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Kevin Arceneaux

Kevin Arceneaux

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Political Science
France
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
41
Citations
8118
World Ranking
458
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Kevin Arceneaux is affiliated with Sciences Po in France and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly contributions span multiple disciplines, with a focus on sociology, political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and gender studies. Their work reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding political behavior, emotions, and misinformation.

Arceneaux's research covers a range of topics including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social Media and Politics

Their published papers include the following:

  • "Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries" (2021), published in Political Science Research and Methods
  • "The 'Need for Chaos' and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors" (2023), published in American Political Science Review
  • "Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the 'Need for Chaos'" (2021), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Donald Trump and the Lie" (2022), published in Perspectives on Politics

Arceneaux frequently collaborates with other researchers. Common co-authors include:

  • Michael Bang Petersen
  • Lene Aarøe
  • Bert N. Bakker
  • Johanna Dunaway
  • Catherine E. De Vries

The primary venues where Arceneaux's work has appeared include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Political Science
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Arceneaux also has contributions to academic publishing through Cambridge University Press, with the book titled The House that Fox News Built?, which is scheduled for publication in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Changing Minds or Changing Channels?: Partisan News in an Age of Choice

    Kevin Arceneaux;Martin Johnson

  • Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising

    Gregory A. Huber;Kevin Arceneaux

  • Who Is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments

    Kevin Arceneaux;David W. Nickerson

  • Public Opinion in the American States: New Perspectives Using National Survey Data

    Paul Brace;Kellie Sims-Butler;Kevin Arceneaux;Martin Johnson

  • Polarized Political Communication, Oppositional Media Hostility, and Selective Exposure

    Kevin Arceneaux;Martin Johnson;Chad Murphy

  • Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Who is Held Responsible When Disaster Strikes? The Attribution of Responsibility for a Natural Disaster in an Urban Election

    Kevin Arceneaux;Robert M. Stein

  • The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration

    Lene Aarøe;Michael Bang Petersen;Kevin Arceneaux

  • The Federal Face of Voting: Are Elected Officials Held Accountable for the Functions Relevant to Their Office?

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Modeling Certainty with Clustered Data: A Comparison of Methods

    Kevin Arceneaux;David W. Nickerson

  • Can Partisan Cues Diminish Democratic Accountability

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Educating the Least Informed: Group Endorsements in a Grassroots Campaign

    Kevin Arceneaux;Robin Kolodny

  • The "Gender Gap" in State Legislative Representation: New Data to Tackle an Old Question

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Do Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods Using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment

    Kevin Arceneaux;Alan S. Gerber;Donald P. Green

  • Direct Democracy and the Link between Public Opinion and State Abortion Policy

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Public Opinion and Dynamic Representation in the American States: The Case of Environmental Attitudes*

    Martin Johnson;Paul Brace;Kevin Arceneaux

  • The Conditional Impact of Blame Attribution on the Relationship Between Economic Adversity and Turnout

    Kevin Arceneaux

  • Taming Intuition: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability

    Kevin Arceneaux;Ryan J. Vander Wielen

  • Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats

    Bert N. Bakker;Gijs Schumacher;Claire Gothreau;Kevin Arceneaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bang Petersen
Michael Bang Petersen Aarhus University
Paul Brace
Paul Brace Rice University
Alan S. Gerber
Alan S. Gerber Yale University
David W. Nickerson
David W. Nickerson Temple University
Gregory A. Huber
Gregory A. Huber Yale University
Sara B. Hobolt
Sara B. Hobolt London School of Economics and Political Science
Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green Columbia University
Thad Kousser
Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego
Jason Reifler
Jason Reifler University of Southampton

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