Research

Publications

Racial Rhetoric in Black and White: Symbolic References in U.S. House Speeches. (with Matthew Hayes) (Forthcoming, Journal of Politics)
Seeing Racial Avoidance on City Streets. (with Melissa Sands) (Forthcoming, Nature: Human Behaviour)
Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking about Citizenship on the US Census. (with Matthew A. Baum, Maya Sen, and Rebecca Goldstein), 2022, Journal of Politics 84(3): 1869-1873.

Finding Fauci: How Visual and Textual Information Varied on Cable News Networks During the Covid-19 Pandemic. (with Hyein Ko), 2022, Computational Communications Research 4(1): 135-172.
Gender, Language, and Representation in the U.S. Senate. (with Leah Windsor, Sara Mitchell, Tracy Osborn, and Andrew J. Hampton), 2022, Journal of Language and Politics 21(6):919-943.
Race and Symbolic Politics in the U.S. Congress. (with Matthew Hayes), 2022, PS: Political Science & Politics 55(2):281-283.
Using Motion Detection to Measure Social Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives., 2021, Political Analysis 29(2): 250-259.

Pitch Perfect: Vocal Pitch and the Emotional Intensity of Congressional Speech on Women. (with Matt Hayes and Diana O'Brien), 2019, American Political Science Review 113(4): 941-962.

Emotional Arousal Predicts Votes on the Supreme Court. (with Ryan D. Enos and Maya Sen), 2019, Political Analysis 27(2): 237-243.

Vocal Pattern Detection of Depression among Older Adults. (with Marianne Smith, Er-wei Bai, and H. Jeremy Bockholt), 2019, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 29(3): 440–449.
Contextual Determinants of Observed Negative Emotional States in Police-Community Interactions. (with David A. Makin, Dale W. Willits, Wendy Koslicki, Rachael Brooks, and Rachel L. Bailey), 2019, Criminal Justice and Behavior 46(2): 301-318.
Geovisual Text Analytics for Exploring Spatiotemporal Variation in Public Discourse on Twitter. (with Caglar Koylu and Ryan L. Larson), 2019, Cartography and Geographic Information Science 46(1): 57-71.
When Candidates Debate, Does Social Media Listen? (with Courtney Juelich), 2018, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 28(2): 208-224.
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions among U.S. State Legislators (with Scott Lasley, Jeffery J. Mondak, Megan L. Remmel and Joel Turner), 2012, Political Psychology 33(2):179-306.

Is There Anybody Out There? C-SPAN and the Distribution of Desirable Speech Time (with Jielu Yao) In Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning, ed. Purdue University Press, 2019.
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, What is a Video Worth? In Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning, ed. Purdue University Press, 2015.

Assessing Affective Polarization Using the Text, Audio, and Video from In-Person, Telephone and Online Interviews. (with Jeff Mondak and Tarah Williams) (Under Review)
You've Got to Know When to Fold Them: Reassessing Bluffing, Resolve, and Reputation in Politics. (with Matthew A. Baum and Phil Potter) (Under Review)
Natural language processing meets spatial time series analysis and geovisualization: Identifying and visualizing spatio-topical sentiment trends on Twitter. (with Caglar Koylu and Hoeyun Kwon) (Under Review)

This Floor Speech Will Be Televised: Understanding the Factors that Influence When and Where Floor Speeches Appear on Cable Television. (with Dan Schultz and Tracey Jaquith)
Seeing is Believing: How Video of Police Action Affects Criminal Justice Beliefs. (with Paul Testa)
Gender Dynamics in Elite Political Contexts: Evidence from Supreme Court Oral Arguments. (with Ryan D. Enos and Maya Sen)
Estimating the Duplicate Voting Rate in the United States. (with Matthew A. Baum, Ryan Enos, David Lazer, Margaret Schwenzfeier, and Maya Sen)
Do Oral Arguments Influence the Language of Majority Opinions? (with Maya Sen)