[Poscgrad] Final SSL Lunch Talk of the Quarter: Amy Kroska (Sociology), June 11, 1-2pm @INTS1113

[Social Sciences Laboratory]

This is a reminder about the lunch talk *next Thursday* by Professor *Amy
Kroska* from Sociology and her coauthor, Professor *Tony Roberts*.
Please *register here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfx18EaNorFvjkXtBfo160vCe74DpzV2HVRpMlYn-zDfBuIHA/viewform?usp=send_form>
by tomorrow* so we can finalize the headcount and accommodate any dietary
restrictions!

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM Social Sciences Laboratory <ssl at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Dear UCR social science community,
>
> Thank you to everyone who attended the lunch talk today and brought such
> great energy to the room. To keep that momentum rolling right into our
> final event of the year, we invite you to take a breath, grab a bite, and
> recharge with us for our final lunch talk of the year.
>
> On June 11th,* Amy Kroska* and her coauthor *Tony Roberts* (joining
> remotely) will be delivering a talk titled "Affective Sentiments and Voting
> Behavior in the 2024 Presidential Election." We hope to see many of you
> there!
>
> *Date and Time*: June 11 (Thu), from 1pm to 2pm
> *Location*: INTS 1113 or via zoom <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/8748933256>
> *Speaker*: Amy Kroska (Professor of Sociology) and Tony Roberts
> <https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/arobe003/> (Associate Professor
> of Sociology at Colorado State University)
> *Registration*: Please register *here*
> <https://forms.gle/CHUsmEs15Upta2aS8> by *June 5* so we can finalize the
> headcount and accommodate any dietary restrictions.
> [image: SSL Lunch Talk_Kroska_June11.png]
> *Title*: "Affective Sentiments and Voting Behavior in the 2024
> Presidential Election."
> *Abstract: *The 2024 presidential election revealed an important puzzle
> in American politics, with
> sociodemographic voting patterns shifting even as partisan polarization
> intensified. Building on
> research showing that Americans’ interpersonal networks have become
> segregated by education,
> income, race, and religiosity, we argue that these divisions provide the
> micro foundations for
> divergent political sentiment along three dimensions of meaning:
> evaluation, potency, and
> activity (EPA). More specifically, we propose that this divergence in
> sentiments toward political
> roles and candidates may explain variation in recent voting behavior by
> shaping whether voters
> perceive candidates as affectively suited for political roles. Drawing a
> Prolific quota sample of
> U.S. citizens collected between October 8th and October 21st of 2024, we
> examine the Euclidean
> distance between the EPA ratings of “a president” and the two major
> presidential candidates
> (Kamala Harris and Donald Trump) in the 2024 election to explain the
> voting intentions of eight
> social groups based on religious affiliation, race, education, age,
> gender, income, party
> affiliation, and marital status. We find that the Trump-President EPA
> distance partially mediates
> the voting intentions of Protestants, non-Hispanic White respondents,
> Republicans, older
> respondents, and married respondents, while the Harris-President EPA
> distance partially
> mediates the voting intentions of non-Hispanic White respondents and
> Republicans. These
> patterns hold net of respondents’ political ideology, partisan identity,
> and state-level voting in
> 2020. Together, these patterns suggest that contemporary voting patterns
> are partly determined
> by perceptions of whether candidates affectively fit political roles.
>
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