Publications
McWagner, Kyle, and William Kidd. “Affective Polarization and Anti-Democratic Attitudes: A Complex Relationship.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (2025): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2025.2558780
Kidd, William. “Partisan (A)Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support Equivalent Across Party and Race.” Political Research Quarterly. 78.1 (2025): 247-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241292564
Kidd, William, and Joseph A. Vitriol. “Moral Leadership in the 2016 US Presidential Election.” Political Psychology 43, no. 3 (2022): 583-604.
Bell, Angela C., Collette P. Eccleston, Leigh A. Bradberry, William C. Kidd, Catherine C. Mesick, and Abraham M. Rutchick. “Ingroup projection in American politics: An obstacle to bipartisanship.” Social Psychological and Personality Science 13, no. 5 (2022): 906-915.
Ongoing Projects
Kidd, William. “Electoral Dynamics of Constitutional Hardball: Combating Democratic Erosion Under Compromise Penalty”
McWagner, Kyle, and William Kidd. “The Very Real Impact of Support for Hypothetical Violence.”
Kidd, William, and Joseph A. Vitriol. “(Mis)Perception of Moral Belief Among Mass and Elite Partisans”
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