Tweeted Anger Predicts County-Level Results of the 2016 United States Presidential Election

In the aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election, experts and journalists speculated that angry voters had supported the unexpected winner Donald Trump. The present study used a sample of 148 million tweets posted by U.S. citizens from across 1,347 counties, classified with regard to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Katharina Bernecker, Michael Wenzler, Kai Sassenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2019-05-01
Series:International Review of Social Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/256