Nicholas Valentino

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Nicholas A. Valentino is an American political scientist.

Valentino earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and completed his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He began teaching at the University of Michigan in 1997. He left Michigan for an appointment as Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He returned to the University of Michigan faculty in 2009.[2]

Valentino is Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology 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 American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, 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.[3]

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  1. ^ "Nicholas Valentino". University of Michigan. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Nicholas Valentino". University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Nicholas Valentino". University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Retrieved 22 January 2019.


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