UMN Alumni, Geoff Sheagley explains racial resentment and Hurricane Sandy and the spillover of racial attitudes into evaluations of government organizations. Watch the video!
Benjamin Toff was one of two winners for the 2018 Heinz Eulau Award for best article published in Perspectives on Politics for the previous calendar year. His article is titled “The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence.”
Joe Vitriol awarded Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award (2017-2018; competitive international award across the behavioral sciences) for his dissertation titled: “The (In)Egalitarian Self: On the Motivated Rejection of Alleged Implicit Racial Bias.”
Why do campaigns "go negative," and are they effective? UMN alumni, Matt Motta, discusses what recent research in political communication has to say on these questions.
Philip Chen, UMN alumni and assistant professor of political science at Beloit College joins Kerri Miller to discuss the results of Minnesota’s 2018 primaries.
Howard Lavine and Wendy Rahn published a New York Times OpEd yesterday (July 2, 2018), using public opinion data to unpack the consequences of President Trump's appeals to anti-immigrant sentiment.
Three alumni of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology have an exciting new article in press at Electoral Studies. In it, they employ data from the 2016 Minnesota Multi-investigator study to replicate their dual-process account of candidate trait evaluation.
The Center for the Study of Political Psychology (CSPP) and the American Politics Colloquium invite undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff from the UMN to our spring...
