PhD Student, Kathryn Howard has Article published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Congratulations to Kathryn Howard on having her article, “Could Your Candidate Shoot Someone on 5th Avenue and not Lose Votes? Identifying ‘Lines in the Sand’ in Ingroup Candidate Transgressions,” published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Study examines how “bad” a candidate has to be for someone to change their support of them.
“By creating this multi-trial design, we were able to determine that people tended to abandon favored candidates when they learned the candidate was involved in acts of theft over $10,000, and acts where an innocent person was physically harmed and required extensive treatment,” said Kathryn Howard, UIC doctoral candidate in psychology and lead author of the report.
Read the full UIC Today Article.
Modified on February 06, 2023