Tag: Nicholas Buttrick

Developing the HeART: Tracking Racial Heterogeneity in Fiction Reading Habits

Posted on 04/23/2026

Reading Research Quarterly (2026) Authors: Maya Rabinowitz, Abla Alaoui Soce, Nick Buttrick, Diana I. Tamir Abstract: Tracing the stories people have read may help us understand their beliefs and social attitudes. In this study, we develop and validate a scale to measure racial diversity in people’s fiction reading: the Heterogeneous Author Recognition Test (HeART). To …

Love Him for the Enemies He Has Made: Signaling by Inflammatory Pro-Gun Rhetoric

Posted on 11/17/2025

Political Psychology (2025) Authors: Sosuke Okada, Nicholas Buttrick Abstract: American politics is rife with messages designed to anger one’s political enemies. In this paper, we propose and test a model suggesting that such inflammatory messages are effective because they signal that the messenger is unwilling to compromise with the groups they have offended. Taking the example …