Foreign Policy and Threat Sensitivity in the 2018 US Election

• In Event: Individual Differences Beyond the Big 5

Brief Overview

We study how foreign policy threats affect public opinion during the 2018 US election. Further, we examine whether these effects are primarily predicted by issue ownership, or individual factors such as partisanship or threat sensitivity.

Authors

• Hannah Kim, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Brianna Smith, US Naval Academy