Brittany Shaughnessy

Why Do You Feel That Way? Elaboration Questions and Feeling Heard in Political Talk | Article | Media and Communication Brittany Shaughnessy, Myiah Hutchens, Janet Coats, Ilyssa Mann, Caleb Wiegandt, Mónica Guzmán

Though I’ve shifted from academia to public service, I’m proud of this ✨open access✨ paper! We used undergrad actors to test if follow-up questions make people feel heard in political talks. They do—on topics like homelessness & abortion. Dialogue matters. ⭐️

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Big news! Later this month, I’ll be starting as a Data Analyst II at the New Mexico Higher Education Department. My time at UF has been an incredible journey, and as my dissertation defense looms, I’m grateful for the skills I’ve learned. The leap to industry is possible!

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🚨| NEW PUB with Jay Hmielowski in the Journal of Rural Studies! We examine predictors of people's feelings about rural residents, finding that conservative media users, rural identifiers, and conservatives all had positive feelings about rural residents. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kFk32eyKF...

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(I don’t know why) I go to extremes: Examining left- and right-wing American alternative media use, the role of populism, and extremist attitudes

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Far-left and far-right self-reported news exposure is correlated with extremist attitudes with populist attitudes not moderating this relationship, finds
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