Donald Trump

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...

New research published in the journal American Political Science Review revealed that people who expressed extreme dislike toward Democratically-aligned minority groups were more likely to approve of Donald Trump when he made his way into politics — regardless of their...

In a new study published in the Journal of Social Psychology, researchers get one step closer to understanding the psychological processes behind support for former U.S. president Donald Trump. The study found that narcissism was related to increased support for...

People who endorsed President Donald Trump's denials of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to adopt justifications for deviant behavior related to social distancing, according to new research conducted during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak....

New research has found that watching Donald Trump's White House briefings was associated with reduced intentions to follow public health guidelines intended stop the spread of COVID-19 in 2020. The study, published in the journal Health Communication, indicates that the...

People often have mixed feelings about a topic and can simultaneously see both the positive and negative sides of things. But new research, published in PLOS One, suggests that professional pollsters are failing to account for this ambivalence in their...

Higher levels of national nostalgia are associated with positive attitudes toward former President Donald Trump and racial prejudice, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychology. The findings suggest that the appeal of nostalgic political rhetoric is tied to...

New research from PLOS One suggests that Trump supporters may share some of the narcissistic traits that were exhibited by the former U.S. president himself during his 2020 re-election campaign. The study revealed that people who scored higher in the...

New research has found a link between support for Donald Trump and mask-wearing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, published in the Eastern Economic Journal, suggests that Trump's infrequent use of masks in public may have influenced his voters...

According to a new study, short-term exposure to Trump’s 2016 immigration policies was enough to trigger an anxiety response among the Latino population in America. The findings, published in the journal Group Processes & Relations, additionally suggest that this anxiety...

Donald Trump appears to have benefited from a rally-round-the-flag effect among Republicans concerned with COVID-19 during the early stages of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States, according to new research published in PLOS One. But this effect had...

New research from the University of California at Irvine suggests that Donald Trump's tweets influenced the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. The study, which appears in JAMA Network Open, examined social media data from Twitter to capture changes in the...

New research published in Early Human Development found a higher risk of periviable birth among Latina women whose pregnancy coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Periviable births are severely premature births occurring between 20 and 25 weeks of pregnancy...

People who voted for Donald Trump and feel warmly towards him tend to score higher on a measure of egocentric victimhood, according to new research published in the scientific journal Political Behavior. Those who exhibit heightened levels of systemic victimhood,...

Donald Trump was viewed as a low-trust individual as a presidential candidate and this perception did not improve overall after he entered the highest office in the United States, according to new research published in American Behavioral Scientist. Despite the...