Expertise
Media and politics; Public opinion in the law; Political psychology; Impact of television and the internet on the formation of political opinions
Background
Current Positions
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, The University of Pennsylvania; Director, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, Annenberg Public Policy Center, The University of Pennsylvania
Past Positions
Professor, The Ohio State University; Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Editor, Political Behavior
Awards
Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes—Robert Lane award for the best new book in Political Psychology (1999); Doris Graber Prize for the most influential book in Political Communication over the past ten years (2004); Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy—Goldsmith Prize from Harvard University (2007)
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University; B.S., Northwestern University