My interdisciplinary program of research advances our understanding of how individuals and groups learn and use political information. I employ eye-tracking technology to investigate theoretical propositions about political learning and decision making that often cannot be adequately addressed using traditional survey and survey-experimental methods. By using this technique, I have been able either to confirm tenuous survey results, challenge those results, or pose new questions. The long-term goal of my work is to understand the conditions that facilitate or inhibit sound decisions in a democratic society.

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