Carolyn L Funk
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1120586 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carolyn L Funk |
| NOMBRES | Carolyn L |
| APELLIDO | Funk |
| FIRMA | FUNK C L |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1338 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Genetic Foundations of Political Behavior
A fast-growing area of research is now aimed at understanding the biological bases of political behavior. This chapter reviews what is known about the genetic underpinnings of political behavior including political ideology, partisanship, political interest, knowledge, and participation. For each, it highlights what is known, what is largely speculative, and what questions need to be addressed. The findings raise new questions about our understan…
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations
This article reports results from the first twin study of adults in the United States that focuses exclusively and comprehensively on political traits. These data allow us to test whether a common set of genetic and environmental influences act upon a broad variety of values, personality traits, and political attitudes. In short, it allows us to empirically investigate whether there are a core set of predispositions that form the basis of our pol…
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Attitudes Over a Life Time
Recently political scientists have looked anew at the source of political preferences and find support for the heuristic that political attitudes and behaviors are influenced by endogenous factors. The present research attempts to characterize how the transmission of political orientations develops over the life course. Using longitudinal data collected on twins throughout childhood and adolescence combined with cross-sectional data from adult tw…
Twin Studies, Molecular Genetics, Politics, and Tolerance
Beckwith and Morris raise concerns about the value of twin studies for understanding the role of genetics in complex human behavior, but virtually all of their concerns have been raised and rebutted before. When it comes to the equal environments assumption (EEA), the best approach is to test for and control possible violations of the EEA on heritability estimates rather than merely rejecting all empirical evidence because of the possibility of E…
Beyond Liberals and Conservatives to Political Genotypes and Phenotypes
In the past, most political scientists have been oblivious to the growing empirical evidence challenging environmental determinism. Professor Charney, apparently as a result of the fact that genes and the environment interact in a complex fashion, advocates that this passive unawareness be replaced by active denial. Science, however, does not advance by avoiding important relationships merely because they are complicated and, fortunately, science…
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted
We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in behavioral genetics-specifically, comparisons of the differential correlations of the attitudes of monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins-we analyze data drawn from a large sample of twins in the United States, supplemented with findings from twins in Australia. The results indicat…
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
Evidence that political attitudes are influenced by a concern for socetal interest has been viewed with skepticism since expressions of societal interest could reflect a disguised self-interest. More convincing evidence of societal interest motivations requires citizens to sacrifice self-interest in public policy opinions. The present study examines the influence of both self and societal interest in order to test whether self-sacrifice underlies…
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions
The persistence hypothesis holds that core political predispositions tend to be highly stable through the life span. It has rarely been tested directly, given the scarcity of long-term, large-sample longitudinal studies. We address it using the Terman longitudinal study, in which the party identification and ideology of 1,272 respondents were measured on four occasions between 1940 and 1977, from roughly age 30 to retirement age. These partisan a…
Bringing the Candidate into Models of Candidate Evaluation
Candidate characteristics are often treated as a lump sum that can be pulled apart but ultimately sum together in models of candidate evaluation. The present study asks, first, whether distinctions among traits are useful for models of candidate evaluation. Second, it considers whether the role of substantive trait dimensions in overall evaluation is uniform across candidates or varies by candidate and electoral context. Latent variable structura…
Conflict Avoidance and Political Participation
Practicing What We Preach? The Influence of a Societal Interest Value on Civic Engagement
Recently, much attention has focused on declining levels of civic engagement as a symptom of a wide range of social ills. Some claim that Americans' tendency to endorse individualistic beliefs to the exclusion of a collective or societal interest value accounts for declining levels of civic engagement. This study investigated whether a value commitment to benefit the collective, called societal interest, helps to explain civic engagement. Data fr…
The Relationship between Personal and National Concerns in Public Perceptions about the Economy
The Relationship Between Personal and National Concerns in Public Perceptions About the Economy
Although a large body of evidence has highlighted public perceptions of the national economy as a critical determinant of political evaluations, there is still considerable debate over how to interpret this relationship. Sociotropic voting is sometimes taken as evidence of civic-minded concern for collective conditions among the masses. Critics of this interpretation argue that self- interest operates indirectly through perceptions of national ec…
Implications of Political Expertise in Candidate Trait Evaluations
Candidate trait images have an important impact on global judgment. The present study addresses (1) which traits matter in candidate evalua tions and (2) political expertise differences in trait-based evaluations. An unweighted version of the on-line processing model would suggest that all traits impact the running tally in equal measure. Others have argued that some traits (in particular, more task-relevant traits) should matter more than others…
The impact of scandal on candidate evaluations
The Role of Self-Interest in Social and Political Attitudes
Graduate Education in Political Psychology
Data are presented from a survey of graduate courses and graduate training programs in in the United States and Canada. Courses labeled political psychology are of relatively recent vintage and are offered most often in science departments. They generally do not cover the entire field, but focus on one of three major areas: mass behavior, personality and politics, or the of international relations. Most major science departments now offer courses…
Are We Reaching Undergraduates? A Survey of Course Offerings in Political Psychology
This paper assesses the progress of psychology as a distinct field in U.S. educational institutions as indexed by course offerings for undergraduates in the area. Using a mail questionnaire to faculty with interests in psychology, we identified 100 courses from 78 different institutions across the United States and Canada which can be broadly defined as psychology. About half of these courses are given at least yearly. In total, psychology is tau…
The limited effect of economic self-interest on the political attitudes of the mass public
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted
We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in behavioral genetics-specifically, comparisons of the differential correlations of the attitudes of monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins-we analyze data drawn from a large sample of twins in the United States, supplemented with findings from twins in Australia. The results indicat…
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions
The persistence hypothesis holds that core political predispositions tend to be highly stable through the life span. It has rarely been tested directly, given the scarcity of long-term, large-sample longitudinal studies. We address it using the Terman longitudinal study, in which the party identification and ideology of 1,272 respondents were measured on four occasions between 1940 and 1977, from roughly age 30 to retirement age. These partisan a…
Bringing the Candidate into Models of Candidate Evaluation
Candidate characteristics are often treated as a lump sum that can be pulled apart but ultimately sum together in models of candidate evaluation. The present study asks, first, whether distinctions among traits are useful for models of candidate evaluation. Second, it considers whether the role of substantive trait dimensions in overall evaluation is uniform across candidates or varies by candidate and electoral context. Latent variable structura…
The impact of scandal on candidate evaluations
Conflict Avoidance and Political Participation
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Attitudes Over a Life Time
Recently political scientists have looked anew at the source of political preferences and find support for the heuristic that political attitudes and behaviors are influenced by endogenous factors. The present research attempts to characterize how the transmission of political orientations develops over the life course. Using longitudinal data collected on twins throughout childhood and adolescence combined with cross-sectional data from adult tw…
Implications of Political Expertise in Candidate Trait Evaluations
Candidate trait images have an important impact on global judgment. The present study addresses (1) which traits matter in candidate evalua tions and (2) political expertise differences in trait-based evaluations. An unweighted version of the on-line processing model would suggest that all traits impact the running tally in equal measure. Others have argued that some traits (in particular, more task-relevant traits) should matter more than others…
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
Evidence that political attitudes are influenced by a concern for socetal interest has been viewed with skepticism since expressions of societal interest could reflect a disguised self-interest. More convincing evidence of societal interest motivations requires citizens to sacrifice self-interest in public policy opinions. The present study examines the influence of both self and societal interest in order to test whether self-sacrifice underlies…
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations
This article reports results from the first twin study of adults in the United States that focuses exclusively and comprehensively on political traits. These data allow us to test whether a common set of genetic and environmental influences act upon a broad variety of values, personality traits, and political attitudes. In short, it allows us to empirically investigate whether there are a core set of predispositions that form the basis of our pol…
The Relationship Between Personal and National Concerns in Public Perceptions About the Economy
Although a large body of evidence has highlighted public perceptions of the national economy as a critical determinant of political evaluations, there is still considerable debate over how to interpret this relationship. Sociotropic voting is sometimes taken as evidence of civic-minded concern for collective conditions among the masses. Critics of this interpretation argue that self- interest operates indirectly through perceptions of national ec…
Beyond Liberals and Conservatives to Political Genotypes and Phenotypes
In the past, most political scientists have been oblivious to the growing empirical evidence challenging environmental determinism. Professor Charney, apparently as a result of the fact that genes and the environment interact in a complex fashion, advocates that this passive unawareness be replaced by active denial. Science, however, does not advance by avoiding important relationships merely because they are complicated and, fortunately, science…
Practicing What We Preach? The Influence of a Societal Interest Value on Civic Engagement
Recently, much attention has focused on declining levels of civic engagement as a symptom of a wide range of social ills. Some claim that Americans' tendency to endorse individualistic beliefs to the exclusion of a collective or societal interest value accounts for declining levels of civic engagement. This study investigated whether a value commitment to benefit the collective, called societal interest, helps to explain civic engagement. Data fr…
Twin Studies, Molecular Genetics, Politics, and Tolerance
Beckwith and Morris raise concerns about the value of twin studies for understanding the role of genetics in complex human behavior, but virtually all of their concerns have been raised and rebutted before. When it comes to the equal environments assumption (EEA), the best approach is to test for and control possible violations of the EEA on heritability estimates rather than merely rejecting all empirical evidence because of the possibility of E…
Graduate Education in Political Psychology
Data are presented from a survey of graduate courses and graduate training programs in in the United States and Canada. Courses labeled political psychology are of relatively recent vintage and are offered most often in science departments. They generally do not cover the entire field, but focus on one of three major areas: mass behavior, personality and politics, or the of international relations. Most major science departments now offer courses…
Are We Reaching Undergraduates? A Survey of Course Offerings in Political Psychology
This paper assesses the progress of psychology as a distinct field in U.S. educational institutions as indexed by course offerings for undergraduates in the area. Using a mail questionnaire to faculty with interests in psychology, we identified 100 courses from 78 different institutions across the United States and Canada which can be broadly defined as psychology. About half of these courses are given at least yearly. In total, psychology is tau…
The limited effect of economic self-interest on the political attitudes of the mass public
The Role of Self-Interest in Social and Political Attitudes
Graduate Education in Political Psychology
Data are presented from a survey of graduate courses and graduate training programs in in the United States and Canada. Courses labeled political psychology are of relatively recent vintage and are offered most often in science departments. They generally do not cover the entire field, but focus on one of three major areas: mass behavior, personality and politics, or the of international relations. Most major science departments now offer courses…
Are We Reaching Undergraduates? A Survey of Course Offerings in Political Psychology
This paper assesses the progress of psychology as a distinct field in U.S. educational institutions as indexed by course offerings for undergraduates in the area. Using a mail questionnaire to faculty with interests in psychology, we identified 100 courses from 78 different institutions across the United States and Canada which can be broadly defined as psychology. About half of these courses are given at least yearly. In total, psychology is tau…
The impact of scandal on candidate evaluations
The Relationship between Personal and National Concerns in Public Perceptions about the Economy
The Relationship Between Personal and National Concerns in Public Perceptions About the Economy
Although a large body of evidence has highlighted public perceptions of the national economy as a critical determinant of political evaluations, there is still considerable debate over how to interpret this relationship. Sociotropic voting is sometimes taken as evidence of civic-minded concern for collective conditions among the masses. Critics of this interpretation argue that self- interest operates indirectly through perceptions of national ec…
Implications of Political Expertise in Candidate Trait Evaluations
Candidate trait images have an important impact on global judgment. The present study addresses (1) which traits matter in candidate evalua tions and (2) political expertise differences in trait-based evaluations. An unweighted version of the on-line processing model would suggest that all traits impact the running tally in equal measure. Others have argued that some traits (in particular, more task-relevant traits) should matter more than others…
Practicing What We Preach? The Influence of a Societal Interest Value on Civic Engagement
Recently, much attention has focused on declining levels of civic engagement as a symptom of a wide range of social ills. Some claim that Americans' tendency to endorse individualistic beliefs to the exclusion of a collective or societal interest value accounts for declining levels of civic engagement. This study investigated whether a value commitment to benefit the collective, called societal interest, helps to explain civic engagement. Data fr…
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions
The persistence hypothesis holds that core political predispositions tend to be highly stable through the life span. It has rarely been tested directly, given the scarcity of long-term, large-sample longitudinal studies. We address it using the Terman longitudinal study, in which the party identification and ideology of 1,272 respondents were measured on four occasions between 1940 and 1977, from roughly age 30 to retirement age. These partisan a…
Bringing the Candidate into Models of Candidate Evaluation
Candidate characteristics are often treated as a lump sum that can be pulled apart but ultimately sum together in models of candidate evaluation. The present study asks, first, whether distinctions among traits are useful for models of candidate evaluation. Second, it considers whether the role of substantive trait dimensions in overall evaluation is uniform across candidates or varies by candidate and electoral context. Latent variable structura…
Conflict Avoidance and Political Participation
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
Evidence that political attitudes are influenced by a concern for socetal interest has been viewed with skepticism since expressions of societal interest could reflect a disguised self-interest. More convincing evidence of societal interest motivations requires citizens to sacrifice self-interest in public policy opinions. The present study examines the influence of both self and societal interest in order to test whether self-sacrifice underlies…
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted
We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in behavioral genetics-specifically, comparisons of the differential correlations of the attitudes of monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins-we analyze data drawn from a large sample of twins in the United States, supplemented with findings from twins in Australia. The results indicat…
Twin Studies, Molecular Genetics, Politics, and Tolerance
Beckwith and Morris raise concerns about the value of twin studies for understanding the role of genetics in complex human behavior, but virtually all of their concerns have been raised and rebutted before. When it comes to the equal environments assumption (EEA), the best approach is to test for and control possible violations of the EEA on heritability estimates rather than merely rejecting all empirical evidence because of the possibility of E…
Beyond Liberals and Conservatives to Political Genotypes and Phenotypes
In the past, most political scientists have been oblivious to the growing empirical evidence challenging environmental determinism. Professor Charney, apparently as a result of the fact that genes and the environment interact in a complex fashion, advocates that this passive unawareness be replaced by active denial. Science, however, does not advance by avoiding important relationships merely because they are complicated and, fortunately, science…
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Attitudes Over a Life Time
Recently political scientists have looked anew at the source of political preferences and find support for the heuristic that political attitudes and behaviors are influenced by endogenous factors. The present research attempts to characterize how the transmission of political orientations develops over the life course. Using longitudinal data collected on twins throughout childhood and adolescence combined with cross-sectional data from adult tw…
Genetic Foundations of Political Behavior
A fast-growing area of research is now aimed at understanding the biological bases of political behavior. This chapter reviews what is known about the genetic underpinnings of political behavior including political ideology, partisanship, political interest, knowledge, and participation. For each, it highlights what is known, what is largely speculative, and what questions need to be addressed. The findings raise new questions about our understan…
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations
This article reports results from the first twin study of adults in the United States that focuses exclusively and comprehensively on political traits. These data allow us to test whether a common set of genetic and environmental influences act upon a broad variety of values, personality traits, and political attitudes. In short, it allows us to empirically investigate whether there are a core set of predispositions that form the basis of our pol…
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