I checked 7 public opinion journals on Thursday, October 22, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period October 15 to October 21, I found 7 new paper(s) in 5 journal(s).

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

The decline and comeback of center-right parties in Turkey? A comparative perspective
Kursat Cinar
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Affective polarization and support for democratic principles in Israel
Shingo Hamanaka
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Journal of Official Statistics

Book Review: Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts BishopChristopher M.BishopHugh, Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts, Springer: New York, NY, 2024; 649 pp.: ISBN: 978-3-031-45467-7
Mehdi Dagdoug
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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology

Survey Behavior and Cognition Across the Life Course: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Malak B Kalasho, Esther M Friedman, Thomas F Crossley
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Cognitive abilities across adulthood are important pre-cursors to dementia. The primary way to capture cognitive abilities is via expensive and time-consuming standardized cognitive tests. We explore the extent to which cognition can be inferred from indicators of survey response behavior (SRB), say, the time to complete a questionnaire and the incidence of contradictory responses. We use nationally representative data from a mixed-mode supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics collected in 2016. This Wellbeing and Daily Life supplement includes rich cognitive data capturing both verbal and quantitative reasoning, and paradata from the supplement (e.g., time to complete). We assess the ability of survey response behavior to improve prediction of cognitive ability after accounting for standard sociodemographic variables typically available in surveys. We explore this from age 30 and across the life course. We find that SRB measures provide modest but consistent explanatory power across a wide range of ages. The explanatory power of SRB measures in our data is less than that of education, except at the oldest ages. SRB measures contain useful additional information, but models that include basic demographics, education and SRB measures leave much of the variation in cognitive ability unexplained. Which SRB measures best predict cognitive ability is consistent across cognitive measure but differs by age. Errors (i.e., contradictory responses) and response times are the best predictors at working ages but skips and backups are more predictive at older ages.

Politics, Groups, and Identities

Group discrimination and personal experiences: how racialized identities shape political trust
Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath, Daniel Stevens
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Public Opinion Quarterly

Attitudes Toward LGB and TGD Rights in Latin America
Oscar Castorena, Eli G Rau, Valerie Schweizer-Robinson, Elizabeth J Zechmeister
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Research on attitudes toward transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals lags behind research on opinion on the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) population, leaving open questions about public opinion on these two LGBTQ+ subgroups, in general and in particular in the Global South. While a sizeable gap exists in US public opinion toward TGD and LGB rights, we do not know whether that finding is generalizable to other contexts. With a focus on Latin America, we draw on a range of scholarship to identify factors that could result in a similar divergence of attitudes toward these subgroups or, instead, relative convergence. Our analyses focus primarily on novel survey data from representative surveys across thirteen Latin American countries. Our results demonstrate a fair amount of convergence in mean levels, item nonresponse rates, and predictors of views on LGB versus TGD rights. We present some notable differences across countries and issues, with results for the former (countries) varying by socio-political context and the latter (issues) varying across political and nonpolitical domains. We identify these patterns as constituting a future agenda for researchers of opinion on LGBTQ+ topics. We conclude that, in the contemporary period, the Latin American public holds fairly similar mental schemas toward LGB and TGD groups.
How the Public Makes Sense of Gender Politics: Textual, Emotional, and Symbolic Dimensions
Marta Fraile, Nerea Gándara-Guerra, Paula Zuluaga-Borrero
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How do ordinary citizens make sense of gender politics? While research has examined public support for feminism and gender equality either separately or as interchangeable concepts, far less is known about the meanings citizens attach to these labels and whether they evoke distinct political meanings. This article compares the textual, emotional, and symbolic associations of three related but distinct framings of gender politics: feminism, gender equality, and equality between men and women. Drawing on an original pre-registered survey experiment in Spain, respondents were randomly assigned to define and evaluate one of the three labels, allowing us to analyze their meanings across textual, emotional, and visual dimensions. We find that while most respondents express sympathy toward all three labels, feminism stands as the most contested. Feminism also has the sharpest sociopolitical profile, eliciting greater support from young, highly educated, progressive women. Text analyses reveal that the public frames feminism in terms of collective action, conflict, and women’s identity, drawing heavily on political language, while the other two labels emphasize policy and material concerns. Emotionally, gender politics elicits more positive than negative responses across all three labels, though men report slightly higher negative emotions toward feminism. Feminism is also the only label consistently associated with images of women’s mobilization and protest, reinforcing its distinctively political resonance. These findings show that feminism and gender equality tap related but meaningfully distinct constructs in the public mind, with implications for how scholars measure attitudes toward gender politics and interpret public support for equality-related policies.