Proseminar for Political Psycholgy Students
About Proseminar
The Proseminar in Political Psychology is a key element of Minnesota's internationally-recognized training program in political psychology. Led each semester by a team of two faculty members drawn from different disciplines, the proseminar meets once a week throughout the course of each semester. The content of the proseminar includes a mix of readings from the classic and contemporary literatures, both theoretical and empirical in social psychology; research presentations by faculty and students associated with CSPP and the Ph.D. Minor in political psychology; visits by guest speakers from other units of the university and from outside the university; and discussions of professional issues—for example, the establishment of interdisciplinary ties, the job search process, and so on.
Besides this basic training function, the proseminar also provides students and faculty affiliated with CSPP and Ph.D. minor with a forum in which ideas can be exchanged and discussed in greater depth by individuals drawn from a variety of disciplines. As such, the proseminar is a key part of CSPP's effort to provide a more formal structure for facilitating interdisciplinary relationships and interdisciplinary work.
Fall 2009 Proseminar: Special 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 presenting papers detailing their own perspectives on the topic. Faculty affiliated with the CSPP will serve as discussants on the papers 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
The Center for the Study of Political Psychology * 1231 Social Sciences Tower * 267 19th Avenue South * Minneapolis, MN 55455 * 612-624-0864 * ppcenter@umn.edu