Research

My Interests

Belief Systems, Ideology, Attitude Moralization, Individual Differences, Political Polarization, Survey Research, Observational Causal Inference, Computational Social Science

Publications

Cassario, A.L., Vallabha, S., Thompson, J.L., Carrillo, A., Solanki, P., Gnall, S.A., Rice, S., Wetherell, G., & Brandt, M.J. (2024) Registered report: Cognitive ability but not cognitive reflection predicts political animosity and favouritism. British journal of social psychology, (in press) Paper Supplemental Materials

Cassario, A.L., & Brandt, M.J. (2024). Testing theories of threat, individual difference, and ideology: Little evidence of personality based individual differences in ideological responses to threat. Social psychological and personality science, (in press) Paper Supplemental Materials

Cassario, A.L. (2023). Perceived vulnerability to infectious disease and percieved harmfulness are as predictive of citizen response to COVID-19 as partisanship. Politics and the life sciences, 42(2), 277-290. Paper Supplemental Materials

Brandt, M.J., & Cassario, A.L. (2023) Distinguishing Between Worldview Conflict and Shared Alliances: Commentary on Pinsof, Sears, and Haselton. Psychological inquiry, 34 (3), 168-174. Paper

Cox, K. S., Hanek, K. J., & Cassario, A. L. (2019). Redemption in a single low point story longitu- dinally predicts well-being: The incremental validity of life story elements. Journal of personality, 87(5), 1009-1024.

Accepted Stage 1 Registered Reports

Wetherell, G., Thompson J.T., Brandt, M.J., Cassario, A.L., Rice, S., Solanki, P., Carrillo, A. & Vallabha S. Do mismatches between individual and target group personality predict prejudice? Collabra: Psychology.

Thompson, J.L., Cassario, A.L., Rice, S., Gnall, S.A., Carrillo, A., Solanki, P., Vallabha S., Brandt, M.J., & Wetherell G., Registered report: stress testing predictive models of ideological prejudice. PLOS one.

Revise and Resubmit

Rice, S., Cassario A.L., Thompson J.L., Gnall S.A., Carrillo, A., Vallabha S., Solanki P., Brandt M.J., Wetherell G., Registered report: Exploring the relationship between nationalism, patriotism, and prejudice. Comprehensive results in social psychology.

Under Review

Cassario, A.L., & Brandt, M.J. Testing Predictions About Individual Level Belief System Structure Using the Conceptual Similarity Task.Paper Supplemental Materials

Working Projects

Cassario, A.L., & Brandt, M.J., Does personality moderate the effect of threat on political conservatism? Experimental evidence says no.

Cassario, A.L., & Brandt, M.J., Exploring the effects of downward mobility on attitudes, behaviors, and life outcomes.

Cassario, A.L., Mulwa, K., & Brandt, M.J., Does a competitive presidential campaign increase interest in, desire to consume, and desire to share misinformation?

Cassario, A.L., Mulwa, K., & Brandt, M.J., Asymmetrical perceptions? Do Co and Out-partisans view Republicans as more likely to believe and be interested in misinformation and does this drive greater sharing of misinformation on the right?