Political Psychology

[mb712]

Does anyone know of any faculty members with an interdisciplinary political psychology research interest? Preferably someone who is outside of the jury decision making, incarceration, and other similar legal process concentrations. (To give you an idea of what kinds of research I would prefer: neutral substrates contributing to political affiliation, situational factors or cognitive processes that influence political affiliation, the fluidity of morality in political ideology, defensive vs offensive voting, how framing influences public policy/voting, etc.) I have spent a time looking for political psychology programs, social psychology programs with political emphasis, and people who have published in journals like Political Psychology and I have only found a couple faculty members I am interested in working with. With application deadlines quickly approaching, I am getting nervous about my limited number of options so any help would be greatly appreciated!

[lewin]

The areas you've listed are actually really broad and so I think you must  be searching in the wrong places if you're having trouble coming up with people! Or maybe your interests are more specific than it seems from the description. These are people who seem to fit your criteria just off the top of my head... they're from social psychology and business schools, mostly, so they're doing experimental psychology.

 

Travis Carter

Rosalind Chow

Matthew Feinberg

Jesse Graham

Eric Knowles

Ian McGregor

Ran Hassin

Jacob Hirsh

Jonathan Haidt

Michael Inzlict

John Jost

Aaron Kay

Kristin Laurin

Shana Levin

Brian Lowery

Leaf Van Boven

Miguel Unzueta

Drew Westen

Robb Willer

 

[mb712]

The description is way more broad than my specific research interests but I wanted to get an idea of people kind of "in the ballpark." I am not familiar with a few of the names so I will look into them. Thanks so much for the list!

Edited October 19, 2014 by mb712

[lewin]

Ahh, that makes sense. You could look for past presenters at the SPSP Political Psychology Preconference too. The current program is online and you might be able to find past programs too. Lots of good stuff gets presented there.