Ingrid Haas

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Graduate Chair & Associate Professor Political Science
Ingrid Haas

Dr. Ingrid Haas is Graduate Program Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science. She is Resident Faculty in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Haas is interested in understanding the expression of political attitudes and beliefs, and how that expression is influenced by contextual factors such as emotion and identity. She conducts interdisciplinary research on political behavior using theory and methods from political psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Her specific areas of expertise include attitudes, social cognition, emotion, prejudice, social identity, experimental design, survey design, and functional MRI (fMRI). Dr. Haas directs the Political Attitudes and Cognition (PAC) Lab and serves as Faculty Coordinator of the Political Science Experimental Participant Pool (PSEPP). She teaches courses on political psychology, American politics, and quantitative research methods. She also serves as Associate Editor for the journal Research & Politics and is on the Editorial Board for Politics and the Life Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in social psychology from The Ohio State University and B.A. in psychology and political science from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

Education

Ph.D. in Social Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
M.A. in Social Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.A. in Psychology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Research Interests

  • Political Behavior
  • Political Psychology
  • Political Neuroscience

Student Office Hours | Spring Semester 2022

Office hours are virtual (Zoom/phone) and by appointment only--make an appointment here or email to schedule. 

Current and Upcoming Courses

Spring 2022: POLS 450 and POLS 850

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:

Graduate:

Recent Publications

Haas, I. J., Baker, M., & Gonzalez, F. (2021). Political uncertainty moderates neural evaluation of incongruent policy positions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376: 20200138. [doi] [preprint]

Haas, I. J. (2020). Ideological asymmetries in social psychological research: Rethinking the impact of political context on ideological epistemology. Psychological Inquiry, 31(1), 29-34. [doi] [preprint]

Haas, I. J., Warren, C., & Lauf, S. L. (2020). Political neuroscience: Understanding how the brain makes political decisions. In D. Redlawsk (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making. New York: Oxford University Press. [doi] [preprint]

Wheeler, N. E., Allidina, S., Long, E. U., Schneider, S., Haas, I. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2020). Ideology and predictive processing: Coordination, bias, and polarization in socially constrained error minimization. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 192-198. [doi] [pdf]

Haas, I. J., Jones, C. R., & Fazio, R. H. (2019). Social identity and the use of ideological categorization in political evaluation. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 335-353. [doi] [pdf]

Neta, M., & Haas, I. J. (Eds.). (2019). Emotion in the Mind and Body (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Vol. 66). New York, NY: Springer. [doi]

Neta, M., & Haas, I. J. (2019). Movere: Characterizing the role of emotion and motivation in shaping human behavior. In M. Neta & I. J. Haas (Eds.), Emotion in the Mind and Body (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Vol. 66, pp. 1-9). New York, NY: Springer. [doi]

Haas, I. J. (2018; 2016). Political psychology. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. [doi] [pdf]

Full list of publications available here.

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