The Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences Program is pleased to announce our next brown bag speaker, Dr. Antoine Banks, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, will be giving a talk titled "To be Angry or Not to be Angry: Are Black Political Candidates Emotionally Disadvantaged?"

Please join us for his talk next Monday, Feb 4th, at 4:00pm in Cole 0211.

Abstract: Anger has become the dominant emotional narrative of politics. However, are some politicians more privileged to express anger than others? In this paper, we examine whether a black political candidate (male) is penalized or rewarded for expressing anger about politics relative to a comparable white political candidate and non-angry black political candidate. To test this relationship, we conduct a two-wave survey experiment on an adult national sample of white Americans. Our findings demonstrate that racially prejudiced whites are less favorable of an angry black candidate while racially sympathetic whites are more supportive of such a candidate – compared to an angry white candidate and non-angry black candidate. These results have important implications in understanding among who an angry black political candidate will be electorally disadvantaged and advantaged.