Scholarly research has demonstrated rather conclusively that American political elites have
undergone a marked partisan polarization over the past thirty years. There is less …

Taber and Lodge offer a powerful case for the prevalence of directional reasoning that aims
not at truth, but at the vindication of prior opinions. Taber and Lodge's results have far …

Across three separate experiments, I find that exposure to negative political information
continues to shape attitudes even after the information has been effectively discredited. I call …

This book explores the political implications of the human tendency to prioritize negative
information over positive information. Drawing on literatures in political science, psychology …

Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time, a scholarly controversy
has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are …

This article examines the conditions under which partisan identities shape the positions
people express on four political values: equal opportunity, self‐reliance, moral …

Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party
leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that …

When government fails, whom do citizens blame? Do these assessments rely on biased or
content-rich information? Despite the vast literatures on retrospective voting in political …

Public performance reporting is often promoted as a means to better inform citizens'
judgments of public services. However, political psychology has found evidence of …

Political trust has never returned to Great Society-era levels. Conventional wisdom suggests
that chronically poor performance explains why. Over the last 25 years, however …