Research

Publications

Here is a sample of the emerging literature on Neuropolitics:

Fisher M, Franklin DL, Post JM. Executive dysfunction, brain aging, and political leadership. Politics Life Sci. 2014;33:93-102. DOI:10.2990/33_2_93. PMID:25901887. 

Fisher M, Phoenix D, Powell S, Mousa M, Rosenberg S, Greenia D, Corrada MM,  Kawas C, Paganini-Hill A. Cognition and Political Ideology in Aging. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021;69:762-766. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16935. PMID:33128770.

Groenendyk E. The Anxious and Ambivalent Partisan: The Effect of Incidental Anxiety on Partisan Motivated Recall and Ambivalence. Public Opin Q. 2016;80:460-479. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfv083. PMID:27274573. 

Johnson AA, Powell S. Disability and Election Administration in the United States: Barriers and Improvements. Policy Studies. 2019;41: 249-270. DOI:10.1080/01442872.2019.1694654. PMID: 213495947.

Krastev S, McGuire JT, McNeney D, Kable JW, Stolle D, Gidengil E, Fellows LK. Do Political and Economic Choices Rely on Common Neural Substrates? A Systematic  Review of the Emerging Neuropolitics Literature. Front Psychol. 2016;7:264. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00264. PMID:26941703. 

Lasswell HD. What psychiatrists and political scientists can learn from one another. 1938. Psychiatry. 2001;64:184-91. DOI:10.1521/psyc.64.3.184.18460. PMID:11712527. 

Marcus GE. Evaluating the Status of Theories of Emotion in Political Science and Psychology. Frontiers Political Science. 2022;1-20. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2022.1080884

Miller P, Powell S. Overcoming Voting Obstacles: Convenience Voting by People with Disabilities. American Politics Research. 2016;44:28-55. DOI:10.1177/1532673X15586618. PMID:156027605. 

Powell S, Johnson AA. Patterns and Mechanisms of Political Participation Among People with Disabilities. Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law. 2019;44:381-422. DOI:10.1215/03616878-7367000.

Warraich HJ, Kumar P, Nasir K, Maddox K, Wadhera RK. Political environment and mortality rates in the United States, 2001-10: population-based cross-sectional analysis. BMJ. 2022; 377: 1-9. DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069308.

Yang SE, Wilson JD, Lu ZL, Cranmer S. Functional Connectivity Signatures of Political Ideology. Oxford University Press. PNAS Nexus. 2022; 1-12. DOI:10.1093/psnasnexus/pgac066.