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2019 APSA Political Psychology section
​Pre-Conference

The fifth annual APSA Political Psychology pre-conference, held on Wednesday, August 28 at Georgetown University.

 


​Organizers: Dan Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania), Cara Wong (University of Illinois), and Joanne Miller (University of Delaware)
Host: Jonathan Ladd (Georgetown University)
Sponsors: APSA’s Political Psychology Section and Georgetown University.



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​Location


Main Conference Sessions: The main program will take place in Lohrfink Auditorium in the Hariri Building on the main campus of Georgetown University. The Hariri Building is home to Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Here are directions to the Lohrfink Auditorium.
Poster Sessions: The poster sessions will be in the lobby right outside Lohrfink Auditorium.
Lunch: Lunch for conference attendees is at the buffet at the Georgetown Faculty Club Restaurant. We have tables with white tablecloths outside the front door to the Faculty Club that are reserved for us to sit at. Please show your name tag at to the host(ess) at the front door of the Faculty Club, get lunch at the buffet, and then walk outside to our reserved tables. The Faculty Club Restaurant is inside the Leavey Center, right across from the door connecting the Leavey Center with the Hariri Building, which is next to it. See this map. There will be signs and directions given orally in the morning on the day of the conference.
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​Conference Program


Pdf file of full conference program, including the poster presentations​

In Lohrfink Auditorium unless otherwise noted

8:30-8:55am
8:55-9:00am

​9:00-9:50am

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9:50-10:40am



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10:40-10:55am

​10:55-11:45am
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11:45am-12:35pm

​12:30-1:15pm

​1:15-3:00pm
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3:00-3:15pm

​3:15-4:05pm 



​4:05-4:10pm  
4:10-5:00pm
5:00-6:00pm
Coffee and pastries in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium (food and drink is not allowed in Auditorium)
Introductory remarks and welcome

Lauren Young (UC-Davis, Political Science)

​"Dissent Decisions in Zimbabwe: The Effect of Emotions and Individual Differences in Reactions to Repression"

Ismail White (Duke University, Political Science)
"Race and Judgement in Choice of Representatives" (coauthored with Corrine M. McConnaughy (George Washington Univ.) and Tina Tucker (Duke Univ.))
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Break: Coffee/tea in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium

Brian Nosek (University of Virginia, Psychology)

"Improving Transparency and Reproducibility of Research"

First Poster Session, 
in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium

​Lunch at the Faculty Club in the Leavey Center
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​Roundtable: "Political Psychology and Contemporary Campaigns" 
Claudia Dean (Pew Research Center), Alex Lundry (Deep Root Analytics), LaFluer Stephens-Dougan (Princeton, Political Science), Aaron Strauss (Analyst Institute), and Lynn Vavreck (UCLA, Political Science)


Break: Coffee/tea in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium
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Betsey Levy Paluck (Princeton, Psychology)
"Testing Theories of Voice and Participatory Democracy in China" (coauthored with and Sherry Wu (UCLA Anderson School of Business))
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​Closing remarks
Second Poster Session, 
in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium
​Reception, in the lobby outside Lohrfink Auditorium
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Posters
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Michael Masterson
Humiliation and International Conflict ​
Lucas de Abreu Maia
Liberal or Democrat? Conservative or Republican? Measuring the relative importance of political identities
Brett J. Gall
Need, Deservingness, and the Politics of Health Care
Anastasia Batkhina
Authoritarianism in Modern Russia
Michelle Io-Low
Three Comma Club: A Content Analysis on the Media's Portrayal of the Rich
Andrew Engelhardt
The (Un)Changing Nature of Whites’ Racial Attitudes
Carey Stapleton
Impact of Angry Campaign Rhetoric on Information Seeking
Carlos A. Rivera
A Terrifying Journey to the Centre of Politics: Political Centrism as an Effect of Mortality Salience and a Need for Closure
Jung Chen
Uncovering the Physiological Basis of Sinophobic Attitudes in Taiwan
Irina Soboleva
No Politics, Please! When Democracy Promotion Suppresses Political Engagement
Andrew Thompson
Clear and Present Danger? The Effect of Group Threat on Political Opinions
Andrew Podob
Anxiety Among Marginalized Groups Most Prone to Anxiousness and What it Means for Politics
Seyoung Jung
Ambiguity and Political Tolerance


Chagai M. Weiss
Can Contact Cure Prejudice? A Natural Experiment in Israeli Medical Clinics
Rotem Dvir
All Options Are on the Table? How Time Horizons Shape Policy Selection in Conflict
Paul Friesen
IAT in African Political Behavior: New Frontiers in Partisanship and Party Branding
Kirill Zhirkov
Implicit and Explicit Racialized Schemas of Immigrant Groups: Evidence from the U.S. and Britain
Leah Christiani
When are explicit racial appeals accepted? Examining the role of anxiety and perceived status threat
Rebeca J. Agosto Rosa
Non-political Advertisements, Political Repercussions? The Effects of Language Cues on Immigration Attitudes
Caitlin Davies 
Translating Group Identities into Partisanship: The Role of Party Signalling
Yangzi Zhao
A Model Threat? Understanding White Racial Attitudes Towards Asian
Jonathan Chu
Inferring Intentions from Consequences: Evidence from Citizen Evaluations of Wartime Conduct
Lisa Argyle
How Context Affects Interpersonal Political Conversation
Gabriel Madson
The Effect of Issue Importance on Policy Over Party
Beyza Ekin Buyuker
Bringing the Demos Back In to the Study of Democracy: White Outgroup Prejudice and the Erosion of Democracy in the United States
Tina Lee
The Internet as a Breeding Ground for Extremist Ideology ​

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