The Lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP) is an interdisciplinary research team of scholars studying character assassination. It was founded in 2016 in cooperation with the International Society for the Study of Character Assassination (ISSCA).
The Research Lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP) includes scholars with disciplinary homes in psychology, history, communication and public relations. With investigators from both George Mason University and the University of Amsterdam, the CARP team focuses efforts along 3 main dimensions: research on historical and contemporary examples of character assassination; education for academic and public audiences about character assassination causes, impacts and prevention; and risk assessment to determine vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies for public figures concerned about their reputations.
Recent Publications
Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications
By Eric B. Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, Sergei A. Samoilenko, 2021 The first textbook in the field of study offers the original …
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Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management
Edited by Sergei A. Samoilenko, Martijn Icks, Jennifer Keohane, Eric B. Shiraev, 2020. The Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and …
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Character Assassination throughout the Ages
Edited by Martijn Icks and Eric Shiraev Using a variety of cases from history and today’s life, the book …
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