Political Psychology Section Award Recipients
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Best Dissertation Award
Robert E. Lane Award
Best Paper Award
Distinguished Junior Scholar Award
Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.
| 2023 | Elizabeth Herman, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Amanda d’Urso, Northwestern University “In the Shadow of Whiteness: Middle Eastern and North African Identity in the United States” |
| 2022 | Angie Ocampo, University of Pittsburgh “Becoming American: The Social and Political Incorporations of Latinos” |
| 2021 | Matt Nelsen, University of Chicago “Educating for Empowerment: Race, Socialization, and Reimagining Civic Education.” Northwestern University. |
| 2020 | Hakeem Jefferson “Policing Norms: Punishment and the Politics of Respectability Among Black Americans” |
| 2020 | Eunji Kim “Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility” |
| 2019 | Pavielle Haines, University of Denver |
| 2018 | Adam Thai, Princeton University “The Origin of Affluent Class Interests and Their Consequences for Inequality.” |
| 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” |
The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.
| 2023 | Efrén Pérez, University of California, Los Angeles Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. Princeton Press, 2022. |
| 2023 | Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. Princeton Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Cigdem V. Sirin, University of Texas at El Paso Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas, El Paso Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| 2021 | Nichole M. Bauer, Louisiana State University The Qualifications Gap: Why Women Must Be Better than Men to Win Political Office. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2020 | Ashley Jardina, Duke University |
| 2020 | Markus Prior, Princeton University |
| 2019 | Gwyneth McClendon, New York University |
| 2018 | Ryan J. Vander Wielen, Temple University Taming Intuition: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| 2018 | Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University Taming Intuition: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| 2017 | Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Samara Klar, University of Arizona Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens. Yale University Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Bethany Albertson, University of Texas at Austin Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2016 | Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. Cambridge University Press, 2015 |
| 2016 | Stuart J. Kaufman, University of Delaware Nationalist Passions. Cornell University Press, 2015 |
| 2015 | Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Charles Taber, SUNY, Stony Brook University The Rationalizing Voter |
| 2014 | Milton Lodge Dr., SUNY, Stony Brook University The Rationalizing Voter |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Eric Groenendyk, University of Memphis Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind: How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Partisan Identity and Democracy |
| 2013 | Howard Lavine, University of Minnesota The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press) |
| 2013 | Christopher Johnston, Duke University The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press 2012) |
| 2013 | Marco Steenbergen, University of Zurich The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press 2012) |
| 2012 | Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University Americanism in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | James Druckman, Northwestern University Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Donald Green, Columbia University Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | James Kuklinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science |
| 2012 | Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky Justice in America |
| 2011 | Jon Hurwitz, University of Pittsburgh Justice in America |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Who Counts As An American: The Boundaries of Natural Identity |
| 2010 | Robert Shiller, Yale University Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism |
| 2010 | George Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism |
| 2009 | Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) |
| 2009 | Todd Shields, University of Arkansas The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Predidential Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) |