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Professor Donald Kinder, the Philip E. Converse Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a research professor in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, will give the Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture on Friday at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in Vancouver.

Kinder received the triennial APSA award for deep and enduring contributions in the fields of political psychology, public opinion, voting behavior, media and politics, and racial politics. 

APSA cited his work for “setting the standard for theoretically rigorous, politically relevant research in American political behavior.”

Kinder is especially known for his methodological contributions, as an early pioneer in the use of experimental methods in political psychology with works such as News that Matters (Iyengar and Kinder 1987) and Experimental Foundations of Political Science (Kinder and Palfrey 1993) that helped build the case for experimental research in the field. News that Matters also applied a framework for investigating media effects (priming, agenda-setting, and framing) that has become a standard in the field. 

Kinder has also been an influential contributor to the studies of intergroup relations, the role of racial resentment in policy opinions and candidate evaluations, on belief systems, economic voting, and political person perception. 

Kinder is a past Co-Principal Investigator on the American National Election Studies (ANES).

The Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture, “Paying for Slavery,” will be delivered in Vancouver Friday, Sept. 12 at 2 p.m. Pacific, or 5 Eastern Time. 

The award lecture will later be published in PS: Political Science & Politics.