Current Research
- Matt Cravens, a graduate student in political science, is studying the role of habit in voting, including psychological mechanisms underlying habitual voting and mobilization techniques that increase turnout for non-habitual voters.
- Social psychology graduate student Grace Deason is studying gender-based strategies in political campaigns, the origins of political ideology in authoritarianism and beliefs about the family, and lay perceptions of race-conscious government policies. She is also studying gender stereotyping in the workplace and in labor and employment arbitration.
- Political science graduate student Caitlin Dwyer's dissertation examines the state and party rules that govern Presidential primaries and the impact of those rules on nomination outcomes, candidate strategies, and voter turnout.
- Damla Ergun, a graduate student in social psychology, is investigating the intersection between affect and political decision-making and attitudes.
- Graduate student in social psychology Erik Girvan is studying the effects of implicit attitudes in the context of jurisprudential and quasi-jurisprudential decision making and investigating procedures for countering any biasing effects that may exist.
- Social psychology graduate student Corrie Hunt is exploring the relationship between emotional reactions and the structure of political attitudes.
- Chris Miler in social psychology is studying social influences and political participation.
- Geoff Sheagley and David Forrest, graduate students in political science, are integrating theories of framing from social movements and political psychology. Geoff is also studying the motivated reasoning and negativity bias in the evaluation of political candidates.
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