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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.