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Public discourse surrounding the U.S. 2020 Presidential Election has involved the application of stereotypes of older adults, older men, and male leaders to the two main political party candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Thus, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election offers a unique opportunity to examine how endorsement of stereotypes of older adults, older men, and male leaders impact expectations of the candidate's job performance and intentions to vote for Biden or Trump. The proposed online study will involve college students from two universities in the tri-state area (medium-sized state university, small private university) in late September until Election Day. This study aims to test two models: (1) a model that predicts greater intentions to vote for Biden, and (2) a model that predicts greater intentions to vote for Trump. In each model, we examine the relationship between (a) stereotypes that have been applied to each candidate in public discourse (i.e., regarding older adults, male leadership, and older male stereotypes) with (b) expectations of that candidate’s performance as next president, which then lead to (c) a voting stance of different degrees of being pro-Biden, anti-Biden, pro-Trump, and/or anti-Trump, which ultimately lead to (d) greater intentions to vote for one candidate over the other candidate. In each model, we will control for political ideology, which is consistent with past research (Lytle et al., 2018) and control for gender, which is consistent with past research on voting intentions (Johnson et al., 2008). |
