Lab Director
Ingrid J. Haas, Ph.D.
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Dr. Ingrid Haas is a Professor and Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Political Science. She is Resident Faculty in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) and Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Haas directs the Political Attitudes and Cognition (PAC) Lab. She is interested in understanding political decision making and the expression of political attitudes and beliefs, and how decision making and attitude expression are influenced by contextual factors such as emotion and identity. She conducts interdisciplinary research on political behavior using theory and methods from political psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience in the context of American politics and international security. Her specific areas of expertise include attitudes, social cognition, emotion, prejudice, social identity, experimental and survey design, quantitative research methods and statistics, and structural and functional MRI (sMRI/fMRI). The lab is currently funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She earned a PhD and MA in social psychology from The Ohio State University, and BA in psychology from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Lab Alumni
Lab Managers
Brendan Fee, PhD Student, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Affiliated Graduate Students
Frank Gonzalez, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Kyle Hull, Assistant Professor, Fitchburg State University
Dean Jackson, Business Analyst
Lukasz Niparko, Data Fellow, Death Penalty Information Center
John Peterson, Assistant Professor, Palo Alto College
Stephen Schneider, Senior UX Researcher, Microsoft
Allison Skinner, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Noelle Troutman, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa
Clarisse Warren, Senior Research Analyst, The Olinger Group
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Molly Arnold, Fiserv
Melissa Baker, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
Jacob Berggren
Allison Black, United States District Court for the District of Nebraska
Megan Elbel, University of California-San Diego
Audrey Ellis
Justice Forte, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Carly Gartner, Marquette University
Mary Gerend
Ritsa Giannakas, University of Michigan
Mercedes Gilliland
Maria Green, UNMC College of Medicine
James Gunn, Baruch College
Allison Haindfield, Conagra Brands
Jessie Harlan, University of Chicago
Claire Jumper, Washington University
Alyssa (Meyer) Culbertson, Nebraska Medicine
Dylan Patrick, United States Senate
Matt Price, Georgetown University Law Center
Zein Saleh, Northwestern University
Marley Sandberg, Brennan, Nielsen, & Wooster Law Offices
Jude Stallworth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jessica Stump, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sarah Sweeney, University of Washington
Lauren Van Treeck
Peyton Walsh
Christian Washington
Faculty Collaborators
Wil Cunningham, Psychology, University of Toronto
Mike Dodd, Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Pierce Ekstrom, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Russ Fazio, Psychology, The Ohio State University
Geoff Lorenz, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rupal Mehta, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Maital Neta, Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dominic Packer, Psychology, Lehigh University
Ya Hui Michelle See, Psychology, National University of Singapore
Kevin Smith, Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jay Van Bavel, Psychology, New York University