Political Psychology Workshop

Political Psychology Workshop

Political Psychology Workshop 

Political Psychology Workshop Director
Professor Thomas Nelson
nelson.179@polisci.osu.edu 


Autumn 2026 Schedule

Mondays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
LocationDatePresenterTopic
Derby 2174Sept 21, 2026  
Derby 2174Sept 28, 2026  
Derby 2174Oct 5, 2026  
Derby 2174Oct 12, 2026  
Derby 2174Oct 19, 2026  
Derby 2174Oct 26, 2026  
Derby 2174Nov 2, 2026  
Derby 2174Nov 9, 2026  
Derby 2174Nov 16, 2026  
Derby 2174Nov 23, 2026  
Derby 2174Nov 30, 2026Dr. Thomas WoodNew Data on the American Ethos
Derby 2174Dec 7, 2026  

 

Archives

Spring 2026

Apr 20, 2026, Amanda Robinson, "Are Black Immigrants Really Viewed as an “Elevated Minority”? An Examination of White Americans’ Stereotypes"

Mar 30, 2026, Tom Nelson, "Do Blacks and Whites Think Culture Explains Racial Inequality?"

Mar 23, 2026, Rick Herrmann, "Feeling and Thinking: When Affective Motivation Shapes Political Belief and What to Do About It"

Mar 2, 2026, Kristen Adams, "Redistricting Relationships: Insight into Federal-State Legislative Interactions"

Feb 23, 2026, Arvind Krishnamurthy, "Does Descriptive Representation Extend to People of Color?"

Autumn 2025

Oct 20, 2025, Tom Wood

Dec 1, 2025, Maria Silfa, "Do Incumbents Still Enjoy A Financial Advantage? How Individuals Ceased to Advantage Incumbents While Corporate America Continues to Favor Them"

Spring 2025

Jan 27, 2025, Edward Hohe

Feb 3, 2025, Arvind Krishnamurthy, "Police as Political Agents."

Feb 24, 2025, Charlene Stainfield, "Biological Racism Vs Racial Stereotypes: Evaluating the Ascent of Man (AoM) Scale."

Mar 3, 2025, Ryan Kennedy

Mar 17, 2025, Haoming Xiong, "International Norm Violations."

Mar 31, 2025, Katie Gouge, "Correcting Criminal Justice Misperceptions."

Apr 14, 2025, Alecia Nepaul, "Visibility and the Contagion of Distrust Towards Individual Government Institutions."

Apr 28, 2025, Tom Nelson

Autumn 2024

Nov 25, 2024, Alecia Nepaul, "The Stability and Consistency of Core Political Attitudes: a Dynamic Discrete Choice Approach." 

Abstract: This paper studies the stability and consistency of core political attitudes related to how people view their role in politics and their evaluations of the wider political world, using novel discrete choice panel methods, focusing on the following five key attitudes, as surveyed in the British Election Study Internet Panel: the sense of civic duty to vote, trust in Members of Parliament, internal and external political efficacy, and satisfaction with how democracy is working in the UK. Attitudes are stable, with idiosyncratic shocks at the individual level petering out within a handful of months. Most of the variance in the data is attributable to slow-moving individual observable characteristics, such as demographics and party affiliation, and to time fixed effects, capturing broader circumstances and political developments. Permanent, individual type heterogeneity is found to play only a modest role. The methodology developed here can be readily deployed to study questions related to the stability of other measures involving ordinal scales, including cross-measure spillovers and multi-dimensional type heterogeneity.

Spring 2024

April 15, 2024, Tom Wood, “Encouraging Climate Science Exposure Changes Beliefs and Policy Attitudes But Not Behavior.” 

Apr 22, 2024, Rick Herrmann, “Do Identity Attachments Motivate Reasoning?” 

Apr 26, 2024, Christy Oh and Chris Gelpi, “Democracy Hacked? Public Opinion and Foreign Cyber Influence Operations During Elections.”