Ted Brader
Research Professor
BIO
Professor Brader currently serves as Associate Principal Investigator for Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. He has formerly served as Principal Investigator for the American National Election Studies. His research examines how public opinion and political behavior are shaped by emotions, partisanship, social identities, group attitudes, and media messaging; he also studies survey and experimental methods. Current projects focus on debates over immigration, claims of religious freedom, the perspectives of rural Americans, partisan stereotyping, and the triggers of public emotions.
- Tyler, Matthew, Hillygus, D. Sunshine, DeBell, Matthew, Ted Brader, Iyengar, Shanto, Nicholas A Valentino. 2025. Why Are Surveys Struggling to Estimate Vote Shares?. American Journal of Political Science.
- Shana Kushner, Ted Brader. 2023. Emotion and Political Psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology :191-247.
- Brader, Ted, Tucker, Joshua A. 2018. Unreflective Partisans? Policy Information and Evaluation in the Development of Partisanship. Political Psychology 39(S1):137-157.
- Brader, Ted, Ryan, Timothy J. 2017. Gaffe Appeal A Field Experiment on Partisan Selective Exposure to Election Messages. Political Science Research and Methods 5(4):667-687.
- Brader, Ted, Tucker, Joshua A, Therriault, Andrew . 2014. Cross Pressure Scores: An Individual-Level Measure of Cumulative Partisan Pressures Arising from Social Group Memberships. Political Behavior 36(1):23-51.
- Brader, Ted, Tucker, Joshua A, Duell, Dominik . 2013. Which Parties Can Lead Opinion? Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cue Taking in Multiparty Democracies. Comparative Political Studies 46(11):1485-1517.
- Valentino, Nicholas A, Brader, Ted, Jardina, Ashley E. 2013. Immigration Opposition Among US Whites: General Ethnocentrism or Media Priming of Attitudes About Latinos?. Political Psychology 34(2):149-166.
- Brader, Ted, Tucker, Joshua A. 2012. Following the Party's Lead Party Cues, Policy Opinion, and the Power of Partisanship in Three Multiparty Systems. Comparative Politics 44(4):403-420.
- Valentino, Nicholas A, Brader, Ted. 2011. The Sword's Other Edge Perceptions of Discrimination and Racial Policy Opinion After Obama. Public Opinion Quarterly 75(2):201-226.
- Brader, Ted. 2011. The Political Relevance of Emotions: "Reassessing" Revisited. Political Psychology 32(2):337-346.
