Political Psychology Workshop
Questions? Please contact Professor, and workshop coordinator, Thomas Nelson, nelson.179@polisci.osu.edu
Autumn 2024 Schedule
The Political Psychology Workshop will meet on Mondays from 12-1 in Derby 2174 with a virtual option for those who can't attend in person.
Oct 10, 2024
Oct 21, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 18, 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.
Dec 2, 2024
Spring 2024 Schedule
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.”