Political Discourse, Code-Switching, and Ideology

Political party affiliation, political ideology and mortality.

BACKGROUND Ecological and cross-sectional studies have indicated that conservative political ideology is associated with better health. Longitudinal analyses of mortality are needed because subjective assessments of ideology may confound subjective assessments of health, particularly in cross-sectional analyses. METHODS Data were derived from the 2008 General Social Survey-National Death Inde...

Political Ideology, Trust, and Cooperation

Theories suggest that political ideology relates to cooperation, with conservatives being more likely to pursue selfish outcomes, and liberals more likely to pursue egalitarian outcomes. In study 1, we examine how political ideology and political party affiliation (Republican vs. Democrat) predict cooperation with a partner who self-identifies as Republican or Democrat in two samples before (n ...

Communal Ideology and Political Support

Code-switching and Predictability of Meaning in Discourse

* We are grateful to audiences at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 2012, the Santa Barbara Cognition and Language Workshop 2012, and the Linguistic Society of America 2013 annual meeting; members of the UCSD Computational Psycholinguistics Lab; and Mary Bucholtz, Vic Ferreira, Stefan Gries, Florian Jaeger, Andy Kehler, Marianne Mithun, Pieter Muysken, and an anonymous referee for in...

Political ideology and tobacco control.