Emotional Expectations for the Status and Race of Politicians

• In Event: Evaluating Leaders and Their Rhetoric

Brief Overview

Using an experimental design, this research examines how individuals attribute blame and emotions to politicians based on status and racial cues when responsibility for a problem is ambiguous.

Authors

• Antoine Jevon Banks, University of Maryland-College Park

• Woohyeon Kim, University of Maryland-College Park

• Jessica Reese, University of Maryland

• Jordan Spencer, University of Maryland

• Ismail K. White, George Washington University