Howard Lavine is Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology. He is author of Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution (2017) and The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (2012), which won the Robert E. Lane and David O. Sears Book Awards. He is editor of Advances in Political Psychology.

Charles S. Taber is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991, and works in the fields of political psychology and computational modeling. Taber has contributed to the growing literature on the psychological mechanisms that drive public opinion, and his 2013 book, The Rationalizing Voter, coauthored with Milton Lodge, won the Robert E. Lane Book Award and the Book of the Year Awards from the Experimental Politics and Migration and Citizenship Sections of the American Political Science Association.

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