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Philip Converse Collegiate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
  • Department of Psychology

• Fields of Study

  • American Government and Politics
  • Research Methods
  • Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • Political Psychology

• About

  Professor Kinder is working on papers comparing explicit and implicit forms of prejudice and their consequences for contemporary American political life (with Tim Ryan); a short book on the misunderstanding of ideology in the study of American politics (with Nathan Kalmoe); a longer book on gender and race as alternative forms for political organization (with Nancy Burns); and a very long book on the transformation of racial politics in the United States since Myrdal.  

• Education

  • UCLA, PhD (Psychology)
  • Stanford University, BA (Psychology)

• Courses Taught

  • Graduate Seminar in Research Design (PS680)
  • Graduate Seminar in Public Opinion (PS686)
  • Undergraduate course on public opinion and American Democracy (PS486)