this topic has been mixed. Some argue that negativity can increase the likelihood of choice. Others show that negativity will decrease the likelih…

  • "Selecting Out of "Politics: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation

    Open Access•Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2025•Cited by: 10•References: 43

    In recent decades, the term "politics" has become almost synonymous with conflict. Results from eight studies show that individuals averse to conflict tend to select out of surveys and discussions explicitly labeled as "political." This suggests that the inferences researchers draw from "political" surveys, as well as the impressions average Americans draw from explicitly "political" discussions, will be systematically biased toward conflict. We …

  • Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion

    Open Access•Timothy J Ryan, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•Cited by: 10•References: 51

    Research in psychology has established that people have visceral positive and negative reactions to all kinds of stimuli-so-called implicit attitudes. Implicit attitudes are empirically distinct from explicit attitudes, and they appear to have separate consequences for political behavior. However, little is known about whether they change in response to different factors than explicit attitudes. Identifying distinct antecedents for implicit and e…

  • How Transparency Affects Survey Responses

    Open Access•Elizabeth C Connors, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 33

    Following a shift toward greater transparency, many academic journals across a variety of disciplines now require authors to post their data. At the same time, many university Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) have followed recent US federal guidelines and now require researchers to be more transparent with survey participants regarding what will happen to the collected data. In this paper, we take the first steps toward considering the interact…

  • Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage

    Arthur Lupia, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2010•Cited by: 23•References: 14

    Some states treat a same-sex marriage as legally equal to a marriage between a man and a woman. Other states prohibit legal recognition of same-sex marriages in their constitutions. In every state that has a constitutional restriction against same-sex marriage, the amendment was passed by a popular vote. \n\nThe conventional wisdom about allowing voter participation in such decisions is that they yield constitutional outcomes that reflect attitud…

  • How “Point Blindness” Dilutes the Value of Stock Market Reports

    Arthur Lupia, Yanna Krupnikov et al.•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The stock index “point” is a focal component of financial news reports. Though many reports draw attention to point changes in major indices, few people realize that the value of a stock index “point” changes frequently. We call this perceptual phenomenon “point blindness.” We examine causes of point blindness and then propose alternate ways of reporting stock market information to counter it. The alternatives are easy to implement and can help c…

  • When Does Negativity Demobilize? Tracing the Conditional Effect of Negative Campaigning on Voter Turnout

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2011•Cited by: 64•References: 36

    Do negative campaign advertisements affect voter turnout? Existing literature on this topic has produced conflicting empirical results. Some scholars show that negativity is demobilizing. Others show that negativity is mobilizing. Still others show that negativity has no effect on turnout. Relying on the psychology of decision making, this research argues and shows that this empirical stalemate is due to the fact that existing work ignores a cruc…

  • Measuring Gubernatorial Budgetary Power: A New Approach

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Charles R Shipan et al.•ARTICLE•State Politics & Policy Quarterly•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 21

    Numerous scholars have considered the relationship between gubernatorial power and political outcomes. In fact, gubernatorial power has been used as a key explanatory factor in analyses of topics such as gubernatorial approval, divided government, regulation, and even individual political behavior. The key to these studies is the precision with which scholars can measure gubernatorial power and many such studies rely on the Formal Powers Index (F…

  • Negative Advertising and Voter Choice: The Role of Ads in Candidate Selection

    Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2012•Cited by: 13•References: 34

    Selecting between two candidates during a campaign is a crucial first step toward political involvement: an individual who does not select a preferred political candidate is unlikely to take political action. Can negative campaign ads help individuals make these electoral choices? Empirical evidence on this topic has been mixed. Some argue that negativity can increase the likelihood of choice. Others show that negativity will decrease the likelih…

  • Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Adam Seth Levine•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2014•Cited by: 96•References: 29

    Experimentation is an increasingly popular method among political scientists. While experiments are highly advantageous for creating internally valid conclusions, they are often criticized for being low on external validity. Critical to questions of external validity are the types of subjects who participate in a given experiment, with scholars typically arguing that samples of adults are more externally valid then student samples. Despite the vo…

  • New Appointments

    Open Access•Seden Akcinaroglu, Jeff Rey Arnold et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2014

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  • How Negativity Can Increase and Decrease Voter Turnout: The Effect of Timing

    Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2014•Cited by: 19•References: 51

    Negative ads dominate campaign communication, but scholars continue to disagree over the effects of negativity on voter turnout. While some studies show that negativity leads to a lower likelihood of turnout, others find precisely the opposite. In this article, I leverage the role of timing to unify findings that were heretofore perceived as largely conflicting. I use the same data to show that at a certain time exposure to negativity can be mobi…

  • The Relationship Between Campaign Negativity, Gender and Campaign Context

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Nichole M Bauer•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2014•Cited by: 99•References: 40

  • Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2015•Cited by: 67•References: 81

    Much of what we know about the responses of voters to Black candidates and female candidates comes from experimental research. Yet the accuracy of experimental data can be threatened by the possibility that social desirability pressures contaminate self‐reporting. We address this threat in a project that considers psychological approaches to reducing social desirability pressures. Offering participants the opportunity to explain their decisions a…

  • Accentuating the Negative: Candidate Race and Campaign Strategy

    Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2015•Cited by: 29•References: 67

    This article examines the impact of candidate race and campaign negativity on candidate evaluations and turnout. Unlike previous research, we argue that candidate race and campaign negativity should be considered simultaneously. In order to test this argument, we conduct a survey experiment of a nationally representative sample of White adults and a replication study. While we find, consistent with previous research, that respondents unfavorably …

  • Racial Prejudice, Partisanship, and White Turnout in Elections with Black Candidates

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2015•Cited by: 39•References: 39

  • Survey Experiments

    Yanna Krupnikov, Blake Findley et al.•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of Polling and…•2016

    In recent years more and more scholars have turned to survey experiments. These studies randomly assign treatments in a survey context, which allows a researcher to balance both internal and external validity considerations. Although survey experiments carry with them numerous benefits, these studies are not without their costs. Pivotal to the costs and benefits of survey experiments are the types of participants recruited to take part in a study…

  • Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

    Open Access•Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov•BOOK•Independent Politics•2016

    The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists are wrong, argue the authors. They show that many …

  • Social Desirability Bias in the 2016 Presidential Election

    Open Access•Samara Klar, Christel Weber et al.•ARTICLE•The Forum•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Partisanship is a stable trait but expressions of partisan preferences can vary according to social context. When particular preferences become socially undesirable, some individuals refrain from expressing them in public, even in relatively anonymous settings such as surveys and polls. In this study, we rely on the psychological trait of self-monitoring to show that Americans who are more likely to adjust their behaviors to comply with social no…

  • A Discussion of Dawn Langan Teele’s Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

    Open Access•Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2016

    Experimental approaches to political science research have become increasingly prominent in the discipline. Experimental research is regularly featured in some of the discipline’s top journals, and indeed in 2014 a new Journal of Experimental Political Science was created, published by Cambridge University Press. At the same time, there are disagreements among political scientists about the limits of experimental research, the ethical challenges …

  • The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice against Blacks

    Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2016•Cited by: 30•References: 39

    A good deal of scholarship examines the effects of prejudice against blacks on public opinion and vote choice in the United States. Despite producing valuable insights, this research largely ignores the attitudes of Latinos-a critical omission, since Latinos constitute a rapidly growing share of the population. Using two nationally representative survey data sets, we find that the level of racial prejudice is comparable for Latinos and non-Hispan…

  • Choice vs. Action: Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Decision Making

    Yanna Krupnikov, John Ryans•ARTICLE•Quarterly Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 5

    A rich literature argues that electoral incentives lead candidates to take ambiguous positions on issues. Furthermore, empirical research suggests that ambiguity does not repel — and may actually attract — voters. This work, however, equates choosing a candidate with paying the costs of voting for that candidate. We reconsider the relationship between candidate ambiguity and candidate preference moving beyond candidate choice and considering turn…

  • Apsa Active and Award Committees

    Open Access•David Lake, Rogers Smith et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017

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  • Who is Punished? Conditions Affecting Voter Evaluations of Legislators Who Do Not Compromise

    Open Access•Nichole M Bauer, Laurel Harbridge-Yong et al.•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2017•Cited by: 33•References: 54

  • Aiming at Doves: Experimental Evidence of Military Images’ Political Effects

    Open Access•Jonathan D Caverley, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017•Cited by: 16•References: 63

    Politicians (and journalists covering them) assume that association with the military has political consequences. We propose and experimentally test conditions under which military images have such effects. We presented subjects with images of the US president before varying backgrounds—including soldiers, students, children, and “ordinary” people. Only the image of soldiers has any significant effect, shifting participant preferences toward spen…

  • Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science

    Open Access•Emily Beaulieu, Amber E Boydstun et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Women know stuff. Yet, all too often, they are underrepresented in political science meetings, syllabi, and editorial boards. To counter the implicit bias that leads to women’s underrepresentation, to ensure that women’s expertise is included and shared, and to improve the visibility of women in political science, in February 2016 we launched the “Women Also Know Stuff” initiative, which features a crowd-sourced website and an active Twitter feed…

  • The effects of ambiguous rhetoric in congressional elections

    Open Access•Kerri Milita, Elizabeth N Simas et al.•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2017•Cited by: 21•References: 46

  • Misinformation and the Justification of Socially Undesirable Preferences

    Open Access•D J Flynn, Yanna Krupnikov•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Political…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    Attempts to correct political misperceptions often fail. The dominant theoretical explanation for this failure comes from psychological research on motivated reasoning. We identify a novel source of motivated reasoning in response to corrective information: the justification of socially undesirable preferences. Further, we demonstrate that this motivation can, under certain conditions, overpower the motivation to maintain congruence. Our empirica…

  • New Approaches to Method and Measurement in the Study of Political Communication Effects

    Yanna Krupnikov, Kathleen Searles•ARTICLE•Political Communication•2018•References: 17

    In 2008 Bennett and Iyengar (2008) called on us to rethink the relevance of existing theoretical paradigms amidst a rapidly changing communication environment. Building on this call, Holbert, Garre

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