Eric Groenendyk

Biography

Eric Groenendyk is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2009. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Communication Studies with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 2001. Before arriving at Stony Brook, he was Dunavant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis.

Research

Eric Groenendyk’s research examines the motivations that underlie opinions, beliefs, communication, and behavior in politics. He is particularly interested in the norms associated with identity groups, the goals made salient by the context of politics, the nature and dynamics of party identification, and the influence of emotion in politics. His work has been published in numerous journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.  His book, Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind, was published by Oxford University Press.

Books

Groenendyk, Eric W. (2013). Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind: How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Party Identification and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Recent publications

Groenendyk, Eric, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan, and Elizabeth Connors. (2023). "Selecting Out of Politics: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation." Conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review.

Groenendyk, Eric, Erik Kimbrough and Mark Pickup. (2023). "How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." American Journal of Political Science 67 (3): 623-638. 

Groenendyk, Eric and Yanna Krupnikov. (2021). “What Motivates Reasoning?  A Theory of Goal-Dependent Political Evaluation.” American Journal of Political Science 65(1): 180-196.    

Groenendyk, Eric, Michael Sances, Kirill Zhirkov. (2020). “Intraparty Polarization in American Politics.” Journal of Politics, 82(4): 1616       1620.

Groenendyk, Eric W. (2019) “Of Two Minds, But One Heart:  A Good “Gut” Feeling Moderates the Effect of Ambivalence on Attitude Formation and Turnout.”  American Journal of Political Science 63(2): 368-384.

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