MPSA

Disc., Experiments Discussant Placeholder*,
Experiments Discussant Placeholder
cgrose@usc.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
38-21 New Approaches to Understanding Political
Attitudes and Behavior
Sat at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Steven Michael Sylvester, Utah Valley
University
ssylvester@uvu.edu
11:35 Reassessing the Structure of Presidential
Character
Scott Clifford, University of Houston
saclifford@uh.edu
11:45 Socially Desirability Scales and Voter Turnout
Overreports
Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
icuevasm@polsci.umass.edu
11:56 Risk Attitudes, Perception, and Risky Choice in
Referenda
Céline Colombo, University of Zurich-Switzerland
colombo@ipz.uzh.ch
Marco Steenbergen, University of Zurich
steenbergen@ipz.uzh.ch
Tomasz Siczek*
siczek@ipz.uzh.ch
12:07 Democracy Misunderstood: Authoritarian
Understandings of Democracy Around the Globe
Christian Peter Welzel*, University of California-
Irvine
cwelzel@gmail.com
Helen Kirsch*, London School of Economics and
Political Science
H.Kirsch@lse.ac.uk
12:18 The Effect of Complex Political Debates on
Attitude Strength
Andrew Harold Tyner, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
atyner@live.unc.edu
12:29 Disc., Steven Michael Sylvester, Utah Valley
University
ssylvester@uvu.edu
Disc., Tiffany C. Davenport, United States Naval
Academy
tdavenpo@usna.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
38-22 Understanding Political Knowledge
Sat at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, William G. Jacoby, Michigan State
University
jacoby@msu.edu
11:35 A Little Bit of Knowledge: Facebook’s News Feed
and Self-Perceptions of Knowledge
Nicolas Anspach, York College-Pennsylvania
nanspach@ycp.edu
Jay Thomas Jennings, University of Texas-Austin
jay.jennings@temple.edu
Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University
kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu
11:45 Informed, But Not Simply Informed: The Varying
Levels of Political Information Efficacy
Younei Soe, Indiana University-Bloomington
ysoe@umail.iu.edu
11:56 Knowledge Hubris and Humility: A Theory of the
Antecedents of (In)Accurate Self-Knowledge
Assessments and Their Role in the Policy Process
Creed C. Tumlison, University of Arkansas
ctumliso@uark.edu
12:07 Known Unknowns?: Self-Reported Political
Interest and Domains of Political Knowledge
Stephen N Goggin, San Diego State University
goggin@berkeley.edu
Douglas James Ahler, Vanderbilt University
douglas.j.ahler@vanderbilt.edu
12:18 Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender
Gap in Political Sophistication
Patrick Willi Kraft, Stony Brook University
kraft.pw@gmail.com
12:29 Disc., William G. Jacoby, Michigan State University
jacoby@msu.edu
Disc., David J. Ciuk, Franklin and Marshall College
dciuk@fandm.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
42-16 Linking Officials and Constituents via ICT
Sat at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Quinn M Albaugh, Princeton University
qalbaugh@princeton.edu
11:35 Congressional Use of Twitter
Kaitlyn Sill, Pacific Lutheran University
sillkl@plu.edu
Stella Rouse*, University of Maryland-College Park
srouse@umd.edu
Emily Metzgar*, Indiana University-Bloomington
emetzgar@indiana.edu
11:45 Death of a Trustee: An Examination of
Traditional Legislator Roles in an Era of
Increased Legislator-Constituent Linkages
Precipitated by Internet Enabled Communication
Technologies
Joe Franklin West, University of North Carolina-
Pembroke
joe.west@uncp.edu
11:56 Constituent Communications in a New
Technological Era: Congressional E-Newsletters
Andrew J. Janusz, University of California-San
Diego
ajanusz@ucsd.edu
John Seungmin Kuk, University of California-San
Diego
jskuk@ucsd.edu
Nazita Lajevardi, University of California-San
Diego
nlajevar@ucsd.edu
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