APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

I Love Trump… I Hate Trump: Ambivalence Towards the 45th President

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Social

  • James Camparo
    The Aerospace Corporation
  • Lorinda Camparo
    Whittier College
  • Ingrid Morales
    Whittier College

Abstract

President Trump has been labeled “polarizing”; however, this polarization may actually be indicative of ambivalence. Using the density matrix, we found Democrats, Republicans and Independents all exhibited ambivalence about Trump, though Independents showed more ambivalence than Democrats. With 42% of voters identifying as Independent, the results have broad sociopolitical implications.

Attitude

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