Research

My Interests

Political Ideology, Ideological Development, Attitude Moralization, Political Polarization, Survey Research, Observational Causal Inference

Publications

Cox., Keith S., Katherine J. Hanek, and Abigail L. Cassario. “Redemption in a Single Low Point Story Longitudinally Predicts Well-Being: The Incremental Validity of Life Story Elements.” Journal of Personality 87 (5) (2019) 1009-1024.

Cassario, Abigail L., Keith S. Cox, and Joshua Wilt. “Investigating the Cross Racial Measurement (In?) Variance of the Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale” Journal of Psychological Inquiry (2020).

Brandt, Mark J., and Abigail L. Cassario. “Distinguishing Between Worldview Conflict and Shared Alliances: Commentary on Pinsof, Sears, and Haselton.” Psychological Inquiry (Forthcoming). Paper

Cassario, Abigail L., “Perceived Vulnerability to Infectious Disease and Perceived Harmfulness Are as Predictive of Citizen Response to COVID-19 as Partisanship.” Politics and the Life Sciences (forthcoming). Paper Supplemental Materials

Revise and Resubmit

Cassario, Abigail L., Jordan L. Thompson, Alejandro Carillo, Prachi Solanki, Shree Vallabha, Samantha A. Gnall, Sada Rice, Geoffrey Wetherell, and Mark J., Brandt, “Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Reflection, and Attitudes Towards Ideological Groups.” British Journal of Social Psychology.

Sada Rice, Abigail L. Cassario, Prachi Solanki, Samantha A. Gnall, Jordan L. Thompson, Alejandro Carillo, Shree Vallabha, Mark J. Brandt, and Geoffrey Wetherell. “(National) Pride Predicts Prejudice Towards a Variety of Social Groups” Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Geoffrey A. Wetherell, Jordan L. Thompson, Mark J. Brandt, Abigail L. Cassario, Sada Rice, Prachi Solanki, and Shree Vallabha, “Do Mismatches Between Individual and Target Group Personality Predict Prejudice?” Collabra Psychology.

Under Review

Jordan L. Thompson, Sada Rice, Samantha A. Gnall, Abigail L. Cassario, Alejandro Carillo, Prachi Solanki, Shree Vallabha, Mark J. Brandt, and Geoffrey Wetherell. “Registered Report: Stress Testing Predictive Models of Ideological Prejudice.” Plos One.

Working Projects

Edgar Cook, and Abigail L. Cassario. “Belief in a Just World, Social Dominance Orientation and Racial Resentment.”

Cassario, Abigail L., and Mark J. Brandt. “Does Threat Condition the Relationship Between Personality and Political Ideology?”

Cassario, Abigail L., and Mark J. Brandt. “The Role of Socio-Political Context in Ideological Development: Revisiting the Critical Years Hypothesis.”

Cassario, Abigail L., and Mark J. Brandt. “What is Central to Within Subjects’ Political Belief Systems.”

Cassario, Abigail L., and Mark J. Brandt. “Can Conceptualizing Belief Systems as Networks Help Us Understand the Process of Attitude Moralization?”

Finkel, Eli J., Catherine Garton, Alexander Landry, Ben Annandappa, and Abigail L. Cassario. “A Meta-Analysis of Partisan Misperceptions.”

Vallabha, Shree, Alejandro Carillo, Abigail L. Cassario, Jordan L. Thompson, Sada Rice, Samantha A. Gnall, Prachi Solanki, Geoffrey Wetherell, and Mark J. Brandt, “Social Psychological Predictors of Democratic Backsliding in the USA.”