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2024
I Am Not a Hero: Heroic Action Divorces the Hero from the Political Community, Ari Kohen, Brian Riches, and Andre Sólo
2023
Wealth and risk heterogeneity effects in community-based wildlife management: Experimental evidence, Stefan Carpenter and Ursula W. Kreitmair
Elections and Post Traumatic Stress: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Timothy Fraser, Costas Panagopoulos, and Kevin Smith
Investigating Perceptions of Out-groups in Sport and United States Politics, Cody T. Havard and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
Donald Trump’s contribution to the study of politics and the life sciences, John Hibbing
Economic Values, Social Values and Cultural Animal Theory, Kevin Smith
2022
Political Identity Biases Americans’ Judgments of Outgroup Emotion, Ruby Basyouni, Nicholas R. Harp, Ingrid J. Haas, and Maital Neta
Reconceptualizing conservation, S. J. Cooke; Sarah Michaels; E. A. Nyboer; L. Schiller; D. B. R. Littlechild; D. E. L. Hanna; C. D. Robichaud; A. Murdoch; D. Roche; P. Soroye; J. C. Vermaire; V. M. Nguyen; University of Ottawa,; J. F. Provencher; P. A. Smith; G. W. Mitchell; S. Avery-Gomm; C. M. Davy; R. T. Buxton; T. Rytwinski; L. Fahrig; J. R. Bennett; and G. Auld
Black Trust in US Legislatures, ERNEST DUPREE III and John R. Hibbing
Using Political Psychology to Understand Populism, Intellectual Virtues, and Democratic Backsliding, Ingrid J. Haas
Why Do Trump’s Authoritarian Followers Resist COVID-19 Authorities? Because They Are Not Really Authoritarian Followers, John Hibbing
External Threat Environments and Individual Bias against Female Leaders, Nam Kyu Kim and Alice J. Kang
The Appointment of Women to Authoritarian Cabinets in Africa, Alex Kroeger and Alice J. Kang
Backlash against the #MeToo Movement: How Women’s Voice Causes Men to Feel Victimized, Jaclyn A. Lisnek, Clara L. Wilkins, Megan E. Wilson, and Pierce D. Ekstrom
2021
Breaking the Judicial Glass Ceiling: The Appointment of Women to High Courts Worldwide, Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie J. Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang, and Miki Caul Kittilson
Political Uncertainty Moderates Neural Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions, Ingrid J. Haas, Melissa N. Baker, and Frank J. Gonzalez
Agricultural and food security impacts from the 2010 Russia flash drought, Eric D. Hunt, Francesco Femia, Caitlin Werrell, Jordan Christian, Jason A. Otkin, Jeff Basara, Martha Anderson, Tyler R. White, Christopher Hain, Robb Randall, and Katie McGaughey
Litigating Socio-economic and Women’s Rights in Benin’s Constitutional Court, Alice J. Kang and Susanna D. Wing
2020
Googly Eyes and Yard signs: Deconstructing One Professor’s Successful Rebuffing of a Right-wing Attack on an Academic Institution, Theresa Catalano and Ari Kohen
Ideological Asymmetries in Social Psychological Research: Rethinking the Impact of Political Context on Ideological Epistemology, Ingrid J. Haas
Territorial Threat and Women’s Legislative Representation, Alice J. Kang and Nam Kyu Kim
Diverse and Inclusive High Courts: A Global and Intersectional Perspective, Alice J. Kang, Miki Caul Kittilson, Valerie Hoekstra, and Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon
Revisiting Economic Shocks and Coups, Nam Kyu Kim
Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age?, Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin Smith, and John Hibbing
Ethical Concerns of Heroism Training, Brian R. Riches, Matt Langdon, and Ari Kohen
Motivated viewing: Selective exposure to political images when reasoning is not involved, Clarisse Warren, Stephen Schneider, Kevin Smith, and John Hibbing
Ideology and Predictive Processing: Coordination, Bias, and Polarization in Socially Constrained Error Minimization, Nathan E. Wheeler, Suraiya Allidina, Elizabeth U. Long, Stephen P. Schneider, Ingrid J. Haas, and William A. Cunningham
2019
Social Identity and the Use of Ideological Categorization in Political Evaluation, Ingrid J. Haas, Christopher R. Jones, and Russell H. Fazio
Prioritized Interests: Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Congressional Committee Agenda Setting, John R. Hibbing
Prioritized Interests: Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Congressional Committee Agenda Setting, John R. Hibbing
Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age?, Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin Smith, and John Hibbing
Friends, relatives, sanity, and health: The costs of politics, Kevin Smith, Matthew V. Hibbing, and John R. Hibbing
2018
The Judicialization of Peace, Courtney Hillebrecht, Alexandra Huneeus, and Sandra Borda
Coalitions Matter: Citizenship, Women, and Quota Adoption in Africa, Alice J. Kang and Aili Mari Tripp
Global South Scholars Are Missing from European and US Journals: What Can Be Done about It, Peace A. Medie and Alice J. Kang
Genetic Attributions: Sign of Intolerance or Acceptance?, Stephen P. Schneider, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing
2017
Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions in Insula and Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Ingrid J. Haas, Melissa N. Baker, and Frank J. Gonzalez
Mass Political Behavior, Ingrid J. Haas and Stephen P. Schneider
The Making of a Hero: Cultivating Empathy, Altruism, and Heroic Imagination, Ari Kohen, Matt Langdon, and Brian R. Riches
Women, Rights and Power: Review of Alice Kang, Bargaining for Women’s Lives: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy., Jill Vickers
2016
Review of Alice Kang, Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy, Jaimie Bleck
Just the Facts? Media Coverage of Female and Male High Court Appointees in Five Democracies, Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang, and Miki Caul Kittilson
Heroism Research: A Review of Theories, Methods, Challenges, and Trends, Zeno E. Franco, Scott T. Allison, Elaine L. Kinsella, Ari Kohen, Matt Langdon, and Philip G. Zimbardo
Political Neuroscience, Ingrid J. Haas
Political Psychology (Annotated Bibliography), Ingrid J. Haas
POLS: 450: Research in Biology, Psychology, and Politics—A Peer Review of Teaching Project Benchmark Portfolio, Ingrid J. Haas
The Impact of Uncertainty, Threat, and Political Identity on Support for Political Compromise, Ingrid J. Haas
Anti-regime Uprisings and the Emergence of Electoral Authoritarianism, Nam Kyu Kim
Are Military Regimes Really Belligerent?, Nam Kyu Kim
Revolutionary Leaders and Mass Killing, Nam Kyu Kim
Physiology and political beliefs: A response to Knoll, O’Daniel, and Cusato, Johnathan C. Peterson, Kevin Smith, and John Hibbing
Representation and Governance in International Organizations, David P. Rapkin, Jonathan R. Strand, and Michael W. Trevathan
Perceived Threat Associated with Police Officers and Black Men Predicts Support for Policing Policy Reform, Allison L. Skinner and Ingrid J. Haas
Review of Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy by Alice J. Kang, Susanna D. Wing
2015
Her Ladyship Chief Justice: The Rise of Female Leaders in the Judiciary in Africa, Josephine Dawuni and Alice J. Kang
Reflective liberals and intuitive conservatives: A look at the Cognitive Reflection Test and ideology, Kristen D. Deppe, Frank J. Gonzalez, Jayme Neiman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jackson Pahlke, Kevin Smith, and John R. Hibbing
The Genetic and Environmental Foundations of Political, Psychological, Social, and Economic Behaviors: A Panel Study of Twins and Families, Peter K. Hatemi, Kevin Smith, John R. Alford, Nicholas G. Martin, and John R. Hibbing
Determinants of Rural Latino Trust in the Federal Government, Nathan Munier, Julia Albarracin, and Keith Boeckelman
Voting at Home Is Associated with Lower Cortisol than Voting at the Polls, Jayme Neiman, Karl Evan Giuseffi, Kevin B. Smith, Jeffrey French, Israel Waismel-Manor, and John R. Hibbing
Love Thy Neighbor? Trust in Foreigners and Support for Transnational Policies, Sergio Wals, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Frank J. Gonzalez, and Tess Gosda
2014
Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology, Woo-Young Ahn, Kenneth T. Kishida, Xiaosi Gu, Terry Lohrenz, Ann Harvey, John R. Alford, Kevin B. Smith, Gideon Yaffe, John R. Hibbing, Peter Dayan, and P. Read Montague
The Uncertainty Paradox: Perceived Threat Moderates the Impact of Uncertainty on Political Tolerance, Ingrid J. Haas and William A. Cunningham
Selective versus comprehensive emergency management in Korea, Kyoo-Man Ha and Hyeon-Mun Oh
Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology, John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford
How Civil Society Represents Women: Feminists, Catholics, and Mobilization Strategies in Africa, Alice J. Kang
Tumbling Political Theory, Ari Kohen
2013
Candidate Genes and Voter Turnout: Further Evidence on the Role of 5-HTTLPR, Kristen Diane Deppe, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing
Ten Misconceptions Concerning Neurobiology and Politics, John R. Hibbing
The Effect of Gender Quota Laws on the Election of Women: Lessons from Niger, Alice J. Kang
Testing Two Explanations of the Liberal Peace: The Opportunity Cost and Signaling Arguments, Nam Kyu Kim
2012
Book Review: William J. Talbott, Human Rights and Human Well-Being, Ari Kohen
How indeterminism shapes ecologists’ contributions to managing socio-ecological systems, Sarah Michaels and Andrew Tyre
The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non- Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions, Jay J. Van Bavel, Dominic J. Packer, Ingrid J. Haas, and William A. Cunningham
2011
The Politics of Mate Choice, John A. Alford, Peter K. Hatemi, John Hibbing, Nicholas G. Martin, and Lindon J. Eaves
The Politics of Mate Choice, John R. Alford, Peter K. Hatemi, John Hibbing, Nicholas G. Martin, and Lindon J. Eaves
Assumed Transmission in Political Science: A Call for Bringing Description Back In, Scott L. Althaus, Nathaniel Swigger, Svitlana Chernykh, David J. Hendry, Sergio C. Wals, and Christopher Tiwald
Attitudes, William A. Cunningham, Ingrid J. Haas, and Andrew Jahn
Orbitofrontal cortex provides cross-modal valuation of self-generated stimuli, William A. Cunningham, Ingrid J. Haas, and Ashley S. Waggoner
Plato's Heroic Vision: The Difficult Choices of the Socratic Life, Ari Kohen
Personal and Political Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Ari Kohen, Michael Zanchelli, and Levi Drake
Disgust Sensitivity and the Neurophysiology of Left-Right Political Orientations, Kevin B. Smith, Douglas R. Oxley, Matthew V. Hibbing, John R. Alford, and John R. Hibbing
2010
When Governments Break The Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration., David P. Forsythe
2009
Review of American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else by Kelly Bulkeley, John R. Hibbing
Studying Oil, Islam, and Women as if Political Institutions Mattered, Alice J. Kang
The Personal and the Political: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Restorative Justice, Ari Kohen
American Revolution, Ari Kohen and Sara W. Lunsford
2008
Beyond Liberals and Conservatives to Political Genotypes and Phenotypes, John R. Alford, Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbing
Twin Studies, Molecular Genetics, Politics, and Tolerance: A Response to Beckwith and Morris, John R. Alford, Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbing
The New Empirical Biopolitics, John R. Alford and John R. Hibbing
Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity, William A. Cunningham, Jay J. Van Bavel, and Ingrid Johnsen Haas
The American Public's View of Congress, John R. Hibbing and Christopher W. Larimer
A Case of Moral Heroism: Sympathy, Personal Identification, and Mortality in Rwanda, Ari Kohen
The Politics of AIDS in the Black Community, Byron D. Orey
Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits, Douglas R. Oxley, Kevin Smith, John R. Alford, Matthew V. Hibbing, Jennifer L. Miller, Mario J. Scalora, Peter K. Hatemi, and John R. Hibbing
The Global Impact of Quotas: On the Fast Track to Increased Female Legislative Representation, Aili Mari Tripp and Alice J. Kang