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Overview

Jeffery J. Mondak is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily rooted in social sciences and psychology, with a notable focus on political behavior and personality traits.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications across various venues. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Personality on the Hill: Expert Evaluations of U.S. Senators' Psychological Traits, 2020, Political Research Quarterly
  • Citizen grit: Effects of domain-specificity, perseverance, and consistency on political judgment, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Fact-opinion differentiation, 2024, Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • How Bad is Bad?: Dispositional Negativity in Political Judgment, 2021, Political Behavior
  • Three Validation Tests of the Shor-McCarty State Legislator Ideology Data, 2020, American Politics Research

Their frequent collaborators include Matthew Mettler, Megan Remmel, Matthew G. Rice, Damarys Canache, and Mitchell A. Seligson.

Jeffery J. Mondak's primary fields of study are social sciences and psychology, with further specialization in subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

Jeffery J. Mondak's work addresses intersections of psychology and political science, exploring how personality traits influence political behavior and judgment. Their studies on grit and perseverance focus on domain-specific effects in political decision-making contexts, while other contributions investigate misinformation and fact-opinion differentiation.

The scientist has published in specialized academic journals, reflecting a cross-disciplinary engagement with topics related to electoral participation, psychological resilience, and cognitive assessment.

Best Publications

  • Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior

    Jeffery J. Mondak;Matthew V. Hibbing;Damarys Canache;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • A Framework for the Study of Personality and Political Behaviour

    Jeffery J Mondak;Karen D Halperin

  • Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • The Workplace as a Context for Cross-Cutting Political Discourse

    Diana C. Mutz;Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Meaning and Measurement in Cross-National Research on Satisfaction with Democracy

    Damarys Canache;Jeffery J. Mondak;Mitchell A. Seligson

  • Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

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  • The Knowledge Gap: A Reexamination of Gender-Based Differences in Political Knowledge

    Jeffery J. Mondak;Mary R. Anderson

  • Developing Valid Knowledge Scales

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Source Cues and Policy Approval: The Cognitive Dynamics of Public Support for the Reagan Agenda

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Public opinion and heuristic processing of source cues

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowledge

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Competence, Integrity, and the Electoral Success of Congressional Incumbents

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • The Dynamics of Public Support for the Supreme Court

    Jeffery J. Mondak;Shannon Ishiyama Smithey

  • ASKED AND ANSWERED: Knowledge Levels When We Will Not Take "Don't Know" for an Answer

    Jeffery J. Mondak;Belinda Creel Davis

  • Dimensions of Sociotropic Behavior: Group-Based Judgements of Fairness and Well-Being

    Diana C. Mutz;Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Newspapers and Political Awareness

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Do Attitudes Toward Specific Supreme Court Decisions Matter? The Impact of Webster and Texas v. Johnson on Public Confidence in the Supreme Court:

    Anke Grosskopf;Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Inspected by #1184063113: The Influence of Incumbents' Competence and Integrity in U.S. House Elections

    Carl Mccurley;Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Policy Legitimacy and the Supreme Court: The Sources and Contexts of Legitimation

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Institutional Legitimacy, Policy Legitimacy, and the Supreme Court

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators

    Bryce J. Dietrich;Scott Lasley;Jeffery J. Mondak;Megan L. Remmel

  • Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment

    Jeffery J. Mondak

  • Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution by Timothy E. Cook

    Jeffery J. Mondak

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Huckfeldt
Robert Huckfeldt University of California, Davis
Mitchell A. Seligson
Mitchell A. Seligson Vanderbilt University
Edward G. Carmines
Edward G. Carmines Indiana University
Mark Peffley
Mark Peffley University of Kentucky
Diana C. Mutz
Diana C. Mutz University of Pennsylvania

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