About

Stephen C. Craig is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1979. His major areas of interest include attitude measurement, campaigns and elections, survey research, and other aspects of public opinion and political behavior in the United States. Professor Craig's research includes examining citizens' attitudes about sexual harassment in the #MeToo era, using innovative experimental research designs to analyze how people react to allegations of harassment against a fictional member of Congress. His work considers variations in reactions based on the offender's party affiliation, gender, and response to the allegations. This research offers a timely analysis of an important political issue and is appropriate for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Economics
• Pathology
• Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Medicine
• Political economy
• Criminology
• Demographic economics
• Medical physics

Selected publications

• To vote or not to vote? Fake news, voter fraud, and support for postponing the 2020 U.S. presidential election

  Politics &amp Policy · 2024-01-26 · 8 citations

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  Abstract Prior to the 2020 election President Trump suggested the election should be postponed “until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote.” With the COVID‐19 pandemic leading many states to take steps that made it easier for citizens to vote safely, the president and his allies made numerous false claims about voter fraud; others argued that voter fraud is not common and is unlikely to appreciably increase with greater reliance on mail balloting. We rely on a national Internet‐based survey experiment conducted prior to the 2020 election to assess the effectiveness of both messages on citizens' support for a hypothetical proposal to postpone the presidential election. The results suggest that respondents were more likely to support postponement if they received a fake news message that fraud is common. The results also suggest that these effects are conditional; both political party and knowledge moderate the relationship. Related Articles Aguado, N. Alexander. 2022. “When Charismatic Leadership Trumps Social Networking: Searching for the Effects of Social Media on Beliefs of Electoral Legitimacy.” Politics & Policy 50(5): 942–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12494 . Fisher, Patrick. 2020. “Generational Replacement and the Impending Transformation of the American Electorate.” Politics & Policy 48(1): 38–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12340 . Stockemer, Daniel. 2013. “Corruption and Turnout in Presidential Elections: A Macro‐Level Quantitative Analysis.” Politics & Policy 41(2): 189–212. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12012 .

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• Opportunities and Advances in Radiomics and Radiogenomics for Pediatric Medulloblastoma Tumors

  Diagnostics · 2023 · 13 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medicine

  Recent advances in artificial intelligence have greatly impacted the field of medical imaging and vastly improved the development of computational algorithms for data analysis. In the field of pediatric neuro-oncology, radiomics, the process of obtaining high-dimensional data from radiographic images, has been recently utilized in applications including survival prognostication, molecular classification, and tumor type classification. Similarly, radiogenomics, or the integration of radiomic and genomic data, has allowed for building comprehensive computational models to better understand disease etiology. While there exist excellent review articles on radiomics and radiogenomic pipelines and their applications in adult solid tumors, in this review article, we specifically review these computational approaches in the context of pediatric medulloblastoma tumors. Based on our systematic literature research via PubMed and Google Scholar, we provide a detailed summary of a total of 15 articles that have utilized radiomic and radiogenomic analysis for survival prognostication, tumor segmentation, and molecular subgroup classification in the context of pediatric medulloblastoma. Lastly, we shed light on the current challenges with the existing approaches as well as future directions and opportunities with using these computational radiomic and radiogenomic approaches for pediatric medulloblastoma tumors.

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• Revisiting the Profile of Patients with No Fixed Abode Admitted to Psychiatric Inpatient Units, 2017-2021.

  PubMed · 2023-06-29 · 2 citations

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• Two Sides of the Coin: Women, Men, and the Politics of Sexual Harassment

  Journal of Women Politics & Policy · 2022-01-06 · 2 citations

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  History tells us that elected leaders who are tainted by scandal often pay a political price for their behavior. In the past few years, such allegations of sexual harassment have engulfed a large number of political (as well as entertainment, business, and even academic) figures. Many were forced to resign their positions, while others chose to end their campaigns for election or reelection. While the great majority of harassment victims are women, there are a few instances where the sex roles have been reversed – and with more women running for and winning public office (and thereby gaining positions of power and authority), it is possible that we will see more such role reversals in the future. Our study uses data from an internet-based survey of registered voters to examine citizens’ attitudes about sexual harassment and the extent to which those attitudes shape their reactions when allegations of harassment are made against a fictional member of Congress. With an innovative experimental design, we will examine whether reactions vary with (a) either the target’s or the voter’s gender or (b) the former’s response to the allegations of sexual misconduct made against him/her (denial, apology, counterframe).

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• Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: COVID, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem

  Social Science Quarterly · 2021-12-09 · 4 citations

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  Abstract Objective As the coronavirus pandemic raged throughout 2020 , political leaders faced a difficult choice: Should strict social distancing guidelines be maintained until the threat posed by COVID‐19 was diminished enough for citizens to return to their regular activities? Or was the economic disruption caused by the pandemic something that was, according to President Trump, "worse than the problem itself"? Methods We analyze data from a 2020 survey of registered voters. Results Democrats were more likely than Republicans to resolve the tradeoff in favor of maintaining social distancing over rebuilding the economy . More importantly, we find that when faced with this moral dilemma (measured by one's choice between a utilitarian vs. a deontological approach when confronted with a real‐life "trolley problem"), many citizens from both sides of the partisan aisle were of two minds on the subject. Conclusion Americans are ambivalent about the appropriate government response to COVID‐19.

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• Partisan Ambivalence and Electoral Decision Making

  American Review of Politics · 2020-01-31 · 3 citations

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  American politics today is driven largely by deep divisions between Democrats and Republicans. That said, there are many people who view the opposition in an overwhelmingly negative light – but who simultaneously possess a mix of positive and negative feelings toward their own party. This paper is a response to prior research (e.g., Lavine, Johnson, and Steenbergen 2012) indicating that such ambivalence increases the probability that voters will engage in "deliberative" (or "effortful") rather than "heuristic" thinking when responding to the choices presented to them in political campaigns. We extend the logic of this argument to a hypothetical race for Congress, using data from a survey experiment to determine whether a high degree of ambivalence toward one's party makes voters more responsive to a negative attack against the candidate of that party. In fact, we find little evidence that partisan ambivalence promotes a deliberative response to negative campaign ads.

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• Eye of the Beholder: Partisanship, Identity, and the Politics of Sexual Harassment

  Political Behavior · 2020 · 19 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
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• Who Owns What, and Why? The Origins of Issue Ownership Beliefs

  Politics &amp Policy · 2020 · 15 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Social psychology

  Most research on issue ownership examines the topic as an independent variable that may shape campaign strategy or voter behavior. In contrast, our study looks at ownership as a dependent variable. Specifically, we employ a national Internet survey of registered U.S. voters to gauge the extent to which such judgments are influenced by individual‐level factors other than partisan identity. We find that while partisanship shapes ownership beliefs to a considerable degree, policy preferences and performance evaluations have significant effects across a range of valence and position issues. While feelings of ambivalence toward the in‐ or out‐party do not have a consistent effect on ownership beliefs, higher out‐party ambivalence reduces the probability that citizens will identify their own party as owning most issues. It is therefore premature, and probably incorrect, to assume that perceived ownership is little more than an expression of a person's partisan attachment or intended vote. Related Articles Bernick, Ethan M., and Nathan Myers. 2012. “Issue Salience, Party Strength, and the Adoption of Health‐Care Expansion Efforts.” Politics & Policy 40 (1): 131‐159. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00340.x Grossmann, Matt. 2014. “The Varied Effects of Policy Cues on Partisan Opinions.” Politics & Policy 42 (6): 881‐904. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12102 Kim, Eun Kyung. 2019. “Issue Ownership and Strategic Policy Choice in Multiparty Africa.” Politics & Policy 47 (5): 956‐983. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12327 Related Media Brenan, Megan. 2019. “Democrats Maintain Favorability Edge over Republicans.” September 30. https://news.gallup.com/poll/267122/democrats-maintain-favorability-edge-republicans.aspx Hook, Janet. 2018. “Tax Overhaul Remains Unpopular, Poll Shows.” April 16. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-overhaul-remains-unpopular-poll-shows-1523912555 Pew Research Center. 2015. “GOP’s Favorability Rating Takes a Negative Turn.” July 23. https://www.people-press.org/2015/07/23/gops-favorability-rating-takes-a-negative-turn/

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• Citizens: Is Anybody Listening?

  2019-07-11

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• A Crisis of Confidence?

  2019-07-11

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael D. Martinez

  University of Florida

  21 shared

• Robin Howard

  National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

  16 shared

• Cedric Maj

  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

  16 shared

• B Burch

  U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

  16 shared

• Col Henry

  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

  16 shared

• Barbara Solomon

  Spitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgenta Sibiu

  16 shared

• Frederic Ltc

  U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

  16 shared

• Victor Bernet

  Jacksonville College

  16 shared