Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Research

• Teas, P.E. (2025). Partisan or principled? Explaining political differences in attitudes about violations of democratic norms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-19.
• Teas, P.E., Hanson, B., Leal, A., Novak, L., Skitka, L. (2024). Values in context: The (dis)connections between moral foundations and moral conviction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51(9), 1587-1605.
• Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S.A. [and 78 other authors, including Teas, P.E.] (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625(7993), 134-147.
• Batailler, C., Brannon, S.M., Teas, P.E., Gawronski, B. (2022). A signal detection approach to understanding the identification of fake news. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(1), 78-98.

Selected Other Articles & White Papers

• Filindra, A., Teas, P.E., Manning, A., Harbridge-Yong, L. (2024, August 13). Trump assassination attempt captured ‘true human cost’ of political violence. Chicago Sun-Times.
• Teas, P.E. (2024, July 8). Understanding disengaged voters and their role in the 2024 election. YouGov.
• Orth, T. & Teas, P.E. (2024, June 26). Who wins on policy? American support for Biden’s and Trump’s proposals. YouGov.
• Teas, P.E. (2024, June 26). Views of 40 social movements reveal groups supported most by Americans. YouGov.
• Teas, P.E. (2024, May 10). Explaining the partisan gap in support for student loan forgiveness. YouGov.
• Teas, P.E., & Skitka, L. (in press). Beyond preferences and conventions: The distinctiveness of moral conviction. In The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief.
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology. (2023). State of the research – 2023 [White paper]. Washington, DC.

Presentations

• Teas, P.E. (2025, February). Comparing two measures of political sectarianism. In Teas, P.E. (chair), Beyond polarization: Measuring political sectarianism and its consequences for democracy. [Symposium]. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO.
• Teas, P. E. (2024, April). Partisan or principled? Explaining political differences in attitudes about violations of democratic norms [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
• Filindra, A., Harbridge-Yong, L., Manning, A., Teas, P.E. (2024, April). Diffused domestic terrorism targeting America’s elected officials and staff: Qualitative investigation of causes and consequences. [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
• Teas, P.E., Carter-Sowell, A., Cornwell, J. (co-presenters). (2024, February). Applying personality and social psychology research to address social challenges. Professional development session at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
• Teas, P.E., Skitka, L. (2023, July). Tweaking the moral temperature: The moralization and demoralization of social issues. Paper presented at the 19th biennial meeting of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR), Munich, GER.
• Teas, P.E., Hanson, B., Leal, A., Novak, L., Skitka, L. (2023, June). Shaky connections: Moral foundations and moral convictions. In Kutlaca, M. (chair), A fresh look at an old debate: Ideological (a)symmetries across contexts and methods. [Symposium]. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, PL.
• Teas, P.E., Hanson, B., Leal, A., Novak, L., Skitka, L. (2023, February). Shaky connections: Moral foundations and moral convictions. In Teas, P.E., Novak, L. (co-chairs), Moralized politics are dangerous politics. [Symposium]. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
• Teas, P.E., Hanson, B., Leal, A., Novak, L., Skitka, L. (2022, February). The Foundations of moral attitudes: Examining whether concerns beyond harm predict attitude moralization. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Francisco.
• Teas, P.E., Skitka, L., Skalamera, J. (2021, February). Depends on how you slice it: Using male and female circumcision to understand when predictors of moralization diverge. Poster presented at the virtual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.