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, forthcoming.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- Steven W. Webster, Elizabeth C. Connors, and Betsy Sinclair. 2022. “The Social Consequences of Political Anger.” The Journal of Politics.
- Chandler Case*, Christopher Eddy*, Rahul Hemrajani*, Christopher Howell*, Daniel
Lyons*, Yu-Hsien Sung*, and Elizabeth C. Connors. 2021. “The Effects of Source Cues and Issue Frames During COVID-19.”
Journal of Experimental Political Science.
- Funded by University of South Carolina internal grant
- Elizabeth C. Connors. 2020.
“The Social Dimension of Political Values.”
Political Behavior.
- 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.
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan. 2019. “How Transparency Affects Survey Responses.”
Public Opinion Quarterly.
- Partly funded by Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
Papers Under Review:
- Elizabeth C. Connors. “Party Foul: The Effectiveness of Political Value Rhetoric is Constrained by Party Ownership.” [revise and resubmit]
- Eric Groenendyk, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan, and Elizabeth C. Connors. “Selecting Out of ‘Politics’: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation.” [revise and resubmit]
- Elizabeth C. Connors.
“Social Desirability and Affective Polarization.”
- Partly funded by Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
- Earlier draft awarded American Political Science Association’s 2021 Best Paper Award for best paper in political psychology delivered at the 2020 meeting
- Elizabeth C. Connors and Christopher Howell*. “‘You Need to Calm Down’: How Tone Shapes Political Discussion.”
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Jacob A. Martin*, and John Barry Ryan. “Revisiting the Link between Expected Election Outcomes and Turnout.”
Select Working Papers:
- “How Low Candidate Approval Affects Partisanship,” with Robert Bird, Samara Klar, and Yanna Krupnikov.
- “Immigration Support: Does Immigrant Skill-Level Override the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Prejudice,” with Leonie Huddy, Stanley Feldman, and Romeo Gray*.
- “Trusted Sources: Why Social Influence Trumps Media Influence.”
- “You’re Making Us Look Bad: Party Embarrassment, Polarization, and Partisanship in American Politics,” with Taylor Carlson and Steven W. Webster.
- “What’s Wrong with Being Confident? A Lot: How Confidence Shapes Political Interactions,” with Christopher Howell*.
- “Identifying and Solving Bias in Measures of Civic Engagement,” with John V. Kane.
- “The Femin[ist] Mystique: How Group Perceptions Shape Affect and Identity,” with Katelyn Stauffer.
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.
- Yanna Krupnikov and Elizabeth C. Connors. 2018. “Negative Campaigns: Are They Good for American Democracy?” in New Directions in Media and Politics, 2nd Edition, Ridout, ed. Routledge.
- Elizabeth C. Connors, Samara Klar, and Yanna Krupnikov. 2016. “There May Have Been Shy Trump Supporters After All.” The Monkey Cage.