Stanley Feldman

Biography

Stanley Feldman has been a professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University for the past 30 years. He received his Bachelor of Art at Stony Brook and then attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a Ph. D in Political Science. He was the associate director for the Stony Brook University Center for Survey Research, from 2000 - 2015. He was a co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2005 to 2010 and is a past president of the International Society for Political Psychology.  His current research focuses on political ideology and political psychology.

Research

Stanley Feldman’s research focuses on the origins of political preferences. He is particularly interested in the structure of political ideology and values, and the psychological bases of attitudes and opinions. Feldman is currently working on projects to better understand the effects of authoritarianism on partisanship, voting, and political conflict. He also examines how the effects of anger from people's media consumption, and the extent to which they accept and pass along fake news on platforms affect American politics and political communication. His work has examined the impact of personality characteristics on political attitudes, particularly authoritarianism. He is also interested in the role of emotions in politics and public responses to terrorism and threat.

Publications - Articles

Andrew Engelhardt, Stanley Feldman, and Marc Hetherington (forthcoming), Advancing the Measurement of Authoritarianism . Political Behavior.  

Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, Julie Wronski, and Patrick Lown (2019), The Interplay of Empathy and Individualism in Support for Social Welfare Policies. Political Psychology.

Benjamin Newman, Todd Hartman, Patrick Lown, and Stanley Feldman (2015), Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration . British Journal of Political Science, 45: 583-607.

Stanley Feldman and Christopher Johnston (2014), Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity . Political Psychology, 35: 337-358.

Publications - Books

Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, and George Marcus (2015), Going to War in Iraq: When Citizens and the Press Matter . University of Chicago Press.

Teaching

News

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• Professor Stanley Feldman comments on Buffalo mayoral primary race
• How authoritarianism is shaping American politics (and it’s not just about Trump)
• Professor Stanley Feldman gives his insight in this New York Times Op-Ed.
• How Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency
• Why Recent Violence is Unlikely to Increase Support for Donald Trump
• Responding to Orlando attack, elected officials walk politicization tight-rope