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A core pillar of my research agenda is to identify how cognitive and emotional factors affect the dynamics of public opinion and behavior in political conflict. Researchers have long recognized that psychology `matters' for citizen and elite behavior in international conflict, but have struggled to causally isolate psychological effects from other concomitant processes or investigate the interaction of individual psychology with overarching attributes of the strategic environment, such as information. My research tackles both of these challenges head on, examining the interaction of psychological and strategic processes in conflict settings. My current work in this area focuses primarily on how anger shapes cycles of political violence, for both the public and political elites.

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