The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

Leonie Huddy is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. She served as co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2005 till 2010, is past-president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), serves on the American National Election Studies Board, appears regularly on CSB Radio as an exit poll analyst, and serves on numerous editorial boards in political science. Huddy has written extensively on social and political identities, emotions, reactions to terrorism, gender and politics, and race relations. She is the co-author of Going to War in Iraq: When Citizens and the Press Matter (2015, with Stanley Feldman and George Marcus). David O. Sears is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science, former Dean of Social Sciences, and former Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, all at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sears received his B.A. in History from Stanford University, his Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from Yale University in 1962, and since then has taught at UCLA. He has held visiting faculty positions at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and twice at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. His books include Public Opinion (1964, with Robert E. Lane), The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot (1973, with John B. McConahay), Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (1982, with Jack Citrin), Social Psychology (12 editions from 1970 to 2006, with Shelley E. Taylor and L. Anne Peplau), Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (2010, with Michael Tesler), and American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2014, with Jack Citrin). Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses on the causes of interstate war, foreign policy decision-making, and political psychology. Levy is past president of the International Studies Association (ISA) (2007-08) and of the Peace Science Society (2005-06). He received the Helen Dwight Reid (now Merze Tate) Award for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975-76 from the American Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Foreign Policy Analysis Section (2000), and the Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from ISA's International Security Studies Section (2022). Levy is co-author of Causes of War (2010, with W. R. Thompson) and of The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011). Jennifer Jerit is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. She has taught Experimental Methods at the Summer Methods School at the National University of Singapore and at the University of Vienna. Jerit is a co-editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science and serves on the American National Election Studies Board and numerous editorial boards in political science. She has written on political knowledge, misinformation, political communication, survey methodology, and experimental design.