A Tale of Two Elections: Changes in Candidates' Tweets During the 2022 Midterm Elections in Virginia

HK Evans, K Parton - Journal of Political Marketing, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research has shown that in congressional campaigns, incumbents behave very
differently than their challengers, especially on social media. The research that currently …

Pandemic messaging: Congressional communication and the mechanisms of polarizing rhetoric

T Gardner, A Russell - Congress & the Presidency, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
US senators are increasingly turning to Twitter to stoke partisan divisions, and it's not just
what they say, but rather how they say it. Senators spent the Spring of 2020 responding to …

Examining spread of emotional political content among Democratic and Republican candidates during the 2018 US mid-term elections

MJ Wang, K Yogeeswaran, S Sivaram… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
Previous research investigating the transmission of political messaging has primarily taken a
valence-based approach leaving it unclear how specific emotions influence the spread of …

Emotions and the status quo: The anti-incumbency bias in political prediction markets

VK Motahhar, TS Gruca, MH Tavakoli - International Journal of Forecasting, 2024 - Elsevier
Emotions are often associated with politics, with new research confirming this connection.
There is a link between negative emotions and political actions that oppose an incumbent …

Not ready to make nice: Congressional candidates' emotional appeals on Twitter

A Russell, HK Evans, B Gervais - Social Science Quarterly, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Congressional candidates use digital platforms to bolster and define their political
reputation, and political stalemates over inflation, reproductive rights, and the lasting impact …

Morality and partisan social media engagement: a natural language examination of moral political messaging and engagement during the 2018 US midterm elections

MJ Wang, K Yogeeswaran, K Nash… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Springer
Despite numerous studies examining the impact of moral vs. nonmoral political content on
social media engagement, the specifics of how distinct moral messaging captivates public …

[PDF][PDF] Tweets on the Political Left and Right: A Natural Language Examination of the Spread

MJ Wang - 2023 - ir.canterbury.ac.nz
Previous research investigating the spread of political messaging has primarily taken a
valence-based approach, leaving it unclear how specific moral or emotional content …

Essays on decision biases in prediction markets

VK Motahhar - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The future holds uncertainty. Predicting uncertain future events with great calibration opens
door to better decision making in different fields, eg, politics, medicine, psychology, etc. In …