Organized Section 28: Best Dissertation Award

Political Psychology Section Award Recipients

Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

2017	Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University. “Perceiving the Unobservable.”
2016	Eun Bin Chung, University of Utah “Overcoming the History Problem: Group-Affirmation in International Relations.”
2015	Timothy J. Ryan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “No Compromise: The Politics of Moral Conviction”
2014	Samara Klar, University of Arizona “The Influence of Identity on Political Preferences”
2013	Gwyneth McClendon, Harvard University “The Politics of Envy and Esteem in Two Democracies”
2013	Honorable Mention Nathan Kalmoe, George Washington University “Mobilizing Aggression in Mass Politics”
2012	Christopher Dawes, New York University An Examination of Potential Causal Mechanisms Linking Genes and Political Behavior (Completed at the University of California, San Diego; advised by James H. Fowler)
2012	Honorable Mention Sarah Harrison, London School of Economics Ideological (Mis)match? Mapping Extreme Right Ideological Discourse and Voter Preferences
2011	Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University “Private Behaviors for the Public Good: Citizens’ Actions and U.S. Energy Conservation,”
2010	Eric Groenendyk, University of Michigan The Motivated Partisan: A Dual Motivations Theory of Partisan Change and Stability
2010	Danielle Shani, Princeton University On the Origins of Political Interest
2009	Dona-Gene Mitchell, University of Nebraska “It’s About Time: The Dynamics of Information Processing in Political Campaigns”
2007	Natalie Stroud, University of Pennsylvania Selective Exposure to Partisan Information
2006	David Nickerson, University of Notre Dame “Measuring Interpersonal Influence”
2006	Darren Schreiber, University of California, San Diego “Evaluating Politics: A Search for the Neural Substrates of Political Thought”
2004	Cindy Kam, University of California–Davis ” Thinking More or Less: Cognitive Effort in the Formation of Public Opinion”