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Steven W. Webster

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Electoral Systems and Political ParticipationPopulism, Right-Wing MovementsSocial Media and PoliticsSocial and Cultural DynamicsSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Publications

44

Citations

2,922

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

22

Publishing since 2005

Research summary
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Steven W. Webster studies American political behavior, with a focus on how emotions—especially anger—shape public opinion, voting, and political polarization. His work examines how partisans feel about opposing political groups, including phenomena like taking pleasure in the misfortune of the other side, and how political leaders can stir up these emotions. He often publishes accompanying replication datasets, reflecting an empirical, data-driven approach.

Emotions and political angerPartisanship and polarizationPublic opinionVoting behavior and electionsPolitical psychology

Publication activity peaked around 2020–2021 and has slowed in recent years, averaging about two publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 12 publications12202021: 8 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 1 publication23242025: 1 publication252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×9
  • Harvard Dataverse×6
  • Public Opinion Quarterly×3
  • Political Psychology×2
  • Political Science Research and Methods×2

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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