Winter 2023 RCGD Seminar Series – “Political Polarization”
![Michele Gelfand](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Michele-Gelfand.jpeg)
Michele Gelfand
Stanford University
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches to Collective Threat
Nov. 27, 2023
![Catherine Thomas](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-19-at-3.52.52-PM.png)
Catherine Thomas
University of Michigan
Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Effects on Psychosocial and Economic Well-Being
Dec. 4, 2023
![William J. Brady](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WilliamJBrady.png)
William J. Brady
Northwestern University
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility
Jan. 23, 2023
![Ken Kollman](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.24.37-PM.png)
Ken Kollman
Center for Political Studies
When People Change Their Partisanship, is it Bottom-Up or Top-Down?
Jan. 30, 2023
![David Dunning](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.25.20-PM.png)
David Dunning
RCGD
Motivation and Emotion in Political Thought and Division
Feb. 13, 2023
![Jennifer Wolak](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.28.05-PM.png)
Jennifer Wolak
Michigan State University
Political Embarrassment and Partisan Cooperation
Feb. 20, 2023
![Yanna Krupnikov](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2023-01-11-at-1.06.01-PM.png)
Yanna Krupnikov
Center for Political Studies
‘Unfriending’: Polarization and Political Disagreement in Social Networks
March 6, 2023
![Anne Wilson](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AnneEWilson.png)
Anne Wilson
Wilfrid Laurier University
Political polarization real and imagined: What do we get most wrong about our political opponents and does it matter?
March 13, 2023
![Shanto Iyengar](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.28.30-PM.png)
Shanto Iyengar
Stanford University
Taking Stock of Research on Affective Polarization; Looking Back and Forward
March 20, 2023
![Delia Baldassarri](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.28.51-PM.png)
Delia Baldassarri
New York University
Hearing and Seeing the Other Side: Social Network Heterogeneity in the Era of Partisan Politics
March 27, 2023
![Eli Finkel](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.29.46-PM-658x675.png)
Eli Finkel
Northwestern University
Fighting Phantoms: Disagreement vs. Disdain in the American Body Politic
April 3, 2023
![Joshua Kalla](https://rcgd.isr.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-13-at-5.29.20-PM.png)
Joshua Kalla
Yale University
Selective Exposure and Partisan Echo Chambers In Television News Consumption: Evidence from Linked Viewership, Administrative, and Survey Data
April 10, 2023