Howard Lavine
101 Pleasant St. S.E.
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Howard Lavine is former Associate Dean of the Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and former Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology. He also held the Arleen C. Carlson Professorship between 2011-2024. He is currently a non-resident Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Citizens and Scholars in Princeton, NJ. His work centers on the psychological underpinnings of mass political behavior. He is the author of Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the editor of The Feeling, Thinking Citizen (Routledge, 2017) and Political Psychology (Sage, 2010). He has published articles in The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Cognition, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He is the past editor of the journals Political Psychology and Advances in Political Psychology, ad is currently working on a book (Status Threat: The Core of Reactionary Politics with Chris Parker). He has won numerous awards for his books and articles, and in 2004 he won the Erik Erikson (now Jim Sidanius) Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. He plays the Irish whistle along with other assorted instruments used in Irish traditional music.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1994
- M.S.: Psychology, Tufts University, 1990
- B.S.: Psychology , New York University, 1986