Social/personality profs who study political ideology?

[lawgrad]

I'm beginning to research social/personality psych professors who do research in the domain of political psychology -- particularly who study political ideology. Can anyone provide suggestions of people that I might investigate as a possible graduate advisors?

Thanks.

[socialpsych]

Jost, Banaji, Haidt, and Sidanius are a few who come to mind. But that's just based on what they've written; I'm not sure what they're doing now or how active they are.

[MacDuff]

Hi, lawgrad.

You may want to check out the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) membership directory to start. I know that political psych professors are sometimes housed in different departments at universities (i.e., not always in psych departments) so it's best to check around in the social science and political science areas, too.

Good luck!

[SharperImage]

Yeah, also check this page out on the ISPP site; it'll give you an idea of specific programs that are oriented toward this kind of research...and there aren't too many (just yet):

http://ispp.org/programs.html

Send me a PM if you have any specific questions. I applied to Irvine's Pol Psych program, and I have some general knowledge regarding this field of study and professors that focus on this sort of thing. As the previous poster touched on, the Irvine program program is offered through the Political Science department, not the Psych department.

[jk1]

hey there,

The overarching focus of Professor Alan Lambert’s research at WUSTL is the cognitive and affective processes that underlie social and political judgment.

[psychapplicant10]

I know that there's a psych professor at Montana who does work in this area.

[CRodriguez]

Hey lawgrad,

 

I have the same scientific (and personal) interest in ideology. Some of the names I've been gathering in the last years: John Jost (NYU), Jim Sidanius (Harvard), Jaime Napier (Yale), Brian Nosek (UVA), Jon Haidt (NYU-Stern), Jesse Graham (USC), Pete Ditto (UC Irvine), Chris Federico (UMN), Matt Motyl (UIC), Phil Tetlock, (UPenn), Linda Skitka (UIC). From this Fall I'll be working with Ditto at Irvine.

 

In terms of programs, you have to be very open minded, because most of these professors work at social/personality departments, but there are a lot of political psychologists that are affiliated in political science, law departments, or even business departments (i.e. Haidt, Tetlock).

 

If you need further references, feel free to send me a message.

Good luck!!