At the Forefront of Political Psychology

Eugene Borgida is a professor of psychology and law at the University of Minnesota. He is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology. In addition, Borgida is an adjunct professor of political science and has served as co-director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology, which he co-founded, and co-editor of the journal Political Psychology. He is a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science (APS), a fellow in several divisions of the American Psychological Association, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on the board of directors for the APS, the Social Science Research Council, and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Borgida's research interests include social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, and political psychology.Christopher M. Federico is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His interests focus on mass belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes and behavior. He is also currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. He is a co-author of Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution (with Christopher D. Johnston and Howard G. Lavine), winner of the 2018 David O. Sears Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics.Joanne M. Miller is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations and of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts and has won awards from the following American Political Science Association sections: Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior; Political Communication; and Political Organizations and Parties. Her interests focus on political psychology, with particular emphases on the processes by which citizens form political attitudes and become politically engaged and on the psychological antecedents of belief in conspiracy theories.