Karyn Amira
Associate Professor of Political Science
Education
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
B.A., Union College
Research Interests
My general research areas are political psychology/behavior and American politics. Within political psychology, I study identities such as ideology and partisanship, political perception, media effects and political cognition. Within American politics, I study elections, political parties and the effect Donald Trump has had on them in recent years.Courses Taught
- POLI 101: American Government
- POLI 205: Doing Research in Politics
- POLI 326: American Politics and Mass Media
- POLI 327: Political Parties
- POLI 336: Political Psychology
- POLI 405: Capstone Seminar
Selected Publications
Donald Trump's Effect on Who is Considered 'Conservative'. 2022. American Politics Research
"How the Media Uses the Phrase 'Identity Politics'" with Alec Abraham. 2022. PS: Political Science and Politics
Book Chapter: NeverTrump and the Fourth Estate. In The Republican Resistance: #NeverTrump Conservatives and the Future of the GOP (with April Johnson). 2020. Lexington Books
“Allies or Adversaries? Donald Trump’s Republican Support in Congress” with Jordan Ragusa, Lauren Johnson and Deon McCray. 2019. Perspectives on Politics
"In-Group Love vs. Out-Group Hate: Which Is More Important to Partisans and When?" with Jenn Wright and Daniela Goya-Tocchetto. 2019. Political Behavior
"Does Negative Information Moderate Ideological Identity? An Experimental Test". 2019. Social Science Quarterly
“A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Shaped the Democratic Primary”. 2018. Julie Wronski, Alexa Bankert, Karyn Amira, April Johnson and Lindsey Levitan. The Journal of Politics.
"Do People Contrast and Assimilate Candidate Ideology? An Experimental Test of the Projection Hypothesis" 2018. The Journal of Experimental Political Science
“The Southern Accent as a Heuristic in Campaigns and Elections” 2018. American Politics Research. Karyn Amira, Chris Cooper, Gibbs Knotts, and Claire Wofford.
Press and media
My co-authored paper called “In-group love versus out-group hate: Which is more important to partisans and when” was mentioned in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/opinion/trump-republican-base.html