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Trait associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in news media : a computational analysis
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Bhatia, Sudeep, Goodwin, G. and Walasek, Lukasz (2018) Trait associations for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in news media : a computational analysis. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9 (2). pp. 123-130. doi:10.1177/1948550617751584 ISSN 1948-5506.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617751584
Abstract
We study media representations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election. In particular, we train models of semantic memory on a large number of news media outlets that published online articles during the course of the election. Based on the structure of word co-occurrence in these media outlets, our models learn semantic representations for the two presidential candidates, as well as for widely studied personality traits. We find that models trained on media outlets most read by Clinton voters and media outlets most read by Trump voters differ in the strength of association between the two candidates’ names and trait words pertaining to morality. We observe some differences for trait words pertaining to warmth, but none for trait words pertaining to competence.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1947- -- Press coverage, Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Press coverage, Presidents -- Election, Presidential candidates, Personality | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Psychological and Personality Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1948-5506 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 9 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 123-130 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1948550617751584 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 June 2018 |
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