Graduate Student, Psychology
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William A. Cunningham
Russell H. Fazio |
About
I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the social psychology program at The Ohio State University. I identify primarily as a social psychologist, but also have interests in political psychology and social neuroscience. Broadly speaking, I am interested in attitudes, evaluation, and belief systems, and how their expression changes as a function of context, motivation, and identity. My primary line of research focuses on the cognitive consequences of threat and uncertainty, and the influence of these cognitive shifts on political attitudes, ideology, and behavior. Recently, we have begun to focus on the interaction of threat and uncertainty; more specifically, on how the presence or absence of threat changes the response to uncertainty. Other lines of research focus on the values underlying political ideology, the role of categorization in political policy evaluation, the processes involved in moral (vs. non-moral) judgment, and the neural underpinnings of attitudes and evaluation.
I received a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, in 2005, and a M.A. in Social Psychology (with minor concentrations in Quantitative Psychology and Political Psychology) from The Ohio State University in 2008. I plan to complete my dissertation in summer 2012.
