How the Behavioral Immune System Influences Attitudes Toward Immigration
In political rhetoric, individuals from unfamiliar and marginalized groups have often been compared both to vectors of disease and to vermin.
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Kevin Arceneaux
Kevin Arceneaux is a professor of political science, faculty affiliate with the Institute for Public Affairs, and director of the Behavioral Foundations Lab at Temple University. He studies how people make political decisions, paying particular attention to the effects of psychological biases. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and received a Ph.D. in political science from Rice University in 2003. His most recent book is Changing Minds or Changing Channels: Partisan News in an Age of Choice (with Martin Johnson).