Reluctant Partisans, not Undercover Partisans: Why Americans Increasingly Identify as Independent
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Paper examining why Americans identify as Independents rather than partisans
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Working Papers
Good Sports and Sore Losers: How Watching Sports Increases Acceptance of Election Losses
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Paper showing how legitimating rituals increase acceptance of election defeats
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Watching Sports Causes People see Group Relationships as Zero-sum Competitions
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Paper examining how people use sports as a heuristic to interpret the nature of group relationships
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Field of (American) Dreams: Sports and Belief in Meritocracy
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Paper examining the relationship between watching sports and seeing America as meritocratic
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