“Please Clap”: Applause, Laughter, and Booing during the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary Debates

Stewart, Patrick A.; Eubanks, Austin D.; Miller, Jason

doi:10.1017/s1049096516001451

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“…The vocalic utterances that constitute laughter are much shorter in duration than applause-cheering, for instance. Analysis shows that group laughter in political contexts lasts on average 1-3 seconds in comparison with 2-8 seconds for applause-cheering Stewart, 2015;Stewart, Eubanks, & Miller, 2016) . Booing, another form of observable audience response, is surprisingly rare in political contexts.…”

Section: Political Laughtermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, when an audience shows their appreciation for a humourous comment, applause-cheering prolongs the laughing response (Stewart, 2012;Stewart et al, 2016). This points to high levels of social mimicry in the case of group laughter, and then likely social contagiousness through its continuation via applause.…”

Section: Political Laughtermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kipp, 1994). ANVIL allows for frame-by-frame analysis of speaking time and the ability to disambiguate the observable audience responses by considering both audible response by the audience (Stewart et al, 2016; , and camera shots of the audience (Grabe & Bucy, 2009) . Adobe Premier Pro software was then used to edit the video and develop the various experimental conditions.…”

Section: Ronald Reagan's Leadership Stylementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was expected that the applause-cheering would be most likely observed in media coverage of group settings such as political speeches (Dye, 2018) and intra-party debates (Stewart, 2015;Stewart et al, 2016) . This is due to such observable audience responses predominating in political discourse because of the ease with which candidates are able to evoke it among supporters in partisan settings.…”

Section: Ronald Reagan's Leadership Stylementioning

confidence: 99%

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Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

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Dye³

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President Ronald Reagan’s expert use of media and his charismatic connection with viewers earned him the moniker “the great communicator”. This study examines one aspect of his charisma, the influence of elicited laughter, during a much-discussed and highly critical 5-minute news story by CBS reporter Leslie Stahl during the 1984 US presidential election. Production choices regarding observable audience responses (OAR) on viewer perceptions of politicians have not been extensively studied. The focus of the present study is to explore the effects of audience laughter on perceived leadership traits. Two experiments examining the mediating effects of audience laughter on perceptions of presidential leadership are reported. The first shows that perceptions of Reagan’s perceived warmth significantly diminish when strong laughter is removed from the presentation, whereas perceptions of competence remain unaffected. The second study proposes a between-subjects experiment (preregistered report) to confirm and extend the findings of the first study by considering trait charisma and the influence of specific humorous comments that are accompanied by laughter.

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Section: Political Laughtermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Political Laughtermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ronald Reagan's Leadership Stylementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ronald Reagan's Leadership Stylementioning

confidence: 99%

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Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

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Dye³

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“…[35: 150] In any case, the study of gestures in politics is increasingly capturing the attention of researchers across many disciplines, including political science, history, philosophy and psycholinguistics. [40,[48][49][50] …”

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Nonverbal contention and contempt in U.K. parliamentary oversight hearings on fiscal and monetary policy

Schonhardt-Bailey

2017

Polit. life sci.

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In parliamentary committee oversight hearings on fiscal policy, monetary policy and financial stability, where verbal deliberation is the focus, nonverbal communication may be pivotal inNotably, the concern here is with the explanations and justifications aspect of accountability, and as such, the focus is on the deliberative component of accountability, rather than the implications 3 or consequences of any judgements (e.g., sanctions, penalties or other consequences of judgements are not explored in this project). Moreover, the "judgments" of parliamentary committees are not in the form of votes (at least in respect to oversight hearings), but rather are on-going and cumulative assessments of ministers and experts. In this way, both the deliberations and the judgments are dynamic and inherently interactional.Although deliberation is at the heart of decision making within public policy, its contribution remains inherently hard to measure and assess within a systematic framework. One approach to studying deliberation empirically is to apply textual analysis to the verbatim transcripts from committee meetings. In studying American monetary policy decision making, this methodology has proven valuable for gaining insights into both the policy meetings of the Federal Open MarketCommittee and the conduct of oversight by congressional committees. Parliament is especially important for select committee activity, given the much greater prominence of these committees following the key reforms of 2010 which among other things, created the election of committee members and chairs, thereby stripping the power of the party whips to appoint these members and thereby lent the committees greater autonomy in holding the Government to account[6], and even (more rarely) triggering resignations by top officials (most recently, the resignation of a newly appointed Bank of England deputy governor [7]).The findings from textual analysis are instructive as to the depth and breadth of arguments used by policymakers in their defence of policy actions. In particular, this analysis finds that deliberation in fiscal policy hearings contrasts sharply with deliberation in monetary policy and financial stability hearings, and moreover, the deliberation conducted by MPs in the Commons committee also contrasts systematically from that conducted by peers in the Lords committee. The context for these differences in content will be described further below, but the point here is that while textual analysis is effective in empirically measuring the deliberative content, it provides no information as to the delivery of these arguments within a deliberative setting. In short, the written 4 record provides us with the semantic content of deliberation, but not the underlying interpersonal dynamic of the committee hearing. Measuring nonverbal behaviour promises a means to gauge better both the emotive tone of the arguments but also the nature of the intentions of the witnesses appearing before each committee, witnesses whose credibility and inten...

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Political leadership, a quasi-experimental study of Peruvian voters’ emotional reaction and visual attention to political humor

Ortigueira-Sánchez

Cárdenas-Egúsquiza

2021

Int Rev Public Nonprofit Mark

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Estudio de opinión realizado por Ipsos Opinión y Mercado S.A., en exclusividad para El Comercio del 26 al 27 de mayo de 2016 a 1815 personas (para el caso del Simulacro) y 1812 personas (para el caso de la Encuesta Nacional Urbano Rural) mayores de 18 años residentes de 24 departamentos más la provincia Constitucional del Callao, 76 provincias y 105 localidades del país.El método de muestreo fue polietápico. Los estratos se definen por el cruce de la variable región geográfica y ámbito. En cada estrato se seleccionó una muestra de localidades y dentro de ellas, zonas con inicio aleatorio de manzanas. Se realizó un muestreo sistemático de viviendas en cada manzana y se aplicaron cuotas de sexo y edad para la selección de personas El tamaño de muestra y el diseño muestral aplicado permiten realizar estimaciones con un margen de error máximo de ± 2.3 puntos porcentuales asumiendo un nivel de confianza del 95% Ver ficha completa en www.ipsos.pe

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“Please Clap”: Applause, Laughter, and Booing during the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary Debates

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

Nonverbal contention and contempt in U.K. parliamentary oversight hearings on fiscal and monetary policy

Political leadership, a quasi-experimental study of Peruvian voters’ emotional reaction and visual attention to political humor

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