Invited Presentations
“Signaling Incivility: The Role of Speaker, Substance and Tone” (with Grace Atkins*). National Institute for Civil Discourse 2nd Research Convening, Tucson, AZ (2017).
“The Interaction of Political Incivility and Psychological Conflict Orientation.” University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication Political Communication Lecture Series, Jan. 23, 2017.
“Polite Racism and Democratic Outrage: Identifying Political Incivility and Its Effects.” Southwestern University Race and Ethnicity Studies Symposium, Jan. 17, 2017.
“Civil Discourse.” Colonial Williamsburg Connect Webcast (2012)
Conference Papers
“Creating Trust in Government” (with Emily Pears). American Political Science Association Political Communication Preconference, Boston, MA (2018)
“What’s Your Excuse? Effects of Personal and Political Justifications for Flip-Flopping (with Daniel Folsom* and Boris Heersink). Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2018).
“Signaling Incivility: The Role of a Speaker’s Race and Use of Uncivil Language” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2017).
“The Emotional Consequences of Political Incivility and Psychological Conflict Orientation.” European Consortium of Political Research Joint Session Workshop on Political Incivility in Parliament, Party Competition and Political Communication, Nottingham, England (2017).
“The Emotional Consequences of Political Incivility and Psychological Conflict Orientation.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2017).
“Signaling Incivility: The Role of Speaker, Substance and Tone.” (with Grace Atkins). Political Communication Preconference to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2016).
“Easing Political Digestion: The Effects of News Curation on Citizens.” (with Danielle Psimas). Political Communication Preconference to the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
“Uncivil Exposure: The Relationship Between Political Incivility, Conflict Orientation, and Selective Exposure.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2014)
“Psychological Moderators of Information Acquisition: The Case of Conflict Orientation.” Annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Herzliya, Israel (2013)
“Fighting Words: The Effects of Conflict Orientation and Civility on Individuals’ Willingness to Engage in Political Discussion.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2013)
“Ready to Engage: Using Implicit and Explicit Measures of Individual Conflict Orientation to Understand Media Consumption and Political Participation.” Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2012)
Conference Posters
“The Interaction of Political Incivility and Psychological Conflict Orientation.” Annual meeting of the Society for Personal and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX (2017).
“Conflict Resolution through Selective Exposure: The Effects of Conflict Orientation on Media Choice.” Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2013)
“Assessing Student Learning in Political Science.” (with Nicole Pankiewicz and Lynn Sanders) Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2013)