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