At the Forefront of Political Psychology

Eugene Borgida is a professor of psychology and law at the University of Minnesota. He is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology. In addition, Borgida is an adjunct professor of political science and has served as co-director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology, which he co-founded, and co-editor of the journal Political Psychology. He is a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science (APS), a fellow in several divisions of the American Psychological Association, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on the board of directors for the APS, the Social Science Research Council, and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Borgida’s research interests include social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, psychology and law, and political psychology. Christopher M. Federico is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His interests focus on mass belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes and behavior. He is also currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. He is a co-author of Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution (with Christopher D. Johnston and Howard G. Lavine), winner of the 2018 David O. Sears Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics. Joanne M. Miller is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations and of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts and has won awards from the following American Political Science Association sections: Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior; Political Communication; and Political Organizations and Parties. Her interests focus on political psychology, with particular emphases on the processes by which citizens form political attitudes and become politically engaged and on the psychological antecedents of belief in conspiracy theories.

1. A Tribute to the Legacy of John L. Sullivan Part 1: The Sullivan Legacy in Tolerance Research 2. Unravelling the Complexities of Tolerance 3. Authoritarianism, Threat, and Intolerance 4. Putting Groups Back Into the Study of Political Intolerance 5. The Promise of Adopting an Emotional Approach to Understanding and Reducing Political Intolerance 6. Tolerance and Threat Revisited: The Dynamics of Political Tolerance Under Persistent Terrorism 7. Ethnic and Religious Tolerance in Poland Through the Lens of the Sullivan et al. Framework 8. Terror and Tolerance: The Challenge of Inclusion of Muslims in Western Europe 9. Appreciating Madison’s Democracy: Perceived Homogeneity, Tolerance, and Support for Democratic Processes Part 2: The Sullivan Legacy in Belief-Systems Research 10. Ideology in American Public Opinion, 1980-2004: The Changing Role of Individual Differences 11. Basic Human Values and Political Judgment: A Broader Approach 12. A Closer Look at the Ideological Structuring of Political Attitudes Part 3: Sullivan as Mentor 13. The Sullivan Effect 14. Shaping the Future of Political Psychology, One Person at a Time 15. John L. Sullivan: Master Mentor 16. John Sullivan’s Pillars of Wisdom and How They Influenced a Young Scholar 17. John Sullivan: Mentoring by Example Part 4: Coda 18. Reflections on a Life in Political Psychology