Frank Gonzalez

Interests

Teaching

Race/minority groups and politics, inequality and politics, political psychology, research methods (including statistical analysis, research methods, and experimental design), American politics

Research

Race and politics, racial prejudice, inequality, social identity, political psychology, political behavior, political ideology, biology and politics

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• PystlikZillig, L. M., Hutchens, M. J., Muhlberger, P., Gonzalez, F. J., & Tomkins, A. J. (2018). Deliberative Public Engagement with Science: An Empirical Investigation. Springer International Publishing, Springerbriefs in Psychology Series.
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  This book is one of several products of my work as a graduate research assistant at the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center.

Chapters

• Gonzalez, F., Wilson, D., & Davis, D. (2023).

  Campaigning on ‘Political Correctness’: Revisiting the 2016 Election of Donald Trump 

  . In Political Communication, Culture, and Society(pp 67-90). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Theiss-Morse, E., Gonzalez, F., & O'Toole, A. (2019). Hierarchy, American Identity, and Support for Anti-Poverty Efforts. In Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Gonzalez, F. J., Smith, K. B., & Hibbing, J. R. (2018). No Longer Beyond Our Scope”: The Biological and Nonconscious Underpinnings of Political Attitudes. In New Directions in Public Opinion (3rd Edition). New York, NY: Routledge.
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  We are updating our chapter in this edited volume for the 3rd edition, which will be published during AY2018-2019.
• Gonzalez, F. J., Smith, K. B., & Hibbing, J. R. (2016). No Longer Beyond Our Scope”: The Biological and Non-Conscious Underpinnings of Political Attitudes.. In New Directions in Public Opinion (2nd Edition)(pp 186-204). New York, NY: Routledge.

Journals/Publications

• Gonzalez, F. J. (2020). Conformity: The Power of Social Influences. Political Science Quarterly, 135(3), 539-541. doi:10.1002/polq.13080
• Haas, I. J., Baker, M. N., & Gonzalez, F. J. (2017). Who Can Deviate from the Party Line? Political Ideology Moderates Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions in Insula and Anterior Cingulate Cortex. Social Justice Research, 30(4), 355–380. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-017-0295-0
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  This project was done with a faculty member at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and a graduate student at the University of California - Merced, but was not finished and published until my affiliation had changed to the University of Arizona.
• Peterson, J. C., Gonzalez, F. J., & Schneider, S. (2017). The Effects of Disease Salience and Xenophobia on Support for Humanitarian Aid. Politics and the Life Sciences. Politics and the Life Sciences, 36(2), 17-36. doi:10.1017/pls.2017.24
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  This project was done with two fellow graduate students at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, but was not finished and published until my affiliation had changed to the University of Arizona.
• Mills, M., Gonzalez, F. J., Giuseffi, K., Sievert, B., Hibbing, J. R., Smith, K. B., & Dodd, M. (2016). Political Conservatism Predicts Asymmetries in Emotional Scene Memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 306, 84-90. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2016.03.025
• Deppe, K. D., Gonzalez, F. J., Neiman, J. L., Jacobs, C., Pahlke, J., Smith, K. B., & Hibbing, J. R. (2015). Reflective Liberals and Intuitive Conservatives: A Look at the Cognitive Reflection Test and Ideology. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(4), 314-331.
• Neiman, J. L., Gonzalez, F. J., Wilkinson, K., Smith, K. B., & Hibbing, J. R. (2016). Speaking Different Languages or Reading from the Same Script? Value-Based Word Usage of Democratic and Republican Politicians. Political Communication, 33(2), 212-240. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2014.969465
• Wals, S. C., Theiss-Morse, E., Gonzalez, F. J., & Gosda, T. (2015). Love Thy Neighbor? Perceptions of Foreigners and Support for Transnational Policies. Political Research Quarterly, 68(3), 537-551. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912915594253

Reviews

• Gonzalez, F. (2020. Review of: Conformity: The Power of Social Influences by Cass R. Sunstein.

Others

• Gonzalez, F. J., & Theiss-Morse, E. (2018, April). National Identity: A Catalyst for Unity or a Tool for Oppression?. Working Paper.