Research

Publications

Pitch Perfect: Vocal Pitch and the Emotional Intensity of Congressional Speech on Women. (with Matt Hayes and Diana O'Brien), 2019, American Political Science Review 113(4): 941-962.

Emotional Arousal Predicts Votes on the Supreme Court. (with Ryan D. Enos and Maya Sen), 2019, Political Analysis 27(2): 237-243.

Vocal Pattern Detection of Depression among Older Adults. (with Marianne Smith, Er-wei Bai, and H. Jeremy Bockholt), 2019, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 29(3): 440–449.
Using Motion Detection to Measure Social Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Forthcoming)

Contextual Determinants of Observed Negative Emotional States in Police-Community Interactions. (with David A. Makin, Dale W. Willits, Wendy Koslicki, Rachael Brooks, and Rachel L. Bailey), 2019, Criminal Justice and Behavior 46(2): 301-318.
Geovisual Text Analytics for Exploring Spatiotemporal Variation in Public Discourse on Twitter. (with Caglar Koylu and Ryan L. Larson), 2019, Cartography and Geographic Information Science 46(1): 57-71.
When Candidates Debate, Does Social Media Listen? (with Courtney Juelich), 2018, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 28(2): 208-224.
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions among U.S. State Legislators (with Scott Lasley, Jeffery J. Mondak, Megan L. Remmel and Joel Turner), 2012, Political Psychology 33(2):179-306.

Is There Anybody Out There? C-SPAN and the Distribution of Desirable Speech Time (with Jielu Yao) In Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning, ed. Purdue University Press, 2019.
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, What is a Video Worth? In Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda, Robert X. Browning, ed. Purdue University Press, 2015.

Gender Dynamics in Elite Political Contexts: Evidence from Supreme Court Oral Arguments. (with Ryan D. Enos and Maya Sen)
Using the Audio from Telephone Surveys for Political Science Research. (with Jeff Mondak)
Estimating the Duplicate Voting Rate in the United States. (with Matthew A. Baum, Ryan Enos, David Lazer, Margaret Schwenzfeier, and Maya Sen)
Do Oral Arguments Influence the Language of Majority Opinions? (with Maya Sen)
You've Got to Know When to Fold Them: Reassessing Bluffing, Resolve, and Reputation in Politics. (with Matthew A. Baum and Phil Potter)
Race, Deliberation, and Voter Identification Laws. (with Matt Hayes)
Do Legislators Emphasize Some Groups More Than Others? (with Diana Z. O'Brien and Jielu Yao)