Ingrid Haas

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Ingrid Haas

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair Political Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
531 OLDH
Lincoln NE 68588-0328
Phone
402-472-2343 On-campus 2-2343
Email
ihaas2@unl.edu

Dr. Ingrid Haas is Resident Faculty in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology. She is currently a Faculty Fellow with the  National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI). 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 expertise is in attitudes, social cognition, emotion, prejudice, social identity, experimental and survey design, quantitative research methods and statistics, and structural and functional MRI (fMRI). Dr. Haas directs the Political Attitudes and Cognition (PAC) Lab. She teaches courses on political psychology, American politics, and quantitative research methods. She also serves on the Editorial Board for Politics and the Life Sciences and Frontiers in Social Psychology.

Education

  • Ph.D. and M.A. in social psychology from The Ohio State University
  • B.A. in psychology and political science from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota

Current and Upcoming Courses

  • Fall 2023: POLS 950

  • Spring 2024: POLS 250

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:

Graduate:

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]

  • 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]

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