Lab Director
Ingrid Johnsen Haas, Ph.D.
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Dr. Ingrid Haas is a Professor 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). 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, Tech Entrepreneur
John Peterson, Associate Professor, Palo Alto College
Stephen Schneider, Senior UX Researcher, Microsoft
Allison Skinner, Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Noelle Troutman, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa
Clarisse Warren, Managing Partner & Quantitative Research Lead, CommonGood Research Collective
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Molly Arnold, Conagra Brands
Melissa Baker, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
Jacob Berggren
Allison Black, Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic
Megan Elbel, University of California-San Diego
Audrey Ellis
Justice Forte, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
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, Completely KIDS
Claire Jumper, University of Kansas
Alyssa (Meyer) Culbertson, Nebraska Medicine
Dylan Patrick, United States Senate
Matt Price, Georgetown University Law Center
Zein Saleh, Northwestern University
Marley Sandberg, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Jude Stallworth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jessica Stump, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sarah Sweeney, University of Washington
Lauren Van Treeck
Peyton Walsh
Christian Washington, Creighton University School of Law
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, San Diego State University
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