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Bad for Men, Better for Women: The Impact of Stereotypes During Negative Campaigns

lightning_palm

January 21, 2023

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Title	Bad for Men, Better for Women: The Impact of Stereotypes During Negative Campaigns
Author	lightning_palm
Upvotes	21
Comments	1
Date	January 21, 2023 11:45 AM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/Male_Studies/comments/10hpflr/bad_for_men_better_for_women_the_impact_of/
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Abstract

In this paper, we examine whether the impact of negative advertising on citizens’ evaluations of candidates depends on the gender of the candidates. Given common gender stereotypes, we expect negative campaigning aimed at women candidates will affect citizens differently than negative campaigning against male candidates. The results of our study, derived from a survey experiment conducted on a nationwide sample of more than 700 citizens, demonstrate that negative commercials are less effective at depressing evaluations of woman candidates, compared to male candidates. The findings are consistent and strong, across a range of forces that people use to assess competing candidates (i.e., affect and trait evaluations, people’s beliefs about issues, anticipated vote choice). The tight control of the experimental design, including randomization of respondents into different conditions that vary in only one way, demonstrates that the gender of the candidate influences people’s reactions to different types of negative commercials.