Research > Political Behavior & Psychology

These papers explore issues in the behavior and psychology of citizens (e.g., disgust sensitivity, personality traits, asymmetric responsiveness, and voting behavior) and legislators (e.g., decision making biases, personality, and representative behavior). Published research is listed (beginning with the most recent) below.

• Gavin Ploger, Patrick Fournier, Johanna Dunaway and Stuart Soroka. 2021. “The Psychophysiological Correlates of Cognitive Dissonance,” Politics and the Life Sciences 40(2): 202-212.

• Patrick Fournier, Michael Bang Petersen and Stuart Soroka. 2021. “The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity,” Electoral Studies 72: 102347.

• Patrick Fournier, Stuart Soroka and Lilach Nir. 2020. “Negativity Biases and Political Ideology: A Comparative Test Across 17 Countries,” American Political Science Review 114 (3): 775-791.

• Arthur Lupia, Stuart Soroka and Alison Beatty. 2020. “What does Congress want from the National Science Foundation? A content analysis of remarks from 1995 to 2018,” Science Advances 6(33): eaaz6300.

• Elin Naurin, Stuart Soroka and Niels Markwat. 2019. “Asymmetric Accountability: An Experimental Investigation of Biases in Evaluations of Governments’ Election Pledges,” Comparative Political Studies 52(13-14): 2207–2234.

• Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler and Stuart Soroka. 2019. “Who Responds to Election Campaigns? Pp. 129-168 in Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters, Peter Loewen and Daniel Rubenson, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

• Jeroen Joly, Stuart Soroka and Peter Loewen. 2019. “Nice Guys Finish Last: Personality and Political Success,” Acta Politica 54: 667–683.

• Lior Sheffer, Peter John Loewen, Stuart Soroka, Stefaan Walgrave and Tamir Shaefer. 2018. “Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians,” American Political Science Review 112(2): 302-321.

• Anthony Kevins and Stuart Soroka. 2018. “Growing Apart?: Partisan Sorting in Canada, 1992-2015,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 51(1): 103-133.

• Patrick Fournier, Fred Cutler, Stuart Soroka, Dietlind Stolle and Éric Bélanger. 2014. “Riding the Orange Wave: Leadership, Values, Issues, and the 2011 Canadian Election“, Canadian Journal of Political Science 46(4): 863-897.

• Stuart Soroka, Olga Redko and Quinn Albaugh. 2013. “Television in the Legislature: The Impact of Cameras in the House of Commons,” Parliamentary Affairs 68(1): 203-217.

• Stuart Soroka, Erin Penner and Kelly Blidook. 2009. “Constituency Influence in Parliament,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 42(3): 563-591.

• Erin Penner, Stuart Soroka and Kelly Blidook. 2006. “Legislative Priorities and Public Opinion: The Representation of Partisan Agendas in the Canadian House of Commons,”Journal of European Public Policy 13(7): 1006-1020.