Outputs (17)

Beyond the Presidency, 2016: Women Candidates in Down-Ballot Races (2020)
Book Chapter
Ditonto, T., & Andersen, D. (2020). Beyond the Presidency, 2016: Women Candidates in Down-Ballot Races. In N. Bauer (Ed.), Politicking While Female: The Political Lives of Women (115-136). LSU Press

Politicking While Female traces the challenges and opportunities that shape the experiences of women who pursue and hold positions of political leadership in the United States. In this volume, Nichole M. Bauer gathers new essays studying the forces t... Read More about Beyond the Presidency, 2016: Women Candidates in Down-Ballot Races.

The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference Over Time: A Multi-day Study of Voter Decision-Making (2020)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. J., & DiTonto, T. (2020). The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference Over Time: A Multi-day Study of Voter Decision-Making. Journal of Politics, 82(4), 1337-1353. https://doi.org/10.1086/708340

Women often face challenges when running for political office, but precisely when and how candidate sex affects voter decision making is unclear. Using a unique multiday, high-information experiment, we examine how the presence of women candidates in... Read More about The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference Over Time: A Multi-day Study of Voter Decision-Making.

Voting and Gender (2019)
Book Chapter
Ditonto, T. (in press). Voting and Gender. In K. Nadal (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender. SAGE Publications

Direct and indirect effects of prejudice: sexism, information, and voting behavior in political campaigns (2019)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T. (2019). Direct and indirect effects of prejudice: sexism, information, and voting behavior in political campaigns. Politics, Groups and Identities, 7(3), 590-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2019.1632065

This paper examines the effects of gender-based prejudice on candidate evaluation and voting behavior. It uses a unique experimental design to test for direct effects of sexism on candidate evaluation and voting behavior, as well as indirect effects... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of prejudice: sexism, information, and voting behavior in political campaigns.

The Mediating Role of Information Search in the Relationship Between Prejudice and Voting Behavior (2019)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T. (2020). The Mediating Role of Information Search in the Relationship Between Prejudice and Voting Behavior. Political Psychology, 41(1), 71-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12599

Evidence on the extent to which prejudice serves as a barrier to black and Latino candidates for office is mixed. Some research has found that black and Latino candidates are disadvantaged in terms of their chances of winning election and that they a... Read More about The Mediating Role of Information Search in the Relationship Between Prejudice and Voting Behavior.

Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching (2019)
Journal Article
Peterson, D. A., Biederman, L. A., Andersen, D., Ditonto, T. M., & Roe, K. (2019). Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0216241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216241

Student evaluations of teaching are widely believed to contain gender bias. In this study, we conduct a randomized experiment with the student evaluations of teaching in four classes with large enrollments, two taught by male instructors and two taug... Read More about Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching.

(Working Toward) Affective Transfer in the Real World (2018)
Book Chapter
Ditonto, T., & Lau, R. R. (2018). (Working Toward) Affective Transfer in the Real World. In H. Lavine, & C. Taber (Eds.), The Feeling, Thinking Citizen: Essays in Honor of Milton Lodge. Routledge

Differences in Appearance-Based Trait Inferences for Male and Female Political Candidates (2018)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T., & Mattes, K. (2018). Differences in Appearance-Based Trait Inferences for Male and Female Political Candidates. Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 39(4), 430-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477x.2018.1506206

Studies show that automatic trait inferences can predict outcomes of actual elections, but these studies generally include male candidates only. Substantial evidence also shows that female candidates are subject to gender-based stereotypes, which can... Read More about Differences in Appearance-Based Trait Inferences for Male and Female Political Candidates.

Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments (2018)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. J., & Ditonto, T. (2018). Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments. Political Analysis, 26(4), 379-398. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.21

This article examines how the presentation of information during a laboratory experiment can alter a study’s findings. We compare four possible ways to present information about hypothetical candidates in a laboratory experiment. First, we manipulate... Read More about Information and its Presentation: Treatment Effects in Low-Information vs. High-Information Experiments.

Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections (2018)
Journal Article
Ditonto, T., & Andersen, D. J. (2018). Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections. Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, 39(3), 257-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477x.2018.1475790

Most research on evaluations of women candidates considers single elections in isolation. Using two Dynamic Process Tracing experiments, this article examines whether voters alter their evaluations of women candidates, as well as their willingness to... Read More about Two’s a Crowd: Women Candidates in Concurrent Elections.