When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media

• Marrissa D. Grant,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Alexandra Flores,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Eric J. Pedersen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• David K. Sherman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Leaf Van Boven

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vanboven@colorado.edu

  Affiliation University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4187-8779

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