Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop

The Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop is a biweekly interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of current research that uses a psychological and empirical orientation to examine the microfoundations of citizen and elite behavior. Our topics include but are not limited to identity, emotion, culture, beliefs, preferences (including public opinion and individual preferences), rationality, norms, cognition, group dynamics, ethnic politics, context effects, attribution, information, bargaining and trust. This is a methodologically plural forum open to faculty, graduate students, and other members of the academic community.

Lunch begins at 12:00 and discussion of the paper will begin promptly at 12:15 p.m in Room K354. Click on the links below to access the schedules and papers.

October 9, 2009
12:00pm2:00pm
Ecologies of Unease: Geographic Context and National Economic Evaluations
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October 23, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
Primary Voters vs. Caucus Goers and the Peripheral Motivations of Political Participation
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November 20, 2009
12:00pm2:00pm
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December 4, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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February 6, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Why do Republicans Treat Jake Better than DeShawn?”
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February 27, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Why are some civic associations more effective than others? The Effect of Leadership on Public Recognition of Civic Associations”
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March 13, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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“The Face of Immigration: Examining the Effects of Racial Primes on Attitudes about Immigration”
April 24, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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  • Laura Evans (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/University of Washington)
“TBA”
May 1, 2009
12:00pm1:30pm
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“TBA”
September 26, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Reality Asserts Itself: Public Opinion on Iraq and the Elasticity of Reality (with Tim Groeling, UCLA)”
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October 3, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Reward and Punish: Career Advancement in the US Congress”
October 10, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Which Buck Stops Here? Accountability for Policy Positions and Policy Outcomes”
October 17, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Parties and Movements in American Political Development: Patterns of Alliance from Free Soil to Gay Rights”
November 14, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Do Party Cues Affect Policy Opinions in New Party Systems? Survey Experiments in Three Post-Communist Countries”
December 12, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“Moving Out, Moving Up: Housing Mobility and the Political Participation of the Poor”
February 8, 2008
11:00am12:30pm
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“untitled”
February 29, 2008
11:00am12:30pm
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“Who Votes Now? And Does it Matter?”
March 7, 2008
11:00am12:30pm
Putting the Political Back in Political Psychology
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  • Eric Oliver (University of Chicago (co-sponsored with CAPS))
“Putting the Political Back in Political Psychology”
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April 18, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“(title tbd)”
April 25, 2008
12:00pm1:30pm
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“(title tbd)”
March 2, 2007
7:00am8:30am
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“The Effect of Descriptive Social Norms on Voter Turnout: The Importance of Accentuating the Positive”
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March 23, 2007
8:00am9:30am
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“A Theory of Political Parties”
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April 6, 2007
8:00am9:30am
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“Parenthood and the Authoritarian Impulse”
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April 16, 2007
8:00am9:30am
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“Testing for priming while avoiding endogeneity bias: 13 panel cases”
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April 20, 2007
8:00am9:30am
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“The Dynamics of Public Opinion on Ethnic Profiling After 9/11: Results from a Survey Experiment”
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May 4, 2007
8:00am9:30am
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“Representation and American Political Institutions”
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September 29, 2006
8:00am9:30am
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“The Interactive Nature of Patriarchy and Arbitrary-set Hierarchy”
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October 6, 2006
8:00am9:30am
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“Ideological Balancing, Generic Polls, and Midterm Congressional Elections”
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October 20, 2006
8:00am9:30am
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“Crossing the Water's Edge: Elite Rhetoric, Media Coverage and the Rally-Round-the-Flag Phenomenon, 1979-2003”
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November 10, 2006
7:00am8:30am
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“Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification”
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April 15, 2006
8:00am9:30am
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“Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification”
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February 12, 2004
7:00am8:30am
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“Shaken, Not Stirred: Evidence on Ballot Order Effects from the California Alphabet Lottery”
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February 26, 2004
7:00am8:30am
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“Policy Feedbacks in Retirement? Why Pension Income is a Poor Predictor of Pension Policy Preferences in European Welfare States”
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March 11, 2004
7:00am8:30am
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“Discounting Politics: The Impact of Large Retailers on American Communities”
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April 9, 2004
8:00am9:30am
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“Affect and Politics: Effects on Judgment, Processing, and Information Selection”
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April 15, 2004
8:00am9:30am
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“The Microfoundations of Contamination Effects: Party Choice in New Zealand's Mixed Electoral System”
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April 22, 2004
8:00am9:30am
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“American Public Opinion and World War II”
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April 29, 2004
8:00am9:30am
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“A Theory of the Dynamics of Political Participation”
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September 18, 2003
8:00am9:30am
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“Stand by your Man? Strategic Voting among Nader Supporters in Election 2000”
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October 2, 2003
8:00am9:30am
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“Political Disaster? Electoral Politics and Presidential Disaster Declarations”
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October 30, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Through a Glass and Darkly: Framing Effects and Individuals? Attitudes Toward International Trade”
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November 6, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Going it Alone? Strategic Entry Under Mixed Electoral Rules”
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November 20, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Policy Feedbacks and Mass Publics”
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December 4, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Rolling the Dice On Election Day: Risk Seeking and Political Participation”
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December 11, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Skin Color, Perceptions of Discrimination, and Racial or Ethnic Identity: What Are the Links, and Why?”
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February 6, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Race of Candidate Effects on Vote Support and Candidate Evaluation”
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February 20, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“A Theory of Reference-Dependent Fairness Preferences”
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March 6, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Electoral Behavior”
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March 20, 2003
7:00am8:30am
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“The Feeling of Rationality: The Meaning of Neuroscientific Advances for Political Science”
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April 10, 2003
8:00am9:30am
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“The Variance of Presidential Approval”
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April 24, 2003
8:00am9:30am
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“The Political (and Economic) Origins of Consumer Confidence”
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September 26, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“Explaining Variance Or, "Stuck in a Moment We Can't Get Out Of"”
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October 10, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“Enhancing the Validity and Cross-cultural Comparability of Survey Research”
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October 24, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“The importance of statistical methodology for analyzing data from field experimentation”
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October 24, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“Turnout in a Small World”
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November 21, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Examining relationships between intergroup contact and prejudice: A meta-analytic investigation”
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December 5, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Framing, Deliberation, and Opinions about Campaign Finance Reform”
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February 6, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Race of Candidate Effects on Vote Support and Candidate Evaluation”
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February 7, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Applying Social Identity Theory to the Study of International Politics: A Plea for Caution”
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February 20, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“A Theory of Reference-Dependent Fairness Preferences”
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February 21, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Personal Identity - Fortress of the Individual in a World of Performance? The Self, Law and Social Power”
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March 7, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Recent Advances in Neuroscience and their Implications for Political Science: Toward a Theory of Emotional Rationality”
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March 21, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“Maximize What? - the Completeness Assumption and Rational Choice Theory”
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April 4, 2002
7:00am8:30am
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“The Collegiate Social Network Interaction Project”
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April 18, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“Constructivism All the Way Down: Identifying Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy 1955/99”
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May 2, 2002
8:00am9:30am
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“Making Facts: a Theory about the Role of Expectations in Coup Dynamics and Outcomes”
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September 20, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“Power Politics and the Balance of Risk”
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October 4, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“Bringing Politics to the Study of Voter Behavior: Menu Dependence in Voter Choice”
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October 18, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“Social Mechanisms and Political Creativity”
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November 1, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Increasing Accuracy and Bias: The Costs and Benefits of Self-knowledge in Behavioral Prediction”
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November 1, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences”
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November 15, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Women in Black: The Effects of Sex on Judicial Decision Making”
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November 29, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Legislators and their Constituencies: Representation in the 106th Congress”
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December 13, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Representation versus Self-Interest in U.S. Politics: The Cases of Tobacco Regulation and School Choice”
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February 8, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“The Smoking Gun: How Focusing Events Transform Politics”
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February 22, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Test of the Socialization Theory of Realignment”
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March 8, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Measuring Legislators' Perceptions of Constituent Intensity”
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March 22, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Group Consciousness and the Political Mobilization of the Elderly”
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April 5, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“The Leadership Factor in the Russian Presidential Election of 1996”
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May 3, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“Individual-Targeted Tolerance and Timing of Group Membership Disclosure”
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May 10, 2001
8:00am9:30am
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“From Budding to Blooming: How the Timing of Lives Affects Political and Civic Engagement”
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September 28, 2000
8:00am9:30am
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“Of Race and Place: An Experimental Study of Group Conflict Theory”
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October 12, 2000
8:00am9:30am
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“Political Talking Partners and Civic Engagement”
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October 26, 2000
8:00am9:30am
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“Community Participation and Social Sanctions in Kenyan Schools”
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November 9, 2000
7:00am8:30am
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“The Effects of Uncertainty on Weapons Procurement in Simulated Crisis Game”
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November 30, 2000
7:00am8:30am
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“But Do They Really Vote? Correcting for Overreporting of Turnout”
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December 28, 2000
7:00am8:30am
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“Acts of Faith: Strict Churches and Political Mobilization”
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January 11, 2001
7:00am8:30am
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“Affect and Cognition in Party Identification: An Experimental Proposal (In Both Senses of the Word)”
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