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David O. Sears

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#664

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#858

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#418

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Social Psychology

#72

World Rank

#81

Historical Rank

#52

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PhD Psychology Princeton University
Bachelors Psychology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, David O’Keefe Sears is an American psychologist who specializes in political psychology. He is a distinguished professor of psychology and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1961. He served as dean of social sciences at UCLA between 1983 and 1992. Best known for his theory of symbolic racism, Sears has published many articles and books about the political and psychological origins of race relations in America, as well as on political socialization and life cycle effects on attitudes, the role of self-interest in attitudes, and multiculturalism. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

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College sophomores in the laboratory: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology's view of human nature. (1986) (1995)
Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism Versus Racial Threats to the Good Life (1981) (1842)
Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting (1980) (744)
The Symbolic Racism 2000 Scale (2002) (687)
The Oxford handbook of political psychology (2013) (639)
SELECTIVE EXPOSURE TO INFORMATION: A CRITICAL REVIEW (1967) (614)
The Role of Self-Interest in Social and Political Attitudes (1991) (570)
The origins of symbolic racism. (2003) (534)
Whites' Opposition to “Busing”: Self-interest or Symbolic Politics? (1979) (479)
Politics Matters: Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization (1997) (453)
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions (1999) (444)
Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (1982) (438)
The person-positivity bias. (1983) (438)
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America (2002) (425)
Is it really racism ? The origins of white Americans' opposition to race-targeted policies : Examinations of core concepts and processes (1997) (385)
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South (2005) (354)
Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (2010) (326)
Over Thirty Years Later: A Contemporary Look at Symbolic Racism * * Previous versions of this chapte (2005) (298)
Symbolic politics: A socio-psychological theory. (1993) (288)
Examinations of Core Concepts and Processes Is It Really Racism?: The Origins of White American Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies (1997) (275)
The Conceptualization and Measurement of Symbolic Racism (2005) (250)
Childhood and Adult Political Development (2013) (248)
Social psychology, 8th ed. (1994) (242)
White reactions to black candidates : when does race matter? - eScholarship (1990) (214)
The politics of violence : the new urban Blacks and the Watts riot (1973) (182)
The limited effect of economic self-interest on the political attitudes of the mass public (1990) (177)
Whites' Opposition to Busing. On Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Group Conflict (1985) (173)
The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus (2008) (168)
Self-interest in Americans' political opinions. (1990) (164)
Warning, personal involvement, and attitude change. (1968) (154)
The Political Color Line in America: Many "Peoples of Color" or Black Exceptionalism? (2006) (154)
WARNING, DISTRACTION, AND RESISTANCE TO INFLUENCE. (1965) (139)
Inducing Apparently Self-Interested Political Preferences (1983) (137)
Multiculturalism in American Public Opinion (2001) (134)
Opposition to bilingual education : prejudice or the defense of realistic interests ? (1995) (133)
Event-Driven Political Communication and the Preadult Socialization of Partisanship (1998) (130)
Why Do White Americans Oppose Race-Targeted Policies? Clarifying the Impact of Symbolic Racism. (2009) (117)
Cognitive links between economic grievances and political responses (1981) (115)
Self-Interest and Civilians' Attitudes Toward the Vietnam War (1978) (114)
Stability and Change in Social Tolerance: A Test of the Persistence Hypothesis (1986) (103)
The Origins and Persistence of Ethnic Identity Among the "New Immigrant" Groups* (2003) (102)
Symbolic Racism and Whites’ Attitudes Towards Punitive and Preventive Crime Policies (2006) (102)
The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons For The Urban Future (1994) (93)
Citizens and Politics: The Role of Affect in Symbolic Politics (2001) (89)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2014) (81)
Childhood Origins of Tolerance for Dissent. (1971) (81)
Political cognition : the 19th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition (1986) (79)
Political System Support and Public Response to the Energy Crisis (1978) (74)
AMPing Racial Attitudes: Comparing the Power of Explicit and Implicit Racism Measures in 2008 (2013) (71)
Black Invisibility, the Press, and the Los Angeles Riot (1971) (69)
The End of the Solidly Democratic South: The Impressionable-Years Hypothesis (2011) (66)
Does everybody like a liker (1977) (66)
The Crystallization of Contemporary Racial Prejudice across the Lifespan (2009) (65)
Cultural diversity and multicultural politics: Is ethnic balkanization psychologically inevitable? (1999) (60)
7 – The Trajectory of Local Desegregation Controversies and Whites' Opposition to Busing (1984) (56)
Whites' racial policy attitudes : The role of white racism (1996) (55)
Biased Indoctrination and Selectivity of Exposure to New Information (1965) (54)
EFFECTS OF EXPECTED FAMILIARITY WITH ARGUMENTS UPON OPINION CHANGE AND SELECTIVE EXPOSURE. (1965) (53)
The Politics Of Violence (1973) (49)
Fact or artifact revisited: Survey instrument effects and pocketbook politics (1990) (49)
The “Positivity Bias” inEvaluations of Public Figures:Evidence Against Instrument Artifacts (1979) (46)
Racial Socialization, Comparison Levels, and the Watts Riot1 (1970) (40)
Measuring Identity: Balancing National and Ethnic Identities: The Psychology of E Pluribus Unum (2009) (39)
Qualified Public Support for Bilingual Education: Some Policy Implications (1990) (37)
Racism and politics in the United States. (1998) (37)
Reexamining the Effect of Racial Propositions on Latinos’ Partisanship in California (2018) (35)
THE EFFECTS OF ANTICIPATED DEBATE AND COMMITMENT ON THE POLARIZATION OF AUDIENCE OPINION (1964) (35)
Coming to Like Obnoxious People When We Must Live with Them (1977) (34)
Participation in the Los Angeles Riot (1969) (34)
The impact of self-interest on attitudes--a symbolic politics perspective on differences between survey and experimental findings: comment on Crano (1997). (1997) (31)
Ideological Bias in Political Psychology: The View from Scientific Hell (1994) (29)
Coming to like obnoxious people when we must live with them. (1977) (26)
Opinion formation and information preferences in an adversary situation (1966) (25)
Long-term psychological consequences of political events. (2002) (20)
Social anxiety, opinion structure, and opinion change. (1967) (19)
Black Attitudes toward the Political System in the Aftermath of the Watts Insurrection (1969) (19)
UCLA Recent Work Title Is It Really Racism ? The Origins of White Americans ' Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies Permalink (1997) (17)
Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work (2006) (17)
Implications of the life-span approach for research on attitudes and social cognition. (1987) (16)
The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations. By Mary R. Jackman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 441p. $38.00. (1995) (15)
COMMITMENT, INFORMATION UTILITY, AND SELECTIVE EXPOSURE, (1963) (14)
Incorporation of Latino Immigrants into the American Party System (2016) (12)
Graduate education in political psychology (1991) (11)
Bilingual Education: Symbolic Meaning and Support among Non-Hispanics. (1987) (11)
The American color line 50 years after Brown v. Board: Many "peoples of color" or Black exceptionalism? (2008) (10)
College Student-itis Redux (2008) (10)
President Obama and the Growing Polarization of Partisan Attachments by Racial Attitudes and Race (2010) (9)
Inner Conflict in the Political Psychology of Racism (2008) (8)
White Opposition to Busing in Los Angeles: Is Self Interest Rejuvenated?. (1978) (6)
Presidential Address: Reflections on the Politics of Multiculturalism in American Society (1996) (5)
Passion in politics and the science of politics (1992) (5)
Are We Reaching Undergraduates? A Survey of Course Offerings in Political Psychology' (1991) (5)
Social Psychology: Study Guide (1999) (5)
Assessment of Interracial/Interethnic Conflict in Los Angeles (2002) (4)
The ecological niche of political pscyhology (1989) (4)
Barack Obama and the Two Sides of Symoblic Racism: Explaining the Effects of Racial Resentment in the Primaries and Beyond (2009) (4)
On Separating Church and Lab (1994) (4)
Socio-Economics: Challenge to the Neoclassical Economic Paradigm (1991) (4)
When an irresistible prejudice meets immovable politics: Black legal gun ownership undermines racially resentful White Americans' gun rights advocacy. (2022) (3)
Experimental Social Psychology, Broader Contexts, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2009) (3)
Urban Rioting in Los Angeles: A Comparison of 1965 with 1992 (2019) (3)
Development of Concepts of Political Conflict and Power by 5th and 8th Graders. Final Report. (1972) (3)
PUNISHMENT AND CHOICE IN THE RAT. (1964) (3)
Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising.@@@"Blacks vs. Browns: The Struggle for the Bottom Rung."@@@The City in Crisis. (1994) (3)
Continuities and contrasts in American racial politics. (2004) (3)
The Measurement of Children's Civic Attitudes in Different Nations. By Oppenheim A. N. and Torney Judith. (New York: A Halsted Press Book, John Wiley & Sons, 1974. Pp. 84. $5.95.) (1977) (3)
Long-Term Continuities in the Politics of Race (1999) (2)
Presidential Campaigns as Occasions for Preadult Political Socialization: The Crystallization of Partisan Predispositions. (1988) (2)
Symbolic politics and self-interest in post-Affordable Care Act health Insurance coverage (2020) (2)
Political symbols and collective moral action. (2003) (2)
DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE (1962) (2)
The Ailments of the White Working Class (2018) (1)
An Ignorant and Easily Duped Electorate? (2017) (1)
Symbolic Racism 2000 Scale (2016) (1)
Effect of a social science curriculum on attitudes of freshman dental students. (1967) (1)
Mourning a President. (1967) (1)
Dissertation: “Perceptions of Social Group Influence in the United States: Sources and Consequences for Political Legitimacy and Participation.” Jack Citrin (Chair), (2014) (0)
The Two Faces of Psychology and the Law. (1983) (0)
Changing White Attitudes Toward Black Political Leadership – By Zoltan L. Hajnal (2008) (0)
Who are Psychology’s Subjects? (1996) (0)
Impressionable Years: The Impact of Parental Political Socialization and College Education on Later Political Activity (2009) (0)
Reexamining the Effect of Racial Propositions on Latinos’ Partisanship in California (2017) (0)
The black political dilemma. (1992) (0)
Parents' rights in choice of school (2010) (0)
The Politics of the Class of '65. (1982) (0)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: The Political Psychology of Identity Choice (2014) (0)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Prologue (2014) (0)
5. Symbolic Politics: A Socio-Psychological Theory (2020) (0)
Harsh citizens from strict early discipline grow. (1998) (0)
Book Review:Ghetto Revolts: The Politics of Violence in American Cities. Joe R. Feagin, Harlan Hahn (1975) (0)
The 19th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition: Political Cognition (1987) (0)
Political Psychology Comes of Age@@@Political Psychology.@@@Political Cognition.@@@International Conflict and National Public Policy Issues. (1987) (0)
An introductory political psychology text. (1990) (0)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Conclusion (2014) (0)
The impact of the impressionable years on the partisan realignment of the white South. (2010) (0)
The Los Angeles Riots (2019) (0)
Culture of Honor and the Southern Voter: Understanding southern political realignment in the United States (2009) (0)
Solidarity and Black Politics. (1992) (0)
Símbolos políticos y acción moral colectiva (2007) (0)
Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference. By David Ingram. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. ix+323 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (2001) (0)
How Family Members Perceive Each Other: Political and Social Attitudes in Two Generations. By Niemi Richard G.. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1974. Pp. 214. $10.00.) (1977) (0)
Psychology and Politics: A Textbook. (1986) (0)
Policy and Polity. (1966) (0)
The Impact of Racial Attitudes in the White South on the 2008 Election (2010) (0)
The Social Psychology of Public Opinion. (1993) (0)
Catalysts of Change: The Womens Movement and Older Womens Return to the Workforce (2008) (0)
Early and Later Political Socialization in Latin American Immigrants: Assessing the Impact of Immigration (2009) (0)
Is the American Dream Incompatible With Racial Equality (1995) (0)
On the history of political diversity in social psychology. (2015) (0)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism: Multiculturalism and Party Politics (2014) (0)
[White Reaction to Black Candidates: When Does Race Matter?]: Reply (1991) (0)
The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials (2022) (0)
Collective voting behavior. (1968) (0)
Schemas and Symbolic Politics: The Cases of Racial and Gender Equality. (1984) (0)
On the State of the Union Between Psychology and Politics. (2004) (0)
The Effect of Humiliation on Preferences for Aggressive Foreign Policy (2008) (0)
The Political Character of Adolescence: The Influence of Families and Schools. M. Kent Jennings , Richard G. Niemi (1976) (0)
The Scar of Race.Paul M. Sniderman , Thomas Piazza (1995) (0)

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