Publications
14. Claire Gothreau and Lasse Laustsen. “Women and Left-wing Citizens Prefer Women Candidates: Testing Consistency and Psychological Processes Across Twenty Diverse Countries” Forthcoming, Public Opinion Quarterly
Winner of the Roberta Sigel Early Career Scholar Paper Award (ISPP 2024)
13. Claire Gothreau and Nicholas Haas. “Weighty Politics: Weight-Based Discrimination in U.S. Elections” Forthcoming, The Journal of Politics
12. Claire Gothreau and Nicholas Haas. “A Replication and Extension of Willer et al. (2013) Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis” Journal of Experimental Political Science, doi: 10.1017/XPS.2025.10027
Winner of the TESS Special Competition on Replications
11. Claire Gothreau and Lasse Laustsen. “Shifting Stereotypes about Men and Women Candidates: Experimental Evidence from the United States" Politics & Gender, doi: 10.1017/S1743923X25000042
10. Claire Gothreau, Julian Schuessler, and Amanda Milena Alvarez. 2024. “Can Exposure to Sexual Objectification Impact Policy Attitudes? Evidence From Two Survey Experiments” Politics and the Life Sciences, doi: 10.1017/pls.2024.5
9. Lasse Laustsen and Claire Gothreau. 2023. “Do Danish Voters Discriminate Against Female and Ethnic Minority Candidates? Results From a Survey Experiment” Politica, doi: 10.7146/politica.v55i4.141539
Winner of the Politica Best Paper Published in 2023 Prize
8. Joona Räsänen, Claire Gothreau, and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. 2022. “Does Overruling Roe Discriminate Against Women (Of Colour)?” Journal of Medical Ethics, doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108504
7. Claire Gothreau, Amanda Milena Alvarez, and Amanda Friesen. 2022 “Objectified and Dehumanized: Does Objectification Impact Perceptions of Women Political Candidates?” Journal of Experimental Political Science, doi: 10.1017/XPS.2022.15
6. Claire Gothreau, Kevin Arceneaux, and Amanda Friesen. 2022. “Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes.” Frontiers in Political Science, doi: 10.3389/fpos.2022.817309
5. Claire Gothreau, Clarisse Warren, and Stephen Schneider. 2022. “Looking the Other Way: How Ideology Influences Perceptions of Sexual Harassment.” European Journal of Politics and Gender, doi: 10.1332/251510821X16445951244136
4. Amanda Friesen, Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, and Claire Gothreau. 2021. “Political Taste: Exploring How Perception of Bitter Substances May Reveal Risk Tolerance and Political Preferences.” Politics and the Life Sciences, doi: 10.1017/pls.2021.20
3. Claire Gothreau. 2021. “Sex Objects: How Self-Objectification Undermines Political Efficacy and Engagement” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, doi: 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1941630
2. Claire Gothreau and Kira Sanbonmatsu. 2021. “Women and Unequal Voice in Governors’ Races: A Study of Campaign Contributions.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, doi: 10.1080/21565503.2021.1932531
1. Bert Bakker, Gijs Schumacher, Claire Gothreau, and Kevin Arceneaux. 2020. “Conservatives and Liberals have Similar Physiological Responses to Threats.” Nature Human Behavior, doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0823-z