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Overview

Jennifer L. Merolla is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a focus on a variety of subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, communication, and economics and econometrics.

The research topics covered by Jennifer L. Merolla reflect a diverse engagement with key issues in political behavior and society. These topics include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Religion and Society Interactions

Jennifer L. Merolla has contributed to numerous publications, including journal articles and books. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Research Quarterly
  • Political Behavior
  • California Journal of Politics and Policy
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science

Recent significant papers include:

  • The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication (2020), published in British Journal of Political Science
  • The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps (2021), American Political Science Review
  • Reducing mask resistance among White evangelical Christians with value-consistent messages (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Emotional Responses Shape the Substance of Information Seeking under Conditions of Threat (2020), Political Research Quarterly

The researcher has also published books through established publishers. Notable works include:

  • The Hillary Effect (2020), published by I.B.Tauris eBooks
  • Change and Continuity in the 2020 and 2022 Elections (2023), published by Rowman & Littlefield

Jennifer L. Merolla collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
  • Stephanie L. DeMora
  • Mackenzie Lockhart
  • Seth J. Hill
  • Mindy Romero

Best Publications

  • Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public

    Jennifer Lee Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • “Illegal,” “Undocumented,” or “Unauthorized”: Equivalency Frames, Issue Frames, and Public Opinion on Immigration

    Jennifer Merolla;S. Karthick Ramakrishnan;Chris Haynes

  • Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy

    Chris Haynes;Jennifer Merolla;S. Karthick Ramakrishnan

  • Terrorist Threat, Male Stereotypes, and Candidate Evaluations

    Mirya R. Holman;Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Sex, Stereotypes, and Security: A Study of the Effects of Terrorist Threat on Assessments of Female Leadership

    Mirya R. Holman;Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Crisis, Charisma, and Consequences: Evidence from the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Jennifer M. Ramos;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite Communication

    Benjamin Newman;Jennifer L. Merolla;Sono Shah;Danielle Casarez Lemi

  • Terrorist Threat, Leadership, and the Vote: Evidence from Three Experiments

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Strategic voting in Canada: A Cross Time Analysis

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Laura B. Stephenson

  • It's Not Easy Being Green: Minor Party Labels as Heuristic Aids

    Travis G. Coan;Jennifer L. Merolla;Laura B. Stephenson;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Vota por tu Futuro: Partisan Mobilization of Latino Voters in the 2000 Presidential Election

    Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto;Jennifer L. Merolla

  • Can Canadians Take a Hint? The (In)Effectiveness of Party Labels as Information Shortcuts in Canada

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Laura B. Stephenson;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • What Is the Difference Between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull?: Presentations of Palin and Gender Stereotypes in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Sarah Burns;Lindsay Eberhardt;Jennifer L. Merolla

  • Can experience overcome stereotypes in times of terror threat

    Mirya R. Holman;Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps

    Mirya R. Holman;Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Reducing mask resistance among White evangelical Christians with value-consistent messages.

    Stephanie L. DeMora;Jennifer L. Merolla;Brian Newman;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • Emotions, Terrorist Threat, and Drones: Anger Drives Support for Drone Strikes:

    Kerstin Fisk;Jennifer L. Merolla;Jennifer M. Ramos

  • Descriptive Representation, Political Efficacy, and African Americans in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Abbylin H. Sellers;Derek J. Fowler

  • Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Terror and Economic Threat: The Conditioning Influence of Politician Partisanship

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

  • America's electorate is increasingly polarized along partisan lines about voting by mail during the COVID-19 crisis.

    Mackenzie Lockhart;Seth J Hill;Jennifer Merolla;Mindy Romero

  • Oxytocin and the Biological Basis for Interpersonal and Political Trust

    Jennifer L. Merolla;Guy Burnett;Kenneth V. Pyle;Sheila Ahmadi

  • Finding Her Voice: Hillary Clinton's Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

    Michelle C. Bligh;Jennifer Merolla;Jean Reith Schroedel;Randall Gonzalez

  • What is the Difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull? Presentations of Palin and Gender Stereotypes in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Lindsay Eberhardt;Sarah Burns;Jennifer L. Merolla

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister Vanderbilt University
Mirya R. Holman
Mirya R. Holman University of Houston
Thad Kousser
Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego
Matt A. Barreto
Matt A. Barreto University of California, Los Angeles
Paul J. Zak
Paul J. Zak Claremont Graduate University
Michael C. Munger
Michael C. Munger Duke University
Fabrice Lehoucq
Fabrice Lehoucq University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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