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

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

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