Study sign-up: Please email the lab at bfee2@unl.edu to sign up for a research study.
The PAC Lab studies attitudes, social cognition, emotion, social identity, and prejudice. We examine how people's political attitudes and beliefs are structured and how the expression of political attitudes is influenced by a variety of situational factors. Our approach to research is interdisciplinary, combining ideas and methods from political psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. We are currently recruiting participants for MRI studies in the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior at UNL.
Current Lab Projects
- How do political elites make decisions about issues related to national and international security?
- What is the relationship between political ideology and morality and how do they interact to guide behavior?
- What leads to endorsement of conspiracy theories? Do situational factors like threat, power, trust, and status lead to increased endorsement of these ideas?
- What are the neural underpinnings of political evaluation? How do people process evaluative information that is incongruent and/or uncertain? What is the impact of political identity and group membership on evaluative processing?
- How does causal attribution influence attitudes and tolerance toward political outgroups?
Information for Research Participants
Current Studies
Please email the lab at paclab@unl.edu to sign up for a research study. If you're interested in being contacted about additional research opportunities in the center, consider also joining the CB3 Research Participant Volunteer Registry.
Safety screening
The MRI safety screening form is available here, and our latest consent form can be found here. You will be asked to fill this out when you come in for your appointment.
Preparing for your appointment
See the MRI Lab website for more information.
Directions
The Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) is located in Memorial Stadium on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The entrance to CB3 is located at the southeast corner of the stadium between gates 22 and 23. Parking is available for East Stadium research participants directly east of the stadium (enter the parking lot at N 14th St and Vine St and follow the inner loop to the spots closest to the stadium). The easiest routes to access this parking lot are either coming from the East on Vine St. or from the North on 14th St. If you do park in one of these spots, you will need to sign in with your vehicle's information when you arrive at CB3.
