Barack Obama and Modern American Caricature

Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008

On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama [5] replaced Republican George W. Bush [6] as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush?s 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells [7]. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos ...

Fertility and race perception predict voter preference for Barack Obama

Research shows that women more positively evaluate targets evincing cues of high male genetic quality as a function of fertility across the menstrual cycle. Recently, a link between fertility and anti-black race bias has also been documented, an effect that is argued to serve a sexual coercion avoidance function. Here we demonstrate that both effects can be operative toward the same male target...

Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama.

The current study considered the influence of the 2008 presidential election on the racial identity of African American college students (M(age) = 19.3 years; 26.3% male). The design of the study consisted of 2 components: longitudinal and daily. The longitudinal component assessed 3 dimensions of racial identity (centrality, private regard, and public regard) 2 weeks before and 5 months after ...

Positive emotions and the social broadening effects of Barack Obama.

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompt...

Barack Obama, Margarita Lopez Torres, and the Path to Nomination