Dr. Michael Cobb

NC State Department of Political Science

Refereed Journal Articles

 

“Ambivalent Sexism and Misogynistic Rap Music: Does Exposure to Eminem Increase

Sexism?” Journal of Applied Social Psychology, (with Bill Boettcher).

 

“Echoes of Vietnam?: Casualty Framing and Public Perceptions of Success and Failure in

Iraq.” 2006. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50: 831-54 (with Bill Boettcher).

 

“Potential Solutions to Public Deliberation Problems: Structured Deliberations and

Polarization Cascades.” 2006. Policy Studies Journal, 34: 629-649 (with Pat Hamlett).

 

“Framing Effects on Public Opinion about Nanotechnology.” 2005. Science

Communication, 27: 221-239.

 

“Public Perceptions about Nanotechnology: Risks, Benefits and Trust.” 2004. Journal of

Nanoparticle Research 6: 395-405 (with Jane Macoubrie).

 

“Examining the Linkage between Descriptive and Substantive Representation: Race and

the Representation of Blacks’ Interests during Reconstruction.” 2001. Political Research

Quarterly 54:181-204 (with Jeffery A. Jenkins).

 

“Racial Attitudes and the New South.” 1997. Journal of Politics 59: 323-349 (with James

H. Kuklinski and Martin Gilens).

 

“Changing Minds: Political Arguments and Political Persuasion.” 1997. American

Journal of Political Science 41: 88-121 (with James H. Kuklinski).

 

Chapters in Books

 

“When White Southerners Converse about Race.” 1998. In Jon Hurwitz and Mark

Peffley, eds., Perception and prejudice: Race and politics in the United States. New

Haven: Yale University Press (with James H. Kuklinski).

 

“The Candidate as Catastrophe: Latitude Theory and the Problems of Political

Persuasion.” 1996. In Diana C. Mutz, Paul M. Sniderman, and Richard A. Brody, eds.,

Political persuasion and attitude change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (with

Gregory Andrade Diamond).

 

Book Reviews

 

Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop-Culture on Young Adult Political

Socialization, David J. Jackson. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002. 167p.

Perspectives on Politics 2(1): 144-45.

 

Papers under review or in preparation for submission

 

“Don’t Let Them Die in Vain”: Sunk-Cost Frames and Public Tolerance for Expending

Blood and Treasure in Iraq.” (with Bill Boettcher)

 

"Casualties of War: Media, Knowledge and Opinions about the War in Iraq”

“The Principal Policy Objective as a Variable: Goal Framing Effects on Support for the

War in Iraq” (with Bill Boettcher).

 

“Media Coverage of Congress (women) Behaving Badly.” (with Yasmin Farahi).

 

Recent Conference Papers (not reported elsewhere)

 

“Bad Boys: Causes and Consequences of Political Scandals in Congress, 1980-2006.”

Paper prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Chicago, IL, Aug 30-Sept 2.

 

“Knowing the Truth is not enough: The Resilience of Discredited Information.” Paper

prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Society of

Political Psychology, Portland, OR, July 4-7.

 

“WMD and Perceptions of Threat: An Experimental Analysis of Citizen Response to

Nuclear Versus Biological WMD.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 102nd Annual

Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 31-

September 3, 2006 (with Steve Greene and Bill Boettcher).

 

“Sex, Bribes and Nannygate: Candidate Gender and Political Scandal.” Paper presented

at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA.,

November, 2002 (with Jessica Harrell).

 

“The Consequences of Social Desirability Effects: Assessing the Role of Individualism in

Symbolic Racism.” 2001.

 

“Racial Stereotypes and Beliefs about Race and Crime: An Unobtrusive Design.” Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

Washington, D.C. 2000.

 

Grants

 

2007 Co-PI, NSF grant # 0531194 ($231,421). “A National-Scale Citizens' Technology

Forum on Nanotechnology.”

 

2004 Co-PI, NSF Grant #535391. ($130,685). “Public Information, Development

Scenarios, and Public Deliberation in Nanoscience and Technology Policy.”

 

2004 PI, NCSU, FRPD Grant ($4,000). Information Processing Biases and Candidate

Impressions: Why Bad Information still Matters.

 

2003 Co-PI, NSF Grant #0242994 ($325,000). "Citizen Learning, Deliberation, and

Reasoning in Internet-Mediated Technology Policy Forums.”

Publications