2025
Gervais, Bryan T., Connor Dye, Gabriel Acevedo, Christopher Ellison, and Margaret Kelley. Conditionally accepted. “Do Authoritarians Support Political Violence?” PS: Political Science & Politics.
Gervais, Bryan T. and Irwin L. Morris. Early view. “Does Inflammatory Rhetoric Boost Support for Political Violence? Considering the Role of Geographic Context.” Political Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129251370693
Gervais, Bryan T., Camilo Nieto-Matiz, and Connor Dye. 2025. “Bexar County Voter Panel Study: November 2024,” UTSA Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Gervais, Bryan T., Connor Dye, and Amber Chin.* 2025. “Incivility or Invalidity? Evaluating Perspective API Scores as a Measure of Political Incivility.” American Politics Research, 53(3), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241309627
2024
Russell, Annelise, Heather Evans, and Bryan Gervais. 2024. “Not Ready to Make Nice: Congressional Candidates’ Emotional Appeals on Twitter.” Social Science Quarterly, 105(5): 1848-1856. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13439
Wilson, Walter, Robert Preuhs and Bryan T. Gervais. 2024. “Linguistic Media Environments and Democratic Attitudes Among Latinos.” Political Communication, 41(3): 482-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2305752
Nielsen, Amie L., Margaret S. Kelley, Christopher G. Ellison, Oshea Johnson, and Bryan T. Gervais. 2024. “Cognitive and Apathetic Racism in Patterns of Gun Ownership and Gun Control Attitudes,” Sociological Inquiry, 94(1): 105-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12581
Wilson, Walter Clark, Robert R. Preuhs and Bryan T. Gervais. 2024. “Spanish Language Media Consumption and Latino Civic Engagement.” Political Research Quarterly, 77(1): 316-327. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129231209695
2023
Russell, Annelise, Heather Evans, and Bryan T. Gervais. 2023. “Good and Pissed: Gendered Emotional Appeals on Twitter.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 20(4): 422-436.
2022
Evans, Heather, Bryan T. Gervais, and Annelise Russell. 2022. “Getting Good and Mad: Exploring the Use of Anger on Twitter by Female Candidates in 2020.” in The Roads to Congress 2020, eds. Sean Foreman, Marcia Godwin, and Walter Wilson. Palgrave Macmillan.
2021
Gervais, Bryan T. 2021. “The Electoral Implications of Uncivil and Intolerant Rhetoric in American Politics.” Research & Politics 8(2): 1-10.
Gervais, Bryan T. and Irwin L. Morris. 2021. “Conservatives and Anger,” in Conservative Political Communication: How Right-Wing Media and Messaging(re)made American Politics, ed. Sharon Jarvis. Routledge.
2020
Gervais, Bryan T. Heather Evans, and Annelise Russell. 2020. “Tweeting for Hearts and Minds? Measuring Candidates’ Use of Anxiety in Tweets During the 2018 Midterm Elections,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 53(4): 652-656.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2020. Review of Disrespectful Democracy: The Psychology of Political Incivility by Emily Sydnor (Columbia University Press). The International Journal of Press/Politics 25(4): 732–34.
Gervais, Bryan T., Heather Evans, and Annelise Russell. 2020. “Pessimistic and Pissed: Congressional Candidates’ Emotional Appeals on Twitter.” 3Streams blog. July 29.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2020. "Why Trump’s racist Tweets and rhetoric will not help him win reelection." LSE US Politics and Policy blog. July 3.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2020. “Media Effects Experiments,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making, ed. David Redlawsk. Oxford University Press. (peer reviewed)
Gervais, Bryan T., Heather Evans, and Annelise Russell. 2020. “Fear and Loathing on Twitter: Exploring Negative Rhetoric in Tweets During the 2018 Midterm Election,” in The Roads to Congress 2018, eds. Sean Foreman, Marcia Godwin, and Walter Wilson. Palgrave Macmillan, 31-52.
2019
Gervais, Bryan T. 2019. “Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes.” Political Psychology 40(3): 637–55.
Gervais, Bryan T. and Walter C. Wilson. 2019. “New Media for the New Electorate? U.S. Representatives’ Use of Spanish in Tweets.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 7(2):205-323.
Gervais, Bryan, 2019, "Congressional Tweet Archive", Harvard Dataverse, V2.
Gervais, Bryan T., and Irwin L. Morris. 2019. Review of American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age. By John L. Campbell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 240p. $24.95 Cloth.” Perspectives on Politics 17(1): 212–14. (Critical dialogue)
Gervais, Bryan T., and Irwin L. Morris. 2019. Response to John L. Campbell’s Review of Reactionary Republicanism: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump’s Victory.”Perspectives on Politics 17(1). 216–216. (Critical dialogue)
2018
Gervais, Bryan T., and Irwin L. Morris. 2018. “How the Tea Party Paved the Way for Donald Trump.” Washington Post: Monkey Cage blog. September 7.
Gervais, Bryan T. and Irwin L. Morris. 2018. Reactionary Republicanism: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump’s Victory. Oxford University Press.
Review in Perspectives on Politics (critical dialogue)
Review in Congress & the Presidency
Gervais, Bryan T. 2018. “What to Tweet when the Top is Toxic? Gauging References to the 2016 Presidential Candidates in House Members' Social Media Posts,” in The Roads to Congress 2016: American Elections in a Divided Landscape, eds. Sean Foreman and Marcia Godwin. Palgrave Macmillan, 43-56.
2017
Gervais, Bryan T. 2017. “More than Mimicry? The Role of Anger in Uncivil Reactions to Elite Political Incivility.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 29(3): 384-405.
2016
Gervais, Bryan T. and Jeffrey A. Taylor. 2016. “Sub-Partisan Cues and Ideological Distinctions: The Effect of the Tea Party Label on Voter Perceptions of Congressional Candidates.” Social Science Quarterly 97(5): 1130-1143.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2016. “Political Communication,” in Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, ed. Ali Farazmand. Springer.
2015
Gervais, Bryan T. 2015. “Incivility Online: Affective and Behavioral Reactions to Uncivil Political Posts in a Web-based Experiment.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 12(2): 167-185.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2015. “Tweeting to Victory? Social Media Use and Election 2014,” in The Roads to Congress 2014, eds. Sean Foreman and Robert Dewhirst. Lexington Books, 59-72
Gervais, Bryan T. 2015. Review of In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media, by Diana Mutz (Princeton University Press) Public Opinion Quarterly 79 (4): 1017-1020
Gervais, Bryan T. 2015. “Political Incivility Online.” ISPP Junior Scholars Blog, The International Society of Political Psychologists. Jan 22.
2014
Gervais, Bryan T. 2014. “Following the News? Reception of Uncivil Partisan Media and the Use of Incivility in Political Expression.” Political Communication 31(4): 564–83.
2012
Gervais, Bryan T. and Irwin L. Morris. 2012. “Reading the Tea Leaves: Understanding Tea Party Caucus Membership in the US House of Representatives.” PS: Political Science & Politics 45(02): 245–50.
Gervais, Bryan T. 2012. Review of Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics, by Susan Herbst (Temple University Press) Journal of Politics 74(2): 18-19.