CB3: Ingrid Haas

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Ingrid Haas is an assistant professor of political science. She works in the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://cb3.unl.edu/

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[00:00:02.591]The overall goal of my research is to try to understand
[00:00:05.322]both the structure of attitudes and beliefs
[00:00:07.371]and the function of attitudes and beliefs.
[00:00:09.551]So, we try to understand people's social and political
[00:00:13.052]beliefs and how they change as a function
[00:00:15.011]of different types of situational constraints.
[00:00:17.752]So when people are feeling uncertain or threatened,
[00:00:20.891]for example, how does that shift their attitudes
[00:00:23.632]and how does that lead to changes in terms of things
[00:00:25.611]like political tolerance or support for compromise.
[00:00:29.092]My lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to research.
[00:00:32.232]So we use a combination of methods.
[00:00:33.992]We do some just sort of traditional laboratory experiments,
[00:00:37.252]we also do online survey data collection,
[00:00:40.092]and then we also make use of newer methods
[00:00:42.812]in neuroscience like functional MRI.
[00:00:45.732]Using MRI we try to understand
[00:00:47.512]the neural underpinnings of these effects.
[00:00:49.632]So what's going on in the brain in response to
[00:00:51.912]these sorts of emotional experiences
[00:00:53.672]that might be leading to shifts
[00:00:55.332]in terms of the social and political outcomes.
[00:00:58.092]This is a really exciting time for people
[00:00:59.593]working in this area because political psychology
[00:01:02.132]is relatively new and political neuroscience,
[00:01:04.412]as some people are calling it, is even newer.
[00:01:07.072]But if we think about politics
[00:01:08.716]as just sort of an extension of our psychology
[00:01:11.336]and our social behavior on a smaller scale,
[00:01:13.876]then it makes a lot of sense to look how these things
[00:01:16.156]are related to processes in the brain as well.
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