Political Psychology Proseminar, Fall 2015
POL 8307/PSY 8211
Friday, 9-11a.m., 1314 Social Science Building (Lippincott Room)
Professors Howard Lavine and Eugene Borgida
Sept. 11: Organizational meeting
Sept. 18: Review of the 2012 Minnesota Multi-Investigator Presidential Election Panel
Study
Chen, P.G., et al. 2014. The Minnesota Multi-Investigator 2012 Presidential Election Panel
Study. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 14, 78-104.
Draft of Grant-in-Aid proposal due 9/21/15.
Sept. 25: Reproducibility
Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2005). Why most published research findings are false. Chance, 18(4), 40-47.
DOI:10.1080/09332480.2005.10722754.
Open Science Collaboration. (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.
Science, 349 (6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716.
Oct 2: Reproducibility – media coverage
Carey, B. (Aug. 27, 2015). Many psychology findings not as strong as claimed, study says. New
York Times. http://nyti.ms/1JoE6N6.
Carey, B. (Aug. 29, 2015). Analysis casting doubt on their work is still welcomed by many
psychologists. New York Times.
Bartlett, T. (Aug. 28, 2015). The results of the reproducibility project are in. They’re not good.
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Barrett, L.F. (Sept. 1, 2015). Psychology is not in crisis. New York Times.
Begley, C.G., Buchan, A.M., & Dirnagl, U. (2015). Institutions must do their part for
reproducibility. Nature, 525 (9-3-15), 25-27.
10/9: Collaboration within Psychological Science
Zweigenhaft, R. L., & Borgida, E. 2016. Collaboration in Psychological Science: Behind the
Scenes. New York: Worth Publishers
Abrams, Dominic and Michael A. Hogg. Building Bridges: A Study of Collaboration across
Three Continents
Hatfield, Elaine and Ellen Berscheid, In Research as in Love, One is the Loneliest Number
Dovidio, John F. and Samuel L. Gaertner. Living What we Learn: Dual Identity and
Collaboration.
Fiske, Susan T. and Shelley E. Taylor. Collaboration: Interdependence in Action.
Greenberg, Jeff, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon. Psychology's Folie a Trois: Till
Death Do Us Part.
Hewstone, Miles and Robin Martin. “One of us:”Collaboration and Complementarity in
pursuit of the enigma of minority influence.
Judd, Charles M. and Bernadette Park. Social Cognition about a Collaboration in Social
Cognition.
Markus, Hazel Rose and Shinobu Kitayama, Dialogues across Difference: The Two Self
Solution.
Nisbett, Richard E. and Lee Ross. A Fifty-Year Conversation.
Shaver, Phillip R. and Mario Mikulincer. An International Collaboration Based on Similarity
and Complementarity.
10/16: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
Borgida, Eugene and John L. Sullivan. Still Collaborating After all these Years.
Gangestad, Steven W. Scientific Collaboration Illustrates Extraordinary Features of our
Species – and the Risks they Entail.
Sherman, Steven J. A Career of Collaborations: A Plan Designed to NOT Get You Tenure in
Today's World.
Wells, Gary L. Some Functions and Dysfunctions of Collaboration.
Zweigenhaft, Richard L. Studying Diversity in the American Power Structure, Collaboratively.
10/23: Collaboration with Institutional and Community Partners
Breckler, Steven J. Social Psychology and National Science Policy.
Cantor, Nancy and Peter Englot. Psychological Science in Public: It Takes a Diverse Village to
Make a Difference.
Cohen, Geoffrey L and Julio Garcia. No Researcher is an Island.
Jackson, James S. The Program for Research on Black Americans: Team Science in the Study
of Ethnic and Racial Influences
Loken, Barbara and Deborah Roedder John. Getting Real: Collaboration in Applied
Psychological Research.
Snyder, Mark, and Allen M. Omoto. Finding the Sweet Spot: What Makes for Successful
Collaboration?
10/30: Causal Inference Through Natural Experiments
Enos, Ryan. 2015. “What the Demolition of Public Housing Teaches Us About the Impact of
Racial Threat on Political Behavior.” American Journal of Political Science, DOI:
10.1111/ajps.12156.
Gerber, Alan S., and Gregory A. Huber. 2009. “Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do
Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?” American
Political Science Review, 103: 407-426.
Krasno, Jonathan S., and Donald P. Green. 2009. “Do Televised Presidential Ads Increase Voter
Turnout? Evidence From a Natural Experiment. Journal of Politics, 70: 245-261.
11/6: Panel designs
Introduction to Panel Data Analysis.
Bartels, Larry. 1999. Panel Effects in the American National Election Studies. Political Analysis,
8, 1-20.
11/13: Panel designs
Lenz, Gabriel. 2012. Follow the Leader: How Voters Respond to Politicians’ Policies and
Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11/20-12/11: Planning for 2016 Multi-investigator study