Donald Trump

Supporters of former President Donald Trump desire harsher punishment for a Chinese-American man who committed bank fraud compared to a white man who committed the same crime, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Supporting or opposing former President Donald Trump has a causal effect on the perceived ideology of Republican candidates, according to new findings published in American Politics Research. The new study indicates that pro-Trump Republicans tend to be viewed as more...

Donald Trump’s presidency included many transgressive behaviors which were rationalized by his followers. A study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology explores the roles of group prototypicality and identity advancement in how supporters downplayed and accepted Trumps harmful...

New research sheds light on how Donald Trump's offline rhetoric might have mobilized online political discussions related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The findings have been published in the journal Frontiers in Sociology.

New findings from the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggest that Trump supporters are more simple-minded and happier than Biden supporters. A text analysis of written narratives from Unites States citizens revealed that Trump supporters used language that was more positive,...

A series of 13 studies with over 10,000 participants tested the change in Americans’ prejudice following the presidency of Donald Trump. The researchers found that explicit racial and religious prejudice increased amongst Trump’s supporters, while prejudice decreased among those who...

Donald Trump made headlines time and time again for his insulting nicknames, but how effective of a campaign strategy was that? A study published in the Journal of Political Marketing aims to answer that question.

Greater trust in Donald Trump predicts reduced COVID-19 knowledge, while greater trust in scientists predicts more knowledge, according to new research published in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Researchers recently used the fact-checked tweets of Donald Trump to develop a linguistic model to detect the former president's lies. Their new findings, which appear in Psychological Science, provide evidence that Trump's use of language differed in predictable ways when...

Knowing someone with COVID-19 seemed to lead liberals to judge Trump’s response to the pandemic less harshly but lead conservatives to judge Trump’s response more harshly.

New research sheds light on how people resolve inconsistencies between their own moral views and that of their preferred candidate. The findings, published in Political Psychology, suggest that U.S. voters on both sides of the political aisle tend to revise...

Supporters of Democratic candidates tend to be less cognitively rigid and more interpersonally warm than Trump supporters, according to new research published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. This was found to be true even for supporters of...

A study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine suggests that election outcomes can impact population-level mental health. Moreover, the extent of this impact depends on a person’s race/ethnicity and their surrounding political climate. The findings revealed that Latinx people living...

A team of researchers from the University of South Carolina Upstate have uncovered political and psychological factors associated with important health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, published in PLOS One, suggest that trust in science plays a key...

Extreme mental distress among LGBT people increased during Donald Trump's political rise and presidency, according to new research published in the journal Economics & Human Biology. Trump became the Republican Party's presidential nominee in July 2016 and that same month...