The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, April 19, 2007

A glance at the current issue of Political Psychology: How audience response skews perceptions of debates

Voters' views of a candidate's performance are strongly influenced by the reactions of fellow witnesses to presidential debates, according to a study by Steven Fein, a professor of psychology at Williams College, and two colleagues from the University of Richmond and Princeton University.

In their experiments,...

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