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Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States (2023)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. (2023). Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2023.2261450

Holding multiple elections simultaneously, also known as concurrent elections, is well known to benefit electoral systems by increasing the rate of voter turnout. Essentially, the public becomes more willing to participate in voting because they can... Read More about Crowded Out: The Effects of Concurrent Elections on Political Engagement, Candidate Evaluation, and Campaign Learning in the United States.

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.

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.

Pay Rates and Subject Performance in Social Science Experiments Using Crowdsourced Online Samples (2018)
Journal Article
Andersen, D. J., & Lau, R. R. (2018). Pay Rates and Subject Performance in Social Science Experiments Using Crowdsourced Online Samples. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 5(3), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1017/xps.2018.7

Mechanical Turk has become an important source of subjects for social science experiments, providing a low-cost alternative to the convenience of using undergraduates while avoiding the expense of drawing fully representative samples. However, we kno... Read More about Pay Rates and Subject Performance in Social Science Experiments Using Crowdsourced Online Samples.

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.

Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization (2016)
Journal Article
Lau, R. R., Andersen, D. J., Ditonto, T. M., Kleinberg, M. S., & Redlawsk, D. P. (2017). Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization. Political Behavior, 39(1), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-016-9354-8

This paper examines the effects of our modern media environment on affective polarization. We conducted an experiment during the last month of the 2012 presidential election varying both the choice of media sources available about the major president... Read More about Effect of Media Environment Diversity and Advertising Tone on Information Search, Selective Exposure, and Affective Polarization.