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 an 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
  • M.A., Social Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  • B.A., Psychology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Research Interests

Political Psychology
Political Neuroscience

Spring 2025 Office Hours

Current students can book through https://calendly.com/ingridjhaas, otherwise please email for availability.

Current and Upcoming Courses

Spring 2025: POLS 250 [syllabus]

Fall 2025: POLS 350

Spring 2026: POLS 950

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: Emotion and Politics (Issues in Psychology, Biology, and Politics)
  • POLS 450: Conducting Research in Political Psychology

Graduate:

  • POLS 850: Core Seminar in Psychology, Biology, and Politics
  • POLS 950: Psychology of Political Attitudes (Research Seminar in Psychology, Biology, and Politics)

Recent Publications

Gonzalez, F. J., & Haas, I. J. (2024). The neural mechanisms of race priming in American politics. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 1-16. [doi] [preprint]

Pretus, C., Swencionis, J. K., Pei, Y., Marcos-Vidal, L., Haas, I. J., Cunningham, W. A., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Shifting evaluative construal: Common and distinct neural components of moral, pragmatic, and hedonic evaluations. Emotion. [doi] [preprint]

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]

Full list of publications available here.

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