Spencer Piston

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Spencer Piston is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer Piston has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Spencer Piston's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (21 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (14 papers) and Gender Politics and Representation (9 papers). Spencer Piston is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (21 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (14 papers) and Gender Politics and Representation (9 papers). Spencer Piston collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Spencer Piston's co-authors include Yanna Krupnikov, Scott Clifford, Geoffrey Sheagley, Vesla M. Weaver, Ashley Jardina, Nichole M. Bauer, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Logan Strother, John Barry Ryan and Samara Klar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Spencer Piston

31 papers receiving 960 citations

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Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments

2021 105 citations Scott Clifford, Geoffrey Sheagley et al. American Political Science Review profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Study of Racism and Policing in the United States 2025 ·Annual Review of Political Science ·Spencer Piston, (unknown), (unknown), Clive Walker	0
2	Trickle-down racism: Trump's effect on whites’ racist dehumanizing attitudes 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ashley Jardina, Spencer Piston	8
3	The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States 2023 ·Annual Review of Political Science ·Ashley Jardina, Spencer Piston	12
4	The Effects of Dehumanizing Attitudes about Black People on Whites’ Voting Decisions 2021 ·British Journal of Political Science ·Ashley Jardina, Spencer Piston	14
5	Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments breakdown → 2021 ·American Political Science Review ·Scott Clifford, Geoffrey Sheagley, Spencer Piston	105
6	Whitewashing: How Obama Used Implicit Racial Cues as a Defense Against Political Rumors 2020 ·Political Behavior ·Vincent L. Hutchings, (unknown), (unknown), Spencer Piston	3
7	College roommates have a modest but significant influence on each other’s political ideology 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Logan Strother, Spencer Piston, Ezra Golberstein, Sarah E. Gollust, Daniel Eisenberg	17
8	The Pictures in Their Heads: How U.S. Mayors Think About Racial Inequality 2020 ·Urban Affairs Review ·Katherine Levine Einstein, (unknown), Spencer Piston	4
9	Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age 2019 ·Political Science Quarterly ·Spencer Piston	71
10	Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities 2019 ·The Journal of Politics ·Vesla M. Weaver, (unknown), Spencer Piston	59
11	Clear as Black and White: The Effects of Ambiguous Rhetoric Depend on Candidate Race 2018 ·The Journal of Politics ·Spencer Piston, Yanna Krupnikov, (unknown), John Barry Ryan	22
12	Class Attitudes in America 2018 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Spencer Piston	52
13	PRIDE OR PREJUDICE? 2017 ·Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ·Logan Strother, Spencer Piston, (unknown)	39
14	The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice against Blacks 2016 ·Public Opinion Quarterly ·Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston	32
15	Explaining Public Support for Counterproductive Homelessness Policy: The Role of Disgust 2016 ·Political Behavior ·Scott Clifford, Spencer Piston	55
16	The influence of competing organisational appeals on individual donations 2015 ·Journal of Public Policy ·Samara Klar, Spencer Piston	8
17	Accentuating the Negative: Candidate Race and Campaign Strategy 2015 ·Political Communication ·Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston	27
18	Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates 2015 ·Political Psychology ·Yanna Krupnikov, Spencer Piston, Nichole M. Bauer	68
19	What Does it Take to Reduce Racial Prejudice in Individual-Level Candidate Evaluations? A Formal Theoretic Perspective 2014 ·Political Science Research and Methods ·Arthur Lupia, Logan S. Casey, (unknown), Spencer Piston, Timothy J. Ryan, Christopher Skovron	16
20	How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election 2010 ·Political Behavior ·Spencer Piston	186

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