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Nicholas A. Valentino is an American political scientist. He currently serves as a principal investigator of the
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(ANES). Valentino earned a bachelor's degree from
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and completed his doctorate at the
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
. He began teaching at the
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in 1997. He left Michigan for an appointment as Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs at the
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in 2007. He returned to the University of Michigan faculty in 2009. Valentino is the Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. He served as president of the
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from 2019–2020. Valentino specializes in political psychological approaches to understanding public opinion formation, socialization, information seeking and electoral participation. His work employs experimental methods, surveys, and content analyses of political communication. The research has focused on the intersecting roles of racial attitudes and emotional dynamics, and has been published in the ''
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'', the ''
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'', and '' Public Opinion Quarterly''. Valentino is currently exploring the changing nature of racial rhetoric in America and around the world, and the ways empathy for outgroups can blunt dangerous overreactions to threats from globalization and multiculturalism. With Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne, Valentino is a co-author of ''Beyond Rationality: Behavioral Political Science in the 21st Century'' (Cambridge University Press 2021). He is the co-author of ''Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy'' with Cigdem V. Sirin, and José D. Villalobos (Cambridge University Press 2021). ''Seeing Us in Them'' examines outgroup empathy as a powerful predisposition in politics that pushes individuals to see past social divisions and work together in complex, multicultural societies. It also reveals racial/ethnic intergroup differences in this predisposition, rooted in early patterns of socialization and collective memory. The book won the APSA Best Book Award (2022), the David Sears Best Book in Political Psychology (2022), the Robert Lane Award (2022), and the Best Book in Experimental Political Science Award (APSA, 2022). David O. Sears and
Shanto Iyengar Shanto Iyengar is an American political scientist and professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford, the director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab, a ...
were Valentino's dissertation co-chairs at UCLA. Valentino has served as chair or co-chair on the dissertation committees of: Hilary Izatt, Sara Morell, Anil Menon, Kirill Zhirkov, Marzia Oceno, James Newburg, Erin Cikanek, Princess Williams, Julia Kamin, Fabian Neuner, Timothy Ryan, Ismail White, Eric Groenendyk, Antoine Banks, Yanna Krupnikov, Patrick O'Mahen; Katie Brown, Debra Melican, Krysha Gregorowicz, Rossie Hutchinson, Christine Brittle, Thomas Buhr, and Matthew Vandenbroek.


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