Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Chair: Raymond D. Duvall

Center for the Study of Political Psychology

Welcome to the Center for the Study of Political Psychology (CSPP).  Located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities, the Center is dedicated to the establishment of a strong research community for social scientists focused on the theoretical and practical advancement of political psychology.

CSPP is widely regarded as one of the premier research and graduate training centers in the United States. CSPP receives support from the Graduate School and College of Liberal Arts, as well as three individual departments: Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology and School of Journalism and Mass Communication. To read more about CSPP, click here. To read more about the Center's affiliated PhD minor, click here.

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Upcoming Events

  • On Dec. 4, 2009, Prof. Howard Lavine, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Prof. David Redlawsk, from Rutgers University, will be participating in a symposium on dual-process models and candidate evaluation.  The focus will be on how citizens process information and how differences in processing influence how citizens evaluate and select political candidates.  In a morning session and an afternoon session, they will be giving presentations about their own perspectives on the topic. Faculty affiliated with the CSPP will serve as discussants for the presentations and facilitate discussion with members of the political psychology proseminar as well as others who attend the talk.  The morning session will take place from 9:30-11:00 and the afternoon session from 3:30-5:00.  Both sessions will take place in the Lippincott Room, Social Science Tower room 1314. More details will be posted as they become available.   

Kudos

  • Angie Bos (CSPP alum 2007, advisor: John L. Sullivan) has won the Best Dissertation in Social and Behavioral Science awarded by the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota.Congratulations to both Angie and Professor Sullivan! Her dissertation is entitled "Stereotypes at the Gate? The Influence of Legal and Institutional Rules on Evaluations of Women Candidates in Candidate Nominations"
  • Alina Oxendine (Ph.D., Political Science, 2007) has won the first annual Best Dissertation Award by the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) for her dissertation entitled "Inequality and Isolation: How economic stratification harms social capital" in Paris, July 2008. The dissertation project is completed under the direction of John L. Sullivan (Chair), Wendy Rahn, Eugene Borgida and Larry Jacobs.

News Archives

  • On May 1, 2009, Prof. Scott L. Althaus, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented the following talk: "Are America's Wars Really Won on Television? Debunkin the Spin Myth."
  • On March 27, Professor Linda Skitka from University of Illinois at Chicago gave a presentation at the CSPP Colloquium entitled: " The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction". This talk was co-sponsored by the Ph.D. minor in Political Psychology and the Center for the Study of Political Psychology.
  • On Thursday, Sept.11, Professor Alice Eagly from Northwestern University gave a presentation at the CSPP Colloquium, entitled "Women as Leaders: Negotiating the Labyrinth". This talk was co-sponsored by the Ph.D. minor in Political Psychology and the Center for the Study of Political Psychology.
  • On Friday, Sept. 19, Professor Susan Fiske from Princeton University gave a presentation at the CSPP Colloquium, entitled "Peril of Prejudice: Universal Biases in Mind, Brain and Culture". This talk was co-sponsored by the Ph.D. minor in Political Psychology and the Center for the Study of Political Psychology.
  • Angie Bos has defended her dissertation entitled "Stereotypes at the Gate? The Influence of Legal and Institutional Rules on Evaluations of Women Candidates in Candidate Nominations" in July 2007. In fall 2007, she has begun a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of gender and politics, civic education, political participation, and media and politics.
  • Monica Schneider has started as an Assistant Professor of Political Science starting in August, 2007 at Miami University of Ohio in Oxford, OH. She teaches Public Opinion/Political Psychology, Campaigns and Elections, Media and Politics, and Statistics. Her research interests include political psychology, campaigns and elections, media and politics, and survey research methodology.
  • Justin Wedeking accepted a tenure track position as an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. Justin teaches courses on judicial politics and the law. His dissertation focused on issue framing and decision making on the U.S. Supreme Court. Justin's general research interests include judicial politics, political psychology, and research design. More specifically, they included Judicial Process, Supreme Court Behavior & Decision Making, Courts in American Society, Public Opinion, Voting and Participation, ideology and sophistication, and Survey Methodology.

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