Leonie Huddy

About

Leonie Huddy is a Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holds the title of SUNY Distinguished Professor. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on political behavior in the United States and other contexts through the lens of intergroup relations, with particular attention to gender, race, and ethnic relations. Recently, her work has extended to studying partisan identities and political polarization in the United States and Western Europe. Huddy has made significant contributions to the fields of social and political identities, emotions, reactions to terrorism, gender and politics, and race relations. She has served as co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, was co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2005 to 2010, and is a past-president of the International Society of Political Psychology. She also serves on the American National Election Studies Board of Overseers and on numerous editorial boards in political science. Her work includes examining how nationalism and patriotism influence public opinion, as well as exploring the dynamics of social welfare support, expressive versus instrumental partisanship, and the impact of media and societal factors on national identity.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Political economy
• Social psychology
• Psychology
• Chemistry
• International trade
• Economics
• Aesthetics

Selected publications

• 9. On the Distinct Political Effects of Anxiety and Anger

  2019-12-31 · 180 citations

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• Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?

  Political Psychology · 2020 · 116 citations

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  Hostility between rival political partisans, referred to as affective polarization, has increased in the United States over the last several decades generating considerable interest in its reduction. The current study examines two distinct sets of factors that potentially reduce affective polarization, drawn respectively from a group‐based and a policy‐based model of its origins. Specifically, we contrast the degree to which warm social relations and policy compromise reduce affective polarizati…

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• Nationalism, Patriotism, and Support for the European Union

  Political Psychology · 2021 · 73 citations

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  Does attachment to a nation enhance or dampen support for the European Union (EU)? Using the 2003 and 2013 ISSP national‐identity modules, we isolate and provide multi‐item measures of two distinct types of national attachment—nationalism and patriotism. We find that they are positively related yet have divergent effects. We validate the measures showing that nationalism increases, and patriotism decreases, support for nationalistic policies (anti‐immigration and protectionism) as expected. We t…

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• The Interplay of Empathy and Individualism in Support for Social Welfare Policies

  Political Psychology · 2019-09-26 · 61 citations

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  Public support for government welfare programs is grounded in two potentially conflicting factors: a belief in individualism which undermines support for welfare assistance and the capacity for empathy which potentially enhances support. However, empathy is an expensive psychological commodity subject to pervasive up‐ and down‐regulation. This article examines the degree to which a belief in individualism affects the expression of compassionate support for a person in need among those with the c…

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• National Identity, Pride, and Chauvinism—their Origins and Consequences for Globalization Attitudes

  2019-12-13 · 45 citations

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  Abstract Theorists of liberal nationalism argue that national identities serve as essential glue binding a nation. However, national identities can create tensions among subgroups of co-nationals and breed suspicion of outsiders. This chapter analyses the psychology of national attachments to better understand the effects of national identity, identifying three types of national attachment: chauvinism, pride, and identity. The chapter then investigates their differing origins and consequences, f…

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Frequent coauthors

• Stanley Feldman

  30 shared

• Donald P. Green

  Columbia University

  12 shared

• Der Straeen

  Lynn University

  12 shared

• Betsy Paluck

  Temple College

  12 shared

• Kevin Arceneaux

  University of Amsterdam

  12 shared

• Daniel Rubenson

  Cornell University

  10 shared

• Tereza Capelos

  University of Southampton

  9 shared

• Erin Cassese

  University of Delaware

  8 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Social Psychology

  University of California, Los Angeles

Awards & honors

• Past-president of the International Society of Political Psy…

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