Dr. Ingrid Haas is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Political Science. She is Resident Faculty in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3), Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Psychology, and a Faculty Fellow with the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI). Dr. Haas directs the Political Attitudes and Cognition (PAC) Lab. She is interested in understanding political decision making and the expression of political attitudes and beliefs, and how decision making and attitude expression are 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 in the context of American politics and international security. Her specific areas of expertise include attitudes, social cognition, emotion, prejudice, social identity, experimental and survey design, quantitative research methods and statistics, and structural and functional MRI (sMRI/fMRI). Her research is currently funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Education
Ph.D., Social Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2012)
M.A., Social Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2008)
B.A., Psychology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota (2005)
Research Interests
Political Psychology
Political Neuroscience
Fall 2024 Office Hours
tbd
Current and Upcoming Courses
Fall 2024: POLS 350
Spring 2025: POLS 250
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- POLS 100: Power and Politics in America
- POLS 150: Introduction to Psychology, Biology, and Politics
- POLS 250: Genetics, Brains, and Politics
- POLS 350: Issues in Psychology, Biology, and Politics (updated syllabus coming soon!)
- POLS 450: Conducting Research in Political Psychology
Graduate:
- POLS 850: Core Seminar in Psychology, Biology, and Politics
- POLS 950: Research Seminar in Psychology, Biology, and Politics
Recent Publications
Basyouni, R., Harp, N., Haas, I. J., & Neta, M. (2022). Political identity biases Americans’ judgments of outgroup emotion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 103, 104392. [doi] [preprint]
Haas, I. J. (2022). Using political psychology to understand populism, intellectual virtues, and democratic backsliding. In G. R. Peterson, M. C. Berhow, & G. Tsakiridis (Eds.), Engaging Populism: Democracy and the Intellectual Virtues (pp. 27-42). Palgrave. [doi] [preprint]
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]
Full list of publications available here.
In the News
- "UNL Professors win $428,000 grant to study how Congress makes nuclear weapons policy" -Omaha World Herald
- "Today's partisan divide is rooted in biology as much as politics" -WKSU, Ideastream Public Media
- "Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences." - Scientific American
- "Trump understands what many miss: people don’t make decisions based on facts" - Vox
Links
Download Curriculum Vitae [pdf]