Hart Research Associates, Senior Analyst (2011 to present)

PUBLICATIONS

Federico, C.M., Weber, C., Ergun, D. & Hunt, C.V. (in press).  Reconsidering the ideological structure of moral foundations. Political Psychology.

Hunt, C.V., Lavine, H., & Borgida, E. (in press). Social Cognition. In V. Ramachandran’s (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd edition.

Federico, C.M., Hunt, C.V., & Fisher, E. (in press). Status-based asymmetries in motivated group-centrism: Evidence that group status strengthens the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and ingroup bias.  Journal of Social Issues.

Federico, C.M. & Hunt, C.V. (2011). Political expertise, political interest, and the use of ideology. Political Behavior.

Hunt, C.V., Kim, A., Borgida, E., & Chaiken, S. (2010). Revisiting the self-interest vs. values debate: The role of temporal perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1155-1158.

Federico, C.M., Hunt, C.V., Ergun, E. (2009). Political expertise, social worldviews, and ideology: Translating "competitive jungles" and "dangerous worlds" into ideological reality. Social Justice Research. (Winner of the Morton Deutsch Award, International Society for Justice Research.)

Hunt, C.V., Ergun, D., & Federico, C.M. (2008). The relationship between affective states and the structure of political attitudes. Psicologia Politica, 37, 7-28. 

Borgida, E., Hunt, C., & Kim, A. (2005). On the use of gender stereotyping research in sex discrimination litigation. Journal of Law and Policy, 8(2), 613-628.


MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
 
Federico, C.M., Ergun, D., Hunt, C.V., & Kurowski, K. (under review). Need for closure, values, and ideology.


MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
 
Ergun, D., Hunt, C., & Federico, C. (in preparation). The moral foundations of political attitudes.

Hunt, C.V., Ergun, Federico, C.M. (in preparation). Political emotions and the structure of candidate trait ratings.


SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Hunt, C.V., Fisher, E., & Federico, C. (2010, January). ―"We’re the best, period: The relationship between the Need for Closure and ingroup preference." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas.

Gonzalez, R., Hunt, C.V., & Gonzales, M. (2010, January). "Psychological underpinnings of successful conflict mediation." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas.

Hunt, C. & Ergun, D. (2008, July). "Hot and Bothered: The Relationship between anxiety about the political climate and increased partisan thinking." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the International Society of Political Psychology, Paris.

Ergun, D. & Hunt, C. (2008, July).  "The interplay of emotions and moral foundations in predicting political attitudes." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the International Society of Political Psychology, Paris.

Federico, C.M., Hunt, C.V., Ergun, E. (2009, June). "Political expertise, social worldviews, and ideology: Translating "competitive jungles" and "dangerous worlds" into ideological reality. Paper presented at the Social Dominance Theory Development Conference, Harvard.

Hunt, C., Ergun, D., & Federico, C.M. (2007, July). "The relationship between affective states and the structure of political attitudes." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the International Society of Political Psychology, Portland.

Ergun, D., Hunt, C., & Federico, C.M. (2006, July). "The political consequences of emotion: Alternative perspectives."  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the International Society of Political Psychology, Barcelona.

Hunt, C., Kim, A., Borgida, E., & Chaiken, S. (2006, July) "Self-interest vs. symbolic attitudes: The role of temporal perspective." Poster presented at the International Society for Political Psychology.

Kim, A., Hunt, C., Borgida, E., & Chaiken, S. (2006, May) "The effect of temporal perspective, self-interest, and values on policy attitude formation." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.


COLLOQUIA AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
 
Federico, C., Hunt, C., Kurzer, M., Willis, M., Newman, R., Coleman Wasik, J., & Voight C. (September, 2008). Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Graduate Education. Invited Round table at the University of Minnesota’s Visioning Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Workshop Series.
 

Prof. Christopher Federico
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Phone: (612) 626-0560
Email: federico@umn.edu

Prof. Marti Hope Gonzales
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Phone: (612) 625-9035
Email: gonza001@umn.edu

Prof. Eugene Borgida
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Phone: (612) 625-3381
Email: borgi001@umn.edu

Prof. Emerita Shelly Chaiken
New York University
Phone: available upon request
Email: sc4@nyu.edu