Forbes Magazine concludes that Trump’s sniffing was noticeable when he threatened presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with prison: a threat that can be considered inappropriate and personal and therefore an emotional sniff was used.
Read the article Donald Trump's Sniffling During Debates: An Alternative Theory on Forbes’s website.
Lisa Flower's article The (un)emotional law student (PDF)
The article has now been downloaded over 900 times since the first debate on September 25th and is still the most downloaded research output from Lund University this year.
Lisa Flower’s personal page