We introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences special issue on Psychophysiology, Cognition, and... more We introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences special issue on Psychophysiology, Cognition, and Political Differences. This issue represents the second special issue funded by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences that adheres to the Open Science Framework for registered reports (RR). Here pre-analysis plans (PAPs) are peer-reviewed and given in-principle acceptance (IPA) prior to data being collected and/or analyzed, and are published contingent upon the preregistration of the study being followed as proposed. Bound by a common theme of the importance of incorporating psychophysiological perspectives into the study of politics, broadly defined, the articles in this special issue feature a unique set of research questions and methodologies. In the following, we summarize the findings, discuss the innovations produced by this research, and highlight the importance of open science for the future of political science research.
Abstract: The smiles of politicians are considered a key component of their success, allowing the... more Abstract: The smiles of politicians are considered a key component of their success, allowing them to nonverbally connect with potential voters and strengthen their connection with supporters. Smiles, however, are not unitary displays; they are multifaceted and variant in their intent and what they can accomplish due to variations in the way they may be displayed, as well as within the context they occur. With this in mind, this study expands upon the groundbreaking work on facial display behavior carried out by the Dartmouth ...
Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th annivers... more Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the annual meeting on the picturesque campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The event was highlighted not only by a keynote address from Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom but also featured several roundtables comprised of those most responsible for the establishment and growth of APLS over the past three decades. This Founders' Forum likewise celebrates 30 years of the journal's publication ...
Abstract: While a number of attempts have been made to document the relative importance of differ... more Abstract: While a number of attempts have been made to document the relative importance of different elements within political parties in the presidential nomination process (Cohen et al. 2008; Dowdle et al. 2009), the role of party activists has been difficult to track. As a first attempt in measuring their patterns of support, we examine the role of individual donors who contribute to multiple candidates during the pre-primary stages of the presidential nomination process. These multiple donors can be examined using network analysis and ...
Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, 2015
The smiles and affiliative expressions of presidential candidates are important for political suc... more The smiles and affiliative expressions of presidential candidates are important for political success, allowing contenders to nonverbally connect with potential supporters and bond with followers. Smiles, however, are not unitary displays; they are multifaceted in composition and signaling intent due to variations in performance. With this in mind, we examine the composition and perception of smiling behavior by Republican presidential candidates during the 2012 preprimary period. In this paper we review literature concerning different smile types and the muscular movements that compose them from a biobehavioral perspective. We then analyze smiles expressed by Republican presidential candidates early in the 2012 primary season by coding facial muscle activity at the microlevel using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to produce an inventory of politically relevant smile types. To validate the subtle observed differences between smile types, we show viewers a series of short vide...
ABSTRACT Increasingly there is an appreciation for face-to-face relationships in workplace intera... more ABSTRACT Increasingly there is an appreciation for face-to-face relationships in workplace interactions, and concomitantly emotion encoding and decoding. However, little research has considered how facial displays of emotion are interpreted based upon the poser's workplace status and the influence of their sex. To consider this, this article first reviews literature pertaining to facial displays of emotion and their function in supervisor-subordinate workplace interactions as well as expectations for men and women. We then test these expectations through an experiment asking respondents to identify the emotion posed by individuals defined as holding different positions of varying status within a small public sector work unit before concluding by discussing theoretical and workplace implications.
Abstract In this article, we explore the possibility that Supreme Court oral argument matters, bu... more Abstract In this article, we explore the possibility that Supreme Court oral argument matters, but not in the conventional sense. Instead of oral argument serving as a means for counsel to convince justices of their position, we posit that justices use oral argument to convince their brethren of their own views of the case under consideration. Accordingly, we hypothesize that justices will more readily interrupt and question counsel for the side with which they disagree, to counter counsels' arguments and illuminate points that favor their ...
The third generation of agricultural biotechnology looms large as plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMP... more The third generation of agricultural biotechnology looms large as plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMPs) and plant-made indus- trial products (PMIPs) both promise new, cheaper, and more plentiful pharmaceutical drugs and industrial products, such as plastics, cosmetics, enzymes, and epoxies. At the same time, they threaten the US food supply through adventitious presence (e.g., inadvertent mixing) of PMPs/PMIPs with the traditional food supply—a
After 15 years of promise, the new agricultural biotechnology is now being planted in farmers’fie... more After 15 years of promise, the new agricultural biotechnology is now being planted in farmers’fields and is found in America’s food supply. Taken together with the promise of reduced pesticide use and the resulting healthier environment, the adoption and proper management of this technology, as well as public acceptance of it, is highly important for its continued use. This article
Abstract In fundraising, potential candidates who do not collect sizable amounts of “early money”... more Abstract In fundraising, potential candidates who do not collect sizable amounts of “early money” may be effectively eliminated even before the start of the Iowa Caucus. This winnowing raises concern about the impact money has on narrowing the field of candidates from whom voters can choose. To better grasp patterns of successful fundraising, we explore where candidates obtain funds during the preprimary and primary periods. We use individual contributions data from the Federal Election Commission during the preprimary ...
Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th annivers... more Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the annual meeting on the picturesque campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The event was highlighted not only by a keynote address from Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom but also featured several roundtables comprised of those most responsible for the establishment and growth of APLS over the past three decades. This Founders' Forum likewise celebrates 30 years of the journal's publication ...
We introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences special issue on Psychophysiology, Cognition, and... more We introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences special issue on Psychophysiology, Cognition, and Political Differences. This issue represents the second special issue funded by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences that adheres to the Open Science Framework for registered reports (RR). Here pre-analysis plans (PAPs) are peer-reviewed and given in-principle acceptance (IPA) prior to data being collected and/or analyzed, and are published contingent upon the preregistration of the study being followed as proposed. Bound by a common theme of the importance of incorporating psychophysiological perspectives into the study of politics, broadly defined, the articles in this special issue feature a unique set of research questions and methodologies. In the following, we summarize the findings, discuss the innovations produced by this research, and highlight the importance of open science for the future of political science research.
Abstract: The smiles of politicians are considered a key component of their success, allowing the... more Abstract: The smiles of politicians are considered a key component of their success, allowing them to nonverbally connect with potential voters and strengthen their connection with supporters. Smiles, however, are not unitary displays; they are multifaceted and variant in their intent and what they can accomplish due to variations in the way they may be displayed, as well as within the context they occur. With this in mind, this study expands upon the groundbreaking work on facial display behavior carried out by the Dartmouth ...
Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th annivers... more Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the annual meeting on the picturesque campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The event was highlighted not only by a keynote address from Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom but also featured several roundtables comprised of those most responsible for the establishment and growth of APLS over the past three decades. This Founders' Forum likewise celebrates 30 years of the journal's publication ...
Abstract: While a number of attempts have been made to document the relative importance of differ... more Abstract: While a number of attempts have been made to document the relative importance of different elements within political parties in the presidential nomination process (Cohen et al. 2008; Dowdle et al. 2009), the role of party activists has been difficult to track. As a first attempt in measuring their patterns of support, we examine the role of individual donors who contribute to multiple candidates during the pre-primary stages of the presidential nomination process. These multiple donors can be examined using network analysis and ...
Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, 2015
The smiles and affiliative expressions of presidential candidates are important for political suc... more The smiles and affiliative expressions of presidential candidates are important for political success, allowing contenders to nonverbally connect with potential supporters and bond with followers. Smiles, however, are not unitary displays; they are multifaceted in composition and signaling intent due to variations in performance. With this in mind, we examine the composition and perception of smiling behavior by Republican presidential candidates during the 2012 preprimary period. In this paper we review literature concerning different smile types and the muscular movements that compose them from a biobehavioral perspective. We then analyze smiles expressed by Republican presidential candidates early in the 2012 primary season by coding facial muscle activity at the microlevel using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to produce an inventory of politically relevant smile types. To validate the subtle observed differences between smile types, we show viewers a series of short vide...
ABSTRACT Increasingly there is an appreciation for face-to-face relationships in workplace intera... more ABSTRACT Increasingly there is an appreciation for face-to-face relationships in workplace interactions, and concomitantly emotion encoding and decoding. However, little research has considered how facial displays of emotion are interpreted based upon the poser's workplace status and the influence of their sex. To consider this, this article first reviews literature pertaining to facial displays of emotion and their function in supervisor-subordinate workplace interactions as well as expectations for men and women. We then test these expectations through an experiment asking respondents to identify the emotion posed by individuals defined as holding different positions of varying status within a small public sector work unit before concluding by discussing theoretical and workplace implications.
Abstract In this article, we explore the possibility that Supreme Court oral argument matters, bu... more Abstract In this article, we explore the possibility that Supreme Court oral argument matters, but not in the conventional sense. Instead of oral argument serving as a means for counsel to convince justices of their position, we posit that justices use oral argument to convince their brethren of their own views of the case under consideration. Accordingly, we hypothesize that justices will more readily interrupt and question counsel for the side with which they disagree, to counter counsels' arguments and illuminate points that favor their ...
The third generation of agricultural biotechnology looms large as plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMP... more The third generation of agricultural biotechnology looms large as plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMPs) and plant-made indus- trial products (PMIPs) both promise new, cheaper, and more plentiful pharmaceutical drugs and industrial products, such as plastics, cosmetics, enzymes, and epoxies. At the same time, they threaten the US food supply through adventitious presence (e.g., inadvertent mixing) of PMPs/PMIPs with the traditional food supply—a
After 15 years of promise, the new agricultural biotechnology is now being planted in farmers’fie... more After 15 years of promise, the new agricultural biotechnology is now being planted in farmers’fields and is found in America’s food supply. Taken together with the promise of reduced pesticide use and the resulting healthier environment, the adoption and proper management of this technology, as well as public acceptance of it, is highly important for its continued use. This article
Abstract In fundraising, potential candidates who do not collect sizable amounts of “early money”... more Abstract In fundraising, potential candidates who do not collect sizable amounts of “early money” may be effectively eliminated even before the start of the Iowa Caucus. This winnowing raises concern about the impact money has on narrowing the field of candidates from whom voters can choose. To better grasp patterns of successful fundraising, we explore where candidates obtain funds during the preprimary and primary periods. We use individual contributions data from the Federal Election Commission during the preprimary ...
Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th annivers... more Last fall, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the annual meeting on the picturesque campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The event was highlighted not only by a keynote address from Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom but also featured several roundtables comprised of those most responsible for the establishment and growth of APLS over the past three decades. This Founders' Forum likewise celebrates 30 years of the journal's publication ...
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