Announcements

Second annual Political Psychology Pre-Conference, August 31, 2016

On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 the section hosted the second annual pre-conference in Political Psychology at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

The day featured a great slate of speakers, an interesting roundtable on political psychology and the 2016 presidential race, an array of impressive posters from junior scholars, as well as some lively discussions about political psychology.

Thanks go out to our sponsors, Wiley and the Behavioral Foundations Lab at Temple University, as well as our conference host, Kevin Arceneaux and Temple University.  Thanks also to all who shared their work, as well as those who helped plan the event.

We hope to see you at the third Political Psychology Pre-Conference at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco!

Section business meeting and this year’s section award winners

Please plan to attend the business meeting for the Political Psychology section at this year’s APSA meeting in Philadelphia.  It will be held on Thursday, September 1, from 6:30 p.m.  to 7:30 p.m. in the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, room 309.

One important part of our business meeting is to recognize some of the best work being currently done in political psychology, by celebrating and congratulating the winners of this year’s section awards.

Robert E. Lane Award

The Robert E. Lane Award is given by the Political Psychology section to recognize the best book in political psychology published in the past year.  This year, we have two winning selections:  Bethany Albertson and Shana Gadarian’s Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World and Stuart J. Kaufman’s Nationalist Passions.  Congratulations!

Thanks also to Kent Jennnings, Beth Miller Vonnahme, and Daniel Myers for all of their excellent efforts in selecting the winners of the award.

Best Paper Award  

Eric Groenendyk and Yanna Krupnikov’s paper, “What Motivates Reasoning?  A Goal-Oriented Theory of Political Evaluation,” was selected as winner of the section’s Best Paper Award.  Congrats to both authors!

Many thanks to David Redlawsk, Brendan Nyhan, and Michael Tesler for all of their time and service to this award committee.

Best Dissertation Award

Congratulations to Eun Bin Chung for winning the section’s Best Dissertation Award!

Her dissertation, “Overcoming the History Problem: Group-Affirmation in International Relations” was selected from a slate of excellent submissions. Thanks also to the award committee of Zoe Oxley, Elizabeth Suhay, and Timothy Ryan for all of their efforts!

Distinguished Junior Scholars Awards

Three winners were selected to be recognized with Distinguished Junior Scholars Awards.  This award is given to graduate students and junior scholars to help fund their travel to the APSA annual meeting.

This year’s winners are D.J. Flynn, Matthew Ward, and Tarah Williams. Congratulations to all, and thanks to Casey Klofstad, Monica Schneider, and Cengiz Erisen for all of their efforts in selecting the winners.

Second annual Political Psychology Pre-Conference

Please plan to attend the second annual Political Psychology Pre-Conference, to be held in conjunction with this year’s annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia.

The pre-conference will take place Wednesday, August 31 at Temple University’s main campus.  This day-long event will feature some of the best current research being done at the intersection of political science and psychology.  The pre-conference program includes a diverse set of interdisciplinary presentations as well as a roundtable discussion about political psychology and the 2016 presidential election.  Junior scholars are invited to apply to share their work in poster sessions that day.  Lunch will be provided as part of the registration fee, and all participants are invited to a reception that will follow the event.

Presenters at the pre-conference will include:

  • Jonathan Baron, (University of Pennsylvania, Psychology)
  • Daniel Corstange, (Columbia University, Political Science)
  • Diana Mutz (University of Pennsylvania, Political Science and Communication)
  • Jaime Settle (College of William & Mary, Political Science)
  • Michael Tesler (University of California at Irvine, Political Science)

Presenters at the 2016 presidential election roundtable include Matt Barreto (UCLA), Stanley Feldman (Stony Brook), Marc Hetherington (Vanderbilt), Ashley Jardina (Duke), Samara Klar (Arizona), and Ismail White (GWU).

To learn more about the pre-conference, visit http://web.apsanet.org/s28/2016-political-psychology-pre-conference/

If you are interested in sharing your work by presenting a poster, please submit an abstract for your project here by Monday, May 16:  http://ucsas.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9ufKTwK0MXFC5X7

Call for nominations

The deadline is approaching for nominations for awards for the section.

The Political Psychology section of the APSA will give several awards at the 2016 annual meeting in Philadelphia:

  • the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology in 2015
  • the Best Paper Award for the best paper in political psychology presented at the 2015 APSA meeting
  • the Best Dissertation Award

If you’ve read a great new book in political psychology, advised a terrific dissertation project, or saw an excellent paper on a panel at APSA, please consider nominating scholars for these awards.  Self-nominations are of course welcome.

The deadline for nominations is March 7, 2016.  Details of the awards follow.

 

Robert E. Lane Award


The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.  Send your nominations to the members of the committee.

Award Committee

Kent Jennings (chair), University of California, Santa Barbara, jennings@polsci.ucsb.edu

Beth Miller Vonnahme, University of Missouri, Kansas City, vonnahmeb@umkc.edu

Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota,  cdmyers@umn.edu


 

Best Paper Award


The Best Paper Award is given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year’s Annual Meeting.

Award Committee

David Redlawsk (chair), Rutgers University, redlawsk@rutgers.edu

Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College, nyhan@dartmouth.edu

Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine, mtesler@uci.edu


 

Best Dissertation Award


The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

To nominate a dissertation, send an electronic copy of the dissertation to the members of the committee. Self-nominations are accepted. All nominations should include a letter of support from the chair of the dissertation committee that addresses the contribution of the dissertation to the field of political psychology.

Award Committee

Zoe Oxley (chair), Union College, oxleyz@union.edu
Elizabeth Suhay, American University, suhay@american.edu
Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina, tjr@email.unc.edu

Save the date

The second annual Political Psychology Pre-Conference will be held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, before the start of the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, PA.

This year’s event will be hosted by Kevin Arceneaux at Temple University.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend!

Syllabus archive added to site

The Political Psychology section website is now home to an archive of political psychology syllabuses!

http://web.apsanet.org/s28/syllabuses

Hopefully this will prove to be a useful resource to us all as we develop new courses or revise existing courses in political psychology.

Thanks to everyone who has agreed to post their syllabuses to the site!  If you would like to contribute your syllabus to the archive, please e-mail a copy or a link to the section’s communication director, Matthew Wright, at mwright@american.edu

Political Psychology Pre-Conference

On Wednesday, September 2, the section hosted the first pre-conference in Political Psychology at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

The day featured an outstanding slate of speakers, impressive posters from junior scholars, and lively discussion about political psychology.  We had excellent participation and look forward to another successful pre-conference in 2016.

Thanks to Jack Glaser, (UC Berkeley, Psychology), Ryan Enos, (Harvard University, Government), Robb Willer (Stanford, Sociology), Bethany Albertson, (UT Austin, Political Science), and Michael Bang Petersen, (Aarhus University, Political Science) for sharing their work.

If you are interested in reading the papers presented at the pre-conference, visit:

https://sites.google.com/site/2015preconf/papers

Thanks to Leonie Huddy, Sanne Rijkhoff, and Emily Thorson for all of their efforts in organizing the First Political Psychology Pre-conference!

Thanks also to the International Society of Political Psychology for their sponsorship of this event

If you are interested in helping organize the second Political Psychology Pre-Conference at the 2016 APSA meeting in Philadelphia, please contact jennifer.wolak@colorado.edu

2015 Winners of Political Psychology Section Awards

The business meeting for the Political Psychology section will be held this year on Friday, September 4 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. (location to be announced).

Please plan to attend and congratulate winners of this year’s section awards. 

Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award

The Political Psychology section will award the first Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award at the 2015 annual meeting.  This award was introduced at last year’s business meeting as a way to recognize scholars whose lifetime scholarship and service to the profession has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political psychology.

David O. Sears (University of California, Los Angeles) has been selected as the first to receive this recognition.  Professor Sears has made innumerable contributions to the study of political psychology across many areas of research, from the psychology of racism, symbolic politics, and political socialization, among others.  As one nomination letter puts it, “Professor Sears has forged a legacy from which all students of political psychology, present and future will always benefit.”

Thanks to the award committee of Tali Mendelberg, Thomas Leeper, and Kathleen Searles for all of their service to this committee and the section.

Robert E. Lane Award
The Robert E. Lane Award is given by the Political Psychology section to recognize the best book in political psychology published in the past year.  Congratulations to Christopher F. Karpowitz (Brigham Young University) and Tali Mendelberg (Princeton University) for being selected as this year’s winners for their book, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions, published by Princeton University Press.

Thanks to the efforts of Laura Stoker, David Doherty, and Shana Gadarian for all of their excellent efforts in selecting a winner of the award.

Best Paper Award
Samara Klar (University of Arizona) was selected as winner of the section’s Best Paper Award for her paper, “When Common Identities Fuel Affective Polarization: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women.”  Congrats!

Many thanks to Steven Greene, Rebecca J. Hannagan, Kyle Saunders, and Rune Slothuus for all of their time and service to this award committee.

Best Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Timothy J. Ryan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) for winning the section’s Best Dissertation Award!

His dissertation, “No Compromise: The Politics of Moral Conviction” was selected from a slate of excellent submissions by the award committee of Stephen Nicholson, Eric Groenendyk, and Samara Klar.  Great job, Tim, and thanks to the committee for all of their efforts!

Distinguished Junior Scholars Award
Five winners were selected to be recognized with Distinguished Junior Scholars Awards.  This award is given to graduate students and junior scholars to help fund their travel to the APSA annual meeting.

This year’s winners are:

Alexa Bankert  (Stony Brook University)
Nichole Bauer  (University of Alabama)
Christopher J. Ojeda (Pennsylvania State University)
Douglas Pierce (Rutgers University)
Eike Mark Rinke (University of Mannheim)

Congratulations to all, and thanks go to Jeffery Mondak, Antoine Banks, and Mark Ramirez for all of their efforts in selecting the winners.