Elizabeth C. Connors
Political Science PhD
Research
Book:
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Matthew T. Pietryka and John Barry Ryan. 2022. Examining Motivations in Interpersonal Communication Experiments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements in Experimental Political Science.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan, and Elizabeth C. Connors. 2024. “Selecting Out of ‘Politics’: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation.” American Political Science Review.
- Elizabeth C. Connors. 2024. “Party Foul: The Effectiveness of Political Value Rhetoric is Constrained by Party Ownership.” Political Behavior 46(2): 707-726.
- Elizabeth C. Connors. 2023.
“Social Desirability and Affective Polarization.”
Public Opinion Quarterly 87(4): 911-934.
- Earlier draft awarded American Political Science Association’s 2021 award for best paper in political psychology delivered at the 2020 meeting
- Partly funded by Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)
- Steven W. Webster, Elizabeth C. Connors, and Betsy Sinclair. 2022. “The Social Consequences of Political Anger.” The Journal of Politics 84(3): 1292-1305.
- Chandler Case*, Christopher Eddy*, Rahul Hemrajani*, Christopher Howell*, Daniel
Lyons*, Yu-Hsien Sung*, and Elizabeth C. Connors. 2022.
“The Effects of Source Cues and Issue Frames During COVID-19.”
Journal of Experimental Political Science 9(3): 369-378.
- Funded by University of South Carolina internal grant
- Elizabeth C. Connors. 2020.
“The Social Dimension of Political Values.”
Political Behavior 42(3): 961-982.
- Earlier draft awarded American Political Science Association’s 2018 John Sullivan Award for best paper delivered by a graduate student on an Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) panel at the 2017 meeting
- Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita, John Barry Ryan, and Elizabeth C. Connors. 2020. “How Gender Affects the Efficacy of Discussion as an Information Shortcut.” Political Science Research and Methods 8(2): 268-284.
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan. 2019.
“How Transparency Affects Survey Responses.”
Public Opinion Quarterly 83(S1): 185-209.
- Partly funded by Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)
Papers Under Review:
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Alessandro Del Ponte, and Peter DeScioli. “Indirect Restrictions Demobilize Supporters of Abortion Rights.” [revise and resubmit]
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Taylor Carlson, and Steven W. Webster. “You’re Making Us Look Bad: Can Partisan Embarrassment Dampen Partisanship and Polarization? Apparently Not.” [revise and resubmit]
- Elizabeth C. Connors and Christopher Howell*. “‘You Need to Calm Down’: Heated Tones Drive Aversion to Political Discussions.”
- Elizabeth C. Connors and John V. Kane. “No Pressure: A Method to Reduce Overreporting of Political Engagement.”
Select Working Papers:
- “‘Unfriending’: Polarization and Political Disagreement in Social Networks,” with Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov.
- “Trusting Refugees after Learning to Trust Borders,” with Tobias Heinrich, Yoshiharu Kobayashi, and Lauren Poupore**.
- Partly funded by the Institute for Humane Studies
- “The Femin[ist] Mystique: How Group Perceptions Shape Affect and Identity,” with Katelyn Stauffer.
- Partly funded by Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)
- “What’s Wrong with Being Confident? A Lot: How Confidence Shapes Political Interactions,” with Christopher Howell* and Taylor Carlson.
- “How Low Candidate Approval Affects Partisanship,” with Robert Bird, Samara Klar, and Yanna Krupnikov.
- “Revisiting the Link between Expected Election Outcomes and Turnout,” with Jacob A. Martin* and John Barry Ryan.
- “Trusted Sources: Why Social Influence Trumps Media Influence.”
- “Immigration Support: Does Immigrant Skill-Level Override the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Prejudice,” with Leonie Huddy, Stanley Feldman, and Romeo Gray*.
Other Select Work:
- Invited contributor to the Niskanen Center’s The Science of Politics podcast: “How Political Values and Social Influence Drive Polarization,” 2021.
- Elizabeth C. Connors. 2020. “Do Republicans Really Believe the Election was Stolen – Or Are They Just Saying That?” The Monkey Cage.
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Samara Klar, and Yanna Krupnikov. 2016. “There May Have Been Shy Trump Supporters After All.” The Monkey Cage.