Curriculum Vitae
Professional Appointment:
University of Memphis
Dunavant Professor 2022-Present
Professor of Political Science 2021-2022
Associate Professor of Political Science 2015-2021
Assistant Professor of Political Science 2009-2015
Education:
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in Political Science 2009.
Dissertation: The Motivated Partisan: A Dual Motivations Theory of Partisan Change and Stability
Professors (Co-Chair) Ted Brader, (Co-Chair) Nicholas Valentino, Vincent Hutchings, Donald Kinder, Norbert Schwarz
Best Dissertation Award, APSA Political Psychology Section
Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan
Fields of Study: American Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Race and Ethnic Politics, Research Methods
University of Michigan
B.A. Department of Political Science & Department of Communication Studies with Highest Honors 2001
Honors Thesis: Issue Advocacy Advertising and its Effects on Modern Political Campaigns
Research:
Book
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2013). Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind: How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Party Identification and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Robert E. Lane Book Award (Honorable Mention), APSA Political Psychology Section
Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 129(3) and PsycCRITIQUES 59(26).
Articles
Groenendyk, Eric, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan, and Elizabeth Connors. (2023). "Selecting Out of Politics: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation." Conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review.
Groenendyk, Eric, Erik Kimbrough and Mark Pickup. (2023). "How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." American Journal of Political Science 67 (3): 623-638.
Groenendyk, Eric and Yanna Krupnikov. (2021). “What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal-Dependent Political Evaluation.” American Journal of Political Science 65(1): 180-196.
Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section
Groenendyk, Eric, Michael Sances, Kirill Zhirkov. (2020). “Intraparty Polarization in American Politics.” Journal of Politics, 82(4): 1616 1620.
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2019) “Of Two Minds, But One Heart: A Good “Gut” Feeling Moderates the Effect of Ambivalence on Attitude Formation and Turnout.” American Journal of Political Science 63(2): 368-384.
Groenendyk, Eric. (2019) "The Conditional Implications of Partisan Loyalty." Social Research 86(3).
Groenendyk, Eric. (2018) "Competing Motives in a Polarized Electorate: Political Responsiveness, Identity Defensiveness, and the Rise of Partisan Antipathy. Political Psychology 39(S1): 159-171.
Groenendyk, Eric. (2016) “The Anxious and Ambivalent Partisan: The Effect of Incidental Anxiety on Partisan Motivated Recall and Ambivalent.” Public Opinion Quarterly 80(2): 460-479.
Groenendyk, Eric W. and Antoine J. Banks. (2014). “Emotional Rescue: How Emotions Help Partisans Overcome Collective Action Problems.” Political Psychology (35)3: 359-378.
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2012). “Justifying Party Identification: A Case of Identifying with the Lesser of Two Evils.” Political Behavior 34(3): 453-475.
Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section
Valentino, Nicholas A., Ted Brader, Eric W. Groenendyk, Krysha Gregorowicz, and Vincent Hutchings. (2011). “Election Night’s Alright For Fighting: The Role of Emotions in Political Participation.” Journal of Politics 73(1): 156-170.
Best Paper Award, APSA Political Psychology Section
Groenendyk, Eric. (2011). “Current Emotion Research in Political Science: How Emotions Help Democracy Overcome its Collective Action Problem.” Emotion Review 3(4): 455-463.
Valentino, Nicholas A., Krysha Gregorowicz, and Eric W. Groenendyk. (2009). “Efficacy, Emotions, and the Habit of Participation.” Political Behavior 31(3): 307-330.
Groenendyk, Eric W. and Nicholas A. Valentino. (2002). “Of Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Effects of Exposure to Issue Versus Candidate Advertising on Persuasion, Information Retention, and Issue Salience." Communication Research 29(3): 295-319.
Book Chapters
Groenendyk, Eric, Erik Kimbrough, and Mark Pickup. "Social Norms and Political Psychology" Handbook of Innovation in Political Psychology, Ethan Busby, Chris Karpowitz, and Cara Wong (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Groenendyk, Eric. (2022). "Motivated Reasoning in Politics" Handbook of Politics and Public Opinion, Thomas Rudolph (Ed.) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Books in Progress
Groenendyk, Eric, Yanna Krupnikov, and John Barry Ryan. The Politics Effect: How the Expectation of Conflict Fuels Polarization.
Groenendyk, Eric, Erik Kimbrough, and Mark Pickup. The Individual and the Group: How Social Identity Norms Shape Politics.
Articles in Progress
Groenendyk, Eric and Yanna Krupnikov. "Selecting in and out of Politics: How Self-Selection Turns Polarization into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy," American Political Science Review, Invited to Revise and Resubmit.
Groenendyk, Eric and Kirill Zhirkov. " The Other Side of Sorting: Social Fractionalization of American Parties Causes Negative Partisanship."
Groenendyk, Eric and Antoine Banks. "What Counts as Racism? How Conceptual Disagreement Fuels Social and Political Division."
Banks, Antoine, Eric Groenendyk, and Alauna Safarpour. "How Party Cues Shape Americans' Understanding of Institutional Racism."
Krupnikov, Yanna and Eric Groenendyk. “What Motivates Interest in Politics?”
Book Reviews
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2014). Review of “Ideology in America.” By Christopher Ellis and James A. Stimson. Perspectives on Politics 12(3): 733-735.
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2013). Review of “The Ambivalent Partisan.” By Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. Political Communication 30(4): 661-663.
Groenendyk, Eric W. (2012). Review of “Population-Based Survey Experiments.” By Diana Mutz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Public Opinion Quarterly 76(4): 815-818.
Invited Presentations
University of Utah, January 2020
University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies, April 2017
Stony Brook University, February 2017
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, November 2013
Smith and Nephew, June 2013
Memphis Downtown Rotary Club, March 2012
Vanderbilt University, Public Opinion Speaker Series, October 2011
University of Memphis, Cognitive Science Seminar in Emotion Research, April 2011
Selected Conference Presentations
Groenendyk, Eric, Mark Pickup, and Erik Kimbrough. "How Norms Shape the Nature and Origins of Mass Belief Systems."— Presented at the 2019 International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric and Antoine Banks. "What is Racist? Americans' Beliefs About What Does and Does Not Constitute Racism."— Presented at the 2018 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Goodwin, Tracy, Eric Groenendyk, and Yanna Krupnikov “The Politics of ‘Political Correctness’: Racism Accusations and Motivated Reasoning in the Age of Polarization.” — Presented at the 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Goodwin, Tracy, Eric Groenendyk, and Yanna Krupnikov. “Does Biased Processing of Explicit Racial Cues Lead to Political Polarization?”—Presented at the 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric and Yanna Krupnikov “What Motivates Reasoning with an Open Mind?”—Presented at the 2017 Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference
Groenendyk, Eric and Anna Talley. “The Social Roots of Public Action: The Effect of Homophily on Mobilization of Women.”— Presented at the 2016 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric W. “Does Ideology Divide Us? The Righteous Mind and the Neglected Counterfactual.”—Presented at the 2016 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric W. and Yanna Krupnikov. “Goal-Motivated Reasoning: Re-examining the Apparent Disconnect between Rational Choice and Motivated Reasoning Theories of Public Opinion.”— Presented at the 2015 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric “Ideology, Interests, and Political Reasoning: An Investigation into the Neglected Counterfactual in Polarization Research.”— Presented at the 2015 International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric W. and Yanna Krupnikov. “Goal-Motivated Reasoning: Re-examining the Apparent Disconnect between Rational Choice and Motivated Reasoning Theories of Public Opinion.”— Presented at the 2015 International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference.
Groenendyk, Eric W. and Yanna Krupnikov. “Goal-Motivated Reasoning: Re-examining the Apparent Disconnect between Rational Choice and Motivated Reasoning Theories of Public Opinion.”—Presented at the 2015 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships:
Best Paper Award in Political Psychology Division for “What Motivates Reasoning? A Goal-Oriented Theory of Political Evaluation.” Presented at the 2015 American Political Science Association Conference (with Yanna Krupnikov)
Robert E. Lane Book Award (Honorable Mention), Political Psychology Section of APSA 2014
Research Grant, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
APSA Best Dissertation in Political Psychology Award 2010
Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan 2010
Faculty Research Grant, University of Memphis 2010
Connelly Fellowship 2009
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 2007-2008
Best Paper Award in Political Psychology Division for “Justifying Party Identification: A Case of Identifying with the Lesser of Two Evils.” Presented at the 2009 American Political Science Association Conference
Best Paper Award in Political Psychology Division for “Election Night’s Alright For Fighting: The Participatory Impact of Negative Emotions.” Presented at the 2006 American Political Science Association Conference (with Nicholas Valentino, Vincent Hutchings, Krysha Gregorowicz, and Ted Brader)
Gerald R. Ford Fellowship 2007-2008
Gerald R. Ford Fellowship 2006-2007
Summer Research Collaboration Grant 2006 (with Ted Brader and Nicholas Valentino)
Howard R. Marsh Center for the Study of Journalistic Performance Research Grant 2005
Honorable Mention 2004 National Science Foundation Fellowship Competition
Teaching Experience:
Graduate Level
Political Science 7100, Scope and Methods of Political Science, University of Memphis
Political Science 7101, Political Statistics, University of Memphis
Political Science 7201, Public Opinion & Political Behavior Seminar, University of Memphis
Undergraduate Level
Political Science 4101, Political Statistics, University of Memphis
Political Science 3221, Public Opinion, University of Memphis
Political Science 3216, Political Parties and Elections, University of Memphis
Political Science 1100, American Government, University of Memphis
Political Science 1100, Honors American Government, University of Memphis
Independent studies in political psychology, political parties, public opinion
Teaching Assistant ICPSR Summer Program: Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity (with Phillip Bowman), Summer 2007
Graduate Student Instructor: Political Science 300, University of Michigan—Contemporary Issues in Politics (with Greg Markus), Winter 2005 (Nominated for John Kingdon Department Teaching Award)
Graduate Student Instructor: Political Science 111, University of Michigan—Introduction to American Politics (with Hanes Walton), Fall 2003 (Nominated for John Kingdon Department Teaching Award)
Service:
Professional Service
Governing Council, International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 2020
Section Chair, Campaigns and Elections, 2018 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Section Chair, Political Psychology, 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Section Chair, Political Parties, 2017 Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Section Chair, Public Opinion, 2014 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Manuscript Reviewer for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, and American Politics Research
Award committee for best dissertation in political psychology, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association, 2015
Award committee for best paper delivered in political psychology, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association, 2010.
Dissertation Committee Member: Meri Long (Vanderbilt University), Tracy Goodwin (Stony Brook University)
Departmental and University Service
Graduate Studies Coordinator—Department of Political Science, University of Memphis 2016-present
Graduate Recruitment Coordinator—Department of Political Science, University of Memphis 2010-2016
Graduate Council, College of Arts and Science, 2016-Present
Master’s Thesis Committee Chair: Courtney Meyers, Erin Westrich, Timothy Dukeman, Emily Cummings, Anna Talley, Brooke Shannon, Megan Beckwith
Master’s Thesis Committee Member: Lauren Lewis, Suzanne Schmidle, Kristin Strickland Andris (Journalism), Drew Wagstaff, Mai Orsino, Emily Fulmer
Honors Thesis Advisor: Erica Peoples, Aeona Seymour
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, Faculty Advisory Board Member 2016-2017
Graduate Assessment Committee, Chair 2013
Accelerated BA/MA Program Committee
Selection committee, Professional Development Assignments, College of Arts and Sciences
Selection committee, Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Faculty Research, and Creative Achievement in Social Sciences, Business, and Law 2012, 2013
Discussion leader, Great Conversations 2012, 2015
American Politics Search Committee, 2015, 2018
Comparative Politics Search Committee, 2016
International Studies Director Search Committee, 2015
Instructor Search Committee, Political Science 2012, 2014
Judge, Undergraduate Research Fair 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015