The University of Virginia is a superb place to study political psychology. With active faculty in the politics, psychology, and media studies departments, with a variety of centers devoted to the study of politics, and with our proximity to Washington DC, UVA now has a thriving community of scholars studying the links among political minds, political events, and political institutions.
Our particular areas of strength include implicit political cognition, race and gender, morality and ideology, citizen competence, and democratic theory.
This webpage is designed to serve as a resource for all faculty and students at UVA who are interested in political psychology.
Our plans and goals for the next two years:
- Hold a high-profile day-long symposium on the political psychology of the election, in Fall 2012.
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Hold a joint brownbag lunch each semester between the social psychology area and the politics department, for formal research presentations.
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Hold one or two smaller working lunches each semester at which members can get feedback on a paper in progress, or can ask the group for quick consultations on various questions.
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Notify all members of relevant speakers and events that occur anyhwere on grounds. To subscribe to our email list for such notifications, please send an email to:
polpsych-request@virginia.edu with the subject: "subscribe"
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Encourage graduate students in each department to take relevant courses in the other departments. Cross-list more courses. (Grad courses are listed here)
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Team teach a course on political psychology. (Planned for Fall 2012, to be taught by Nick Winter & Jon Haidt)
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Share data and data collection methods, especially online data collection.
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Apply for funds to hold a conference or a speaker series.
Directors (for now): Nick Winter & Jon Haidt
