Current PhD Students
William Brown
Will's research interests fall under political psychology and American politics. He is especially interested in political norms, persuasion, opinion change, and anti-democratic attitudes and behavior.
Claire Christensen
Claire's research interests fall mostly within American politics including electoral politics, partisan polarization, policy outcomes. In particular she focuses on understanding the effects of extremism and conspiratorial politics.
Ingram Dressler
Ingram's research interests include political psychology and American politics. He is especially interested in the role of online content creators and communities in influencing the political ideology of their followers.
Ago Echeverri
Ago’s research interests are in political psychology, race and ethnicity and social identity, with a focus on nationalism, polarization, discrimination, and minority coalitions.
Diego Hernandez
Diego’s research interests fall within political psychology. He is particularly interested in the political behaviors of groups, support for right-wing populism globally, and applying political psychological perspectives to the study of conspiratorial belief.
Miguel Higuera
Miguel’s research falls under the fields of Political Psychology and American Politics. Specifically, he is interested in the motivations for political participation, apathy, and conflict, as well as the influence of online interactions on political behavior and psychology.
Sri Jangili
Srivardhan's research interests include political psychology and political communication. In particular, he is interested in how people process political information and how people respond to politics online.
Olivia Grace Jessee
Olivia’s research interests are in Political Psychology & American Politics. She’s especially drawn to rural politics.
Olga Khvostunova
Olga's research interests are broadly in the fields of political psychology, comparative politics, and political communication.
Josh McDonnell
Josh's research interests include social media use and its effect on offline political action, particularly political violence. Specifically, he focuses on how group dynamics and responses to online rhetoric influence mobilization.
Tom McDonough
Tom's research interests include behavioral political economy and political psychology. His work focuses on how people evaluate the future and cooperate in groups based on their perceptions of event probabilities and their realized outcomes.
Morgan Pettit
Morgan's research interests fall primarily within the fields of Political Psychology and American Politics. Specifically, her interests are centered on issues of ideology, democratic institutions, and authoritarianism.
Ben Rudolph
Ben is interested in studying how people develop conviction in their political beliefs and attitudes. To explore this question, his research examines social influence, moral psychology, and political ideology, among other topics
Elif Senturk
Elif’s research interests lie in political psychology, focusing on intergroup dynamics, nationalism, authoritarianism, and anti-democratic attitudes, and how moral and psychological processes shape perceptions of justice and authority across American and comparative contexts.
Vitória Sgorlon
Vitória studies political psychology, focusing on group identity, public opinion, and (un)democratic attitudes. Her dissertation examines left-right ideology as a social identity in Latin America. Other research interests include the populist far-right in the Americas, (mis)perceptions, corruption and accountability, and religion and politics.
Xiaomeng Song
Xiaomeng’s research interests lie in climate change, environmental economics, and environmental policy analysis. Her primary methodological approach is quantitative analysis, with a particular emphasis on causal inference.
Ignacio Urbina
Ignacio's research interests are in comparative political behavior, behavioral political economy, and methods. He focuses on the politics of AI, exploring citizens' attitudes about AI and the impact of human-computer interactions on cooperation and political beliefs. He also studies democratic attitudes in Latin America and the effects of state violence on politics.
Abby Woodfield
Abby's research interests relate to the intersection of democracy and identity in a comparative context. Using political psychology methods, she is focused on answering questions about rhetoric, separatist conflict, electoral institutions, and party sorting.
Seden Yilmazturk
Seden's research interests fall under political psychology and american politics.