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Ted Brader
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 39
Citations - 4243
Ted Brader is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Public opinion. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 39 publications receiving 3657 citations.
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What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat
TL;DR: The authors found that news about the costs of immigration boosted white opposition far more when Latino immigrants, rather than European immigrants, were featured, and that group cues influence opinion and political action by triggering emotions not simply by changing beliefs about the severity of the immigration problem.
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Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions
TL;DR: For example, this article used two experiments conducted during an actual election to show that cueing enthusiasm motivates participation and activates existing loyalties; cueing fear stimulates vigilance, increases reliance on contemporary evaluations, and facilitates persuasion.
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Election Night’s Alright for Fighting: The Role of Emotions in Political Participation
TL;DR: This article found evidence for the distinctive influence of anger in a randomized experiment, a national survey of the 2008 electorate, and in pooled American National Election Studies from 1980 to 2004, finding that anger, more than anxiety or enthusiasm, will mobilize.
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Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work
TL;DR: Brader's "Campaigning for Hearts and Minds" as discussed by the authors survey of emotional appeals in contemporary political campaigns reveals that politically informed citizens are more easily manipulated by emotional appeals than less-involved citizens and that positive "enthusiasm ads" are in fact more polarizing than negative "fear ads."
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Immigration opposition among U.S. whites: General ethnocentrism or media priming of attitudes about latinos?
TL;DR: This paper found that while general ethnocentrism dominates economic concerns in explanations of Whites' immigration policy opinions, attitudes toward Latinos in particular account for nearly all of the impact of ethnocentricism since 1994, suggesting the media shaping of policy opinion around this group may be driven by realworld demographic patterns.