You are invited to a conference on:

The Psychology of Voting and Election Campaigns

at Duke University, October 20 and 21, 2006

This exciting interdisciplinary conference will bring together
outstanding psychologists with political scientists to address the
psychology of elections. Elections transform power relationships and the
lives of everyday citizens, but at its core, voting is a psychological
act. Understanding why Americans vote as they do illuminates fundamental
aspects of human decision-making and social relations. In this spirit,
the conference will identify new avenues for developing basic
psychological theory through data collected by the American National
Election Study surveys between 2007 and 2009. Sixteen scholars will
present research that strengthens the critical intellectual bridge
between psychology and the investigation of contemporary American
politics.

Each presentation will be followed by an extensive discussion among all
conference participants of the issues raised during the presentation.

Breakfast will be provided to conference attendees, and a nearby hotel
will be available for anyone wishing to attend and stay overnight.

The speakers will include:

- Susan M. Andersen, Department of Psychology, New York University
- Tanya Chartrand, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- Geoffrey Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
- Gavan J. Fitzsimons, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- Jack Glaser, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of
California, Berkeley
- John T. Jost, Department of Psychology, New York University
- Charles Judd, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
- Lee Jussim, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
- Joachim Krueger, Department of Psychology, Brown University
- Brian Nosek, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- Keith Payne, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina
- Richard E. Petty, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University
- Eldar Shafir, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
- Jim Shah, Department of Psychology, Duke University
- Stacey Sinclair, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- Eliot R. Smith, Department of Psychology, Indiana University,
Bloomington

The conference is being hosted by Duke University's Social Science
Research Institute, in collaboration with the American National Election
Studies, and is being funded by the Science Directorate of the American
Psychological Association, the Social Science Research Institute at
Duke, the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan,
the American National Election Study, and the National Science
Foundation.

Conference organizers are Jon Krosnick (Stanford), Wendy Wood (Duke),
Skip Lupia (University of Michigan), and John Aldrich (Duke).

For more information, please consult http://www.ssri.duke.edu/anes/
or contact Barbara Potter ([log in to unmask]).

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