Twitter misogyny associated with Hillary Clinton increased throughout the 2016 U.S. election campaign

Abstract Online misogyny has become a fixture in female politicians’ lives. Backlash theory suggests that it may represent a threat response prompted by female politicians’ counterstereotypical, power-seeking behaviors. We investigated this hypothesis by analyzing Twitter references to Hillary Clint...

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Main Authors: Morgan Weaving, Thayer Alshaabi, Michael V. Arnold, Khandis Blake, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter S. Dodds, Nick Haslam, Cordelia Fine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31620-w