Atlantic Forum: Uneasy Politics

Americans are living through a highly emotional time in contemporary politics. Anxiety over Covid-19 and the 2020 election has affected political attitudes and behaviors. Further, these threats are being filtered through partisanship, such that Democrats and Republicans are in disagreement over the nature of threats and the desirable solutions. As Americans are threatened by a pandemic and as some politicians work to undermine political institutions, partisanship conditions the emotions that Americans feel and the policies they support.

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is a political psychologist and received her PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to UT, she was on faculty at the University of Washington and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. At UT, she has been a Donald D. Harrington Fellow, and was awarded the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, in recognition for excellence in undergraduate teaching.