Academic Year 2020-2021
| August 24: Introductions and Logistics |
| September 7: Łukasz Niparko, "Civil Society Response to the Erosion of Democracy: A Case Study of Poland". Discussant: Ursula Kreitmair |
| September 21: Pierce Ekstrom, "The Selective Communication of Political Information: Future Directions in a Research Agenda". Discussant: Geoff Lorenz |
| October 5: Geoff Lorenz, "Drawing Better Lawmakers: Redistricting Institutions and Legislative Effectiveness". Discussant: Dona-Gene Barton. |
| October 19: Clarisse Warren, "Not Quite Woke: Implicit Sexism Toward Female Leaders". Discussant: Kyle Hull. |
| November 2: Alison O'Toole, "Life at the Brink of Difference: Immigrant Diversity, National Identity, Values, and Behavior". Discussant: Shannon Konkol. |
| November 16: Kyle Hull, "District 2 Swinging Blue". Discussant: Alex Hall. |
| February 8: Alison O'Toole, "Normative Deviance and Unwilling Hosts: What's it Take for the Left-Leaning to Exclude Immigrants?" Discussant: Geoff Lorenz. |
| February 22: Noelle Troutman, "(Ms.)Calculated Risk: A Theory of Gender Differences in Bargaining." Discussant: Alyssa Sloane |
| March 8: Dean Jackson, "Tweeting with Feeling: or how we came to hate our digital neighbors". Discussant: Łukasz Niparko. |
| March 22: Fathiyyah Maryufani, "National Identity in Digital Indonesia." Discussant: Alison O’Toole |
| March 29: Nichole Bauer (LSU) |
| April 5th: MPSA practice talks |
| April 19th: Łukasz Niparko, "On being and becoming 'upstanders': the 21st-Century Civil Society in the Making." Discussant: Dean Jackson |
| May 3rd: First-year research presentations |
Academic Year 2019-2020
| September 16: Elizabeth Theiss-Morse - Liberal Citizenship and the Challenge of Respect |
| September 23: Alison O'Toole - Diversity of Values, Normative Violations, and...'I Don't Think I Like You' |
| October 7: Kyle Hull - Does my wheelchair slow me down? Attitudes towards Public Servants with Disabilities |
| October 21: No Meeting |
| October 28: Ernest Dupree - White Male and Female Attitudes and Contemporary Public Policy |
| November 11: No Meeting |
| November 25: David Henderson - Biological Aspects of Political Attitudes |
| December 9: Francia Baltazar Parra - Feeling Mexico in Our Own Skin: implications of skin color on public opinion concerning coups d’État and corruption |
| February 3: Łukasz Niparko & Ingrid Haas - PSEPP Overview & Updates |
| February 17: Ernest Dupree - The Impact of Threat on Political Representation and Government Preferences |
| March 2: Dean Jackson & Fathiyyah Maryufani - What You See is (Not) What You Get: A Multimodal Analysis of National Identity in Political Campaign Ads |
| March 9: Kenneth Wald (University of Florida) - The political consequences of trauma: Holocaust exposure and attachment to Israel among American Jews |
| March 16: MEETING CANCELLED |
| March 30 (Zoom): Ruby Basyouni (UNL Psychology) - Perceived Political Threat Predicts Negative Perceptions of Outgroup Facial Expressions |
| April 13 (Zoom): Kyle Hull - NSF DDRIG Proposal |
|
April 27 (Zoom): First Year Talks 1. Francia Baltazar Parra - Face to face: conflicting effects of oxytocin in attitude toward foreigners 2. Joaquin Suarez - Identification or Social Desirability: What comes first? |
Academic Year 2018-2019
|
August 27: Samantha Wiener - Does Fair Chance Hiring Level the Playing Field for Ex-Offenders? |
|
September 10: Derek Jones - Measuring risk preferences towards future costs under labor-dependent income using oTree |
|
September 24: Aleš Kudrnáč (Czech Academy of Sciences) - Effect of overweight, obesity and subjective health on voting turnout |
|
October 8: Tierney Lorenz (UNL Psychology/CB3) - Salivary Bioscience Core Lab |
|
October 22: No Meeting |
|
November 5: Alison O'Toole - Social Capital, Contact Theory, and Volunteering: Social Networking at the Intersection of Difference |
|
November 19: No Meeting |
|
December 3: Geoff Lorenz - Polarized Pluralism Organizational Preferences and Biases in the American Pressure System. |
|
January 28: Kyle Hull - Does my wheelchair slow me down? Attitudes towards disabled political candidates |
|
February 11: Jeffrey Stevens - Towards robust, transparent, and reproducible science |
|
March 1: Dona-Gene Barton, Benjamin R. Kantack, and Sergio Wals - Is there a culture of no reelection in Mexico? |
|
March 11: No Meeting |
|
March 25: MPSA Practice Talks 1. Hannah Read - Rebel Group Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and Foreign State Sponsorship. 2. Stephen Schneider and Clarrise Warren - Genetic Attributions of Gender Stereotypes Vary by Ideology: A Case for Using Genetic Attributions as Motivated Reasoning. 3. Clarrise Warren and Stephen Schneider - Turning a Blind Eye: How Ideology Influences Perceptions of Sexual Harassment. |
|
April 8: Dona-Gene Barton and Sergio Wals - Read My Lips: Citizen Perceptions of Campaign Promises |
|
April 22: First Year Talks 1. Dean Jackson - #Hashtages and Hype-waves: The power of the block button 2. Fathiyyah Maryufani - Buzzing the Buzzers: How political social media campaigns can backfire |
Academic Year 2017-2018
|
August 28: APSA Practice Talks 1. Jeonghyeon Kim - The Politics of Refugees in Canada 2. Sami Lauf, Frank Gonzalez, Kevin Smith & John Hibbing - Searching for Politically Relevant Information |
| September 11: Kyle Hull - Why do governors issue executive orders? |
| September 25: Stephen Schneider - Threat and Conspiracy Endorsement |
| October 9: Courtney Hillebrecht - International Criminal Accountability and Domestic Elections: The Politics of Popularity and Resistance |
| October 23: Scott Bokemper (Yale University) - Experiments on Social Safety Nets for Unemployment |
| November 6: Robert Schub - Formation of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force |
| November 20: Ursula Kreitmair - Social Norms Marketing |
| December 4: Tobin Beck - Medicaid expansion in Nebraska: Can objectivity as a learned norm moderate information framing effects? |
| January 22: Professional Development |
| February 5: Julia Reilly - The specter of justice: Amnesty, courts, and civil war peace negotiations |
| February 19: Andy Jackson - Do I Know You? The Accuracy of Predictions of Discussion Partners’ Candidate Preference in a Presidential Nominating Contest |
| February 23 (Friday): Ernest Dupree - Difference in White and African-American Attitudes Toward Representation and Governance |
| March 5: Trey Andrews (UNL Department of Psychology) - Emotion primes, discrimination, and support for immigration policies |
|
March 26: MPSA Practice Talks 1. Stephen Schneider, John Peterson, & Ingrid Haas - Political Threat, Ideology, and Conspiracy Endorsement Before and After the 2016 Presidential Election 2. Clarisse Warren, Samantha Lauf, Stephen Schneider, Kevin Smith, & John Hibbing - Pressing Politics: Measuring Political Approach and Avoidance Behavior Using a Keypress Task 3. Jeonghyeon Kim - The Politics of Refugees: Comparative Case Studies on Canada and Australia |
| April 9: Peter Allen (University of Bath) - Sex differences in blame assignment for women’s underrepresentation in politics: evidence from 27 countries |
|
April 23: First Year Presentations 1. Daryl Baier - Alternative Perspective Approach in Surveys to Reduce Social Desirability Bias on Socially Sensitive Issues 2. Derek Jones - How Do Individuals in Poverty Make Decisions? A Focus on Anticipated Costs under Labor-Dependent Income 3. Jamie Morrissey - Food Insecurity in the United States 4. Samantha Wiener - Threat and Attitudes Toward Ex-Offenders |
Academic Year 2016-2017
| Aug. 29: APSA Practice Talks 1. Frank Gonzalez & Jack Edelson - I'm (not) with stupid: How extreme candidates can help (or hurt) their parties |
| Sept. 12: John Hibbing - (1) Political Health and (2) Stealth Democracy |
| Sept. 26: Stephen Schneider, John Peterson, & Ingrid Haas - Conspiracy Theories |
| Oct. 10: Julia Reilly - Brokering with Justice: The International Criminal Court and Peace Negotiations in the Ugandan Civil War |
| Oct. 24: Brandon Nutting (UNL College of Journalism & Mass Communication) - Viewing media in slow motion: Mediated arousal, valence, and time perception |
| Nov. 7: Ursula Kreitmair - Voting to Reveal Contributions |
| Nov. 21: Stephen Schneider - Changing Attributions Through Perspective-Taking |
| Dec. 5: John Peterson - The Heritability of Attitudinal Stability |
|
January 9: SPSA Practice Talks 1. Stephen Schneider, John Peterson, & Ingrid Haas - Belief in Ideological Conspiracy Theories: Situational Threat or Ideological Dispositions? |
| January 23: Sarah Michaels - Disasters and Indeterminism |
| February 6: Sergio Wals, Alejandro Moreno and Benjamin R. Kantack - Public Support for Legislative Reelection in an Emerging Democracy |
| February 20: Andy Jackson - Deferring to the Experts: Perceptions of Interest Group Expertise as Source Cues in Down-ballot Statewide Races |
| March 6: Cary Wolbers - Social Networks and Social Science: How Neural Networks and Sentiment Analysis can Innovate the study of Public Opinion |
| March 27: Allison O'Toole - The Effects of the Refugee Experience on Political Trust: Assimilation and Transnationalism |
|
April 10: WPSA Practice Talks 1. Stephen Schneider, Frank Gonzalez, & Sami Lauf - Ideological Asymmetries in Predispositions to Identify with Groups |
|
April 17: First-Year Talks 1. Ernest Dupree - Constituent Attitudes towards State Level Representation 2. Kyle Hull - Why Do Governors Issue Executive Orders? 3. Sami Lauf - Information Search: The Kinds of Information that Voters Use 4. Clarisse Warren - Examining the Affective Tipping Point |
Academic Year 2015-2016
| Aug. 31: APSA Practice Talks |
| Sept. 14: Beth Theiss-Morse, Dona-Gene Barton, Michael Wagner, & Frank Gonzalez - Look who's talking: Political rhetoric, partisanship, and Americans' attitudes about Democratic governance |
| Sept. 28: Allison Skinner & Ingrid Haas - Perceived threat associated with police officers and Black men predicts support for policing policy reform |
| Oct. 9 (Friday, 11:30, CB3 Room B60): Gregg Murray (Texas Tech) - Voting is Hard: Cognitive Capacity and Voter Turnout |
| Oct. 12: Cary Wolbers - Preferential Popularity: Examing Support for Ranked Choice Voting in California |
| Oct. 26: Andy Jackson - The Impact of Social Contexts on the Political Activism of Republican Iowa Caucus Goers |
| Nov. 9: Stephen Schneider - All in the Family: Breaking Family Ties by Discussing Politics |
| January 25: Stephen Schneider, John Hibbing, & Kevin Smith - Attributing Traits and Behaviors to Genetics: Partner to Racism and Eugenics…or Tolerance and Understanding? |
| February 1: meeting cancelled |
| February 15: Dona-Gene Barton, Courtney Hillebrecht, & Sergio Wals - A Neglected Nexus: Human Rights and Public Perceptions |
| February 29: Nam Kyu Kim - Revolutionary Leaders and Mass Killing |
| March 14: Rupal Mehta - Windows of Opportunity: Nuclear Reversal, Leadership Change, and the Conclusion of the Iranian Nuclear Agreement |
| March 28: MPSA Practice Talks (Frank Gonzalez, Stephen Schneider) |
| April 11: Andy Jackson - What Happens When Money Doesn't Matter? The Influence of Interest Group Messages on Down-Ballot Statewide Races |
| April 25: Ben Sievert - Perception is Everything: How Individuals Perceive Their Ideal Selves In a Confusing Political World |
Academic Year 2014-2015
| Sept. 10: Beth Theiss-Morse & Sergio Wals - Con la vara que midas...National identity and attitudes toward immigration and emigration in Mexico |
| Sept. 24: Dona-Gene Mitchell - Enough already! Campaignts and perceptions of political information overload |
| Oct. 8: Karl Giuseffi - Social anxiety and political participation |
| Oct. 22: Frank Gonzalez - Winter survival, group identity, and direct democracy |
| Nov. 5: John Peterson - Do people really get more conservative as they get older? |
| Nov. 19: Ingrid Haas - The impact of uncertainty on support for political compromise during the 2013 U.S. government shutdown |
| Dec. 3: Ben Sievert - Political crystallization and self/ideology |
| Jan. 28: Sergio Wals - The impact of shared ethnicity in political discussion |
| Feb. 11: Stephen Schneider, John Peterson, & Frank Gonzalez - (Don't) bring us your sick: The effects of disease outbreak on support for foreign aid |
| March 11: Nathan Munier - Do independent women participate in demostrations more? Empowerment and politics in predicting activism among Mexican women |
| March 18: Frank Gonzalez - NSF dissertation grant proposal: fMRI study of attitudes toward race-based policies |
| April 8: MSPA practice presentations - Nathan Munier & John Peterson |
| April 29 (12:30pm): Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam) - The psychological roots of populist voting |