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Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Kyle Peyton; Gregory Huber, 2021, "Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/8MYU2C, Yale Dataverse, V2 Political scientists regularly measure anti-Black prejudice in the survey context using racial resentment, an indirect measure that blends racial animus with traditional moral values. Explicit prejudice, a direct measure based in beliefs about the group-level inferiority of Blacks, is used less frequently. We investigate whether these attitudes pre...
Changes in Candidate Evaluations over the Campaign Season: A Comparison of House, Senate, and Presidential Races Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Patrick Tucker; Steven Smith, 2021, "Changes in Candidate Evaluations over the Campaign Season: A Comparison of House, Senate, and Presidential Races", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/9GFOMD, Yale Dataverse, V2 How do citizens’ preferences for candidates change during a campaign season? For the first time, this panel study examines how citizens’ preferences for candidates change during the general election campaign season for House, Senate, and presidential elections, which vary widely in their salience and contestedness. House races exhibit the greatest...
The Small Effects of Political Advertising are Small Regardless of Context, Message, Sender, or Receiver: Evidence From 59 Real-time Randomized Experiments Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Alexander Coppock; Seth J. Hill; Lynn Vavreck, 2021, "The Small Effects of Political Advertising are Small Regardless of Context, Message, Sender, or Receiver: Evidence From 59 Real-time Randomized Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/OGTYGY, Yale Dataverse, V2 Evidence across social science indicates that average effects of persuasive messages are small. One commonly offered explanation for these small effects is heterogeneity: Persuasion may only work well in specific circumstances. To evaluate heterogeneity, we repeated an experiment weekly in real time using 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign ad...
Exploiting Donald Trump: Using Candidates' Positions to Assess Ideological Voting in the 2016 and 2008 Presidential Elections Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Andrew Gooch; Gregory Huber, 2021, "Exploiting Donald Trump: Using Candidates' Positions to Assess Ideological Voting in the 2016 and 2008 Presidential Elections", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/81ANUO, Yale Dataverse, V2 Testing theories of how candidate positions affect voting is often complicated by the strong correlation between candidate partisanship and candidate positions. We take advantage of Donald Trump's unusual candidacy to understand how candidates who depart from standard party positions affect perceptions of ideology and voting. We show in both 2016 a...
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Graeme Blair; Alexander Coppock; Maggie Moor, 2021, "When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ZXTHHI, Yale Dataverse, V2 Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as social desirability bias, a subset of what we label sensitivity bias. We make three contributions. First, we propose a social reference theory of sensitivity bias...
Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence from a New Replication Experiment Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Alan S. Gerber; Gregory Huber; Al Fang, 2020, "Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence from a New Replication Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/0GBEGJ, Yale Dataverse, V2 An ongoing debate in political psychology is about whether small wording differences have outsized behavioral effects. A leading example is whether subtle linguistic cues embedded in voter mobilization messages dramatically increase turnout. An initial study analyzing two small-scale field experiments argued that describing someone as a voter (noun...
Japanese Public Opinion, Political Persuasion, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Jonathon Baron; Rebecca Davis Gibbons; Stephen Herzog, 2020, "Japanese Public Opinion, Political Persuasion, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/PR9GPK, Yale Dataverse, V2 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) poses a challenge to decades of Japanese nuclear policy. While Japan has relied on the US nuclear umbrella since the aftermath of World War II, numerous pro-disarmament groups—including the Hibakusha—are calling for Tokyo to join the Treaty. We contribute to these discussions with a new nation...
Can the Backlash Against Voter ID Laws Activate Minority Voters? Experimental Evidence Examining Voter Mobilization Through Psychological Reactance Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Daniel Biggers, 2019, "Can the Backlash Against Voter ID Laws Activate Minority Voters? Experimental Evidence Examining Voter Mobilization Through Psychological Reactance", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/PISPXJ, Yale Dataverse, V2 Research on the participatory consequences of electoral reforms that increase voting costs largely ignores how the perception that those efforts’ purpose is to disenfranchise certain individuals may affect turnout. Leveraging psychological reactance theory, I test whether invoking that perception activates African Americans (who disproportionately...
A Field Experiment on Community Policing and Police Legitimacy Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Kyle Peyton; Michael Sierra-Arevalo; David Rand, 2023, "A Field Experiment on Community Policing and Police Legitimacy", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/NLOXOG, Yale Dataverse, V2 Replication data and statistical code for the results reported in the paper "Community Policing and Police Legitimacy: A Field Experiment".
A Note on Dropping Experimental Subjects who Fail a Manipulation Check Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive Peter Aronow; Jonathon Baron; Lauren Pinson, 2018, "A Note on Dropping Experimental Subjects who Fail a Manipulation Check", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/7CA88G, Yale Dataverse, V2 Dropping subjects after a post-treatment manipulation check is common practice across the social sciences, presumably to restrict estimates to a subpopulation of subjects who understand the experimental prompt. We show that this practice can lead to serious bias and argue for a focus on what is revealed without discarding subjects. Generalizing res...

Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination