About the PIs

The PIs and Associate PIs provide extraordinary disciplinary and substantive breadth. The PIs, for example, are accomplished scholars who integrate experiments of several varieties into their research agendas. Both have also overseen large-scale data collection efforts.

Diana Mutz conducts research involving mass media, political behavior and public opinion.

• Her work has won several prestigious awards, including the 1999 APSA Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology for Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes.
• She co-edited the book Political Persuasion and Attitude Change.
• In this and other work, she combines survey methods, quasi-experimental designs and both traditional laboratory and general population experiments.
• She also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Political Behavior.

• His work integrates models, surveys, and experiments and clarifies how institutions affect how people with limited information make critical voting, legislative and bureaucratic decisions.
• He is co-author of The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? and Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Reacts to Direct Democracy and co-editor of Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice and the Bounds of Rationality.
• In 1996, he won the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association's Voting and Election Section. In 1998, he won the Initiatives in Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences.