[Poscgrad] Upcoming Social Sciences Lab Brown Bag Seminar: Feb 26, 11-12 @INTS1113

[Jieun Lee]

Dear POSC grad students,

The Social Sciences Laboratory's next Brown Bag Seminar will take
place on *February
26* from 11am to 12pm in INTS 1113.

Mirya Homan (Professor in Public Policy, University of Houston) will
present a paper titled "*Identity Claims in Political Speech*." Additional
details are provided below. Please register for the event here
<https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7> if you are interested! Lunch will be
provided.

We are also planning to hold three to four talks by faculty across social
science disciplines during the Spring quarter. Please stay tuned for more
information!

*Title*: Identity Claims in Political Speech
*Abstract*:
Social identities are central to political discussions and decisions. But
how do people deploy identities that are not visibly apparent? We argue
that people use identity claims to establish themselves as members of
socially desirable and situationally relevant groups and to draw attention
to their political communications. We evaluate the use of these *identity
claims* across five datasets: elite communications in newsletters,
biographies, and on social media and in public comment periods in 200,000+
school board and city council meetings to show that people use
situationally relevant and socially deserving identities. We then test our
argument causally through a unique survey experiment where participants
rate and rank public comments. Finally, we use public comments in a single
school board to evaluate changes in vocal pitch to establish that identity
claims preface heightened emotions.


-- 
Jieun Lee
*Ph.D. Candidate*, Department of Political Science,
*Lab Manager, *Social Sciences Laboratory,
University of California, Riverside
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