The Effects of Threat Sensitivity and Issue Concern on Candidate Choice

• In Event: The Psychology of Candidate Evaluation

Brief Overview

We find that threat sensitivity increases foreign policy concern regardless of the specific issue or its ownership, and independent of partisanship or ideology using evidence from an observational and an experimental survey during the US election.

Authors

• Hannah Kim, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Brianna Alesia Smith, United States Naval Academy