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PhD Political Psychologist | Advanced R Statistical Consultant & Survey/Experimental Methodologist

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I am an Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. There, I direct the Psychology of Inequality and Politics (PIP) Lab, and am an affiliate of the Arizona Policy Lab. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2017 and my Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2011. I bridge the gap between complex behavioral data and actionable insights. As a university professor, I specialize in transforming raw survey or experimental data, public opinion polls, and text-as-data into publication-grade statistical models and clear strategy reports using R (and sometimes Python). I am flexible in my ability to work with both industry/political clients and academics/researchers. My areas of expertise include: American politics, political psychology, political neuroscience (including use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging), public opinion, polarization, democratic norms, race and politics, wealth inequality, statistics, survey methodology, implicit attitudes, and experimental design. I study political psychology with a particular focus on public attitudes regarding democracy and polarization, race and racism, wealth inequality, partisan/ideological conflict, and political tolerance. I mainly use observational survey data and a variety of experimental methods in my work. I am particularly interested in political cognition and nonconscious processes, and so often use indirect measures (e.g., implicit associations, cognitive and behavioral tasks) to gauge various levels of political thinking. I also use Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in some work (previously funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF)) to investigate the neural processes underlying political cognition related to partisan as well as race-related evaluations. My work has been published in political science journals such as Political Communication and Political Research Quarterly as well as psychology journals such as Behavioural Brain Research, Personality and Individual Differences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B. I have consulted for non-profit organizations in the past, helping to design and launch surveys, analyze data, and prepare educational materials related to topics like political polarization, the origins of public opinion, and prejudice.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Survey Design
• ☆ Black & African American Interest
• ☆ Political Psychology
• ☆ Political Science
• ☆ Political Commentary
• ☆ R
• ☆ Survey Design & Methodology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Market Research, User Research, Fact Checking, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Associated professor

University of Arizona

July 2024 - Present

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

University of Arizona

August 2017 - July 2024

Education

PhD

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

August 2011 - May 2017

Bachelors

University of Delaware

August 2007 - May 2011

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Rongbo Jin, Frank J. Gonzalez (2025). Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis: Authoritarian Personality and System Justification Across Class . Social Science Quarterly.

Frank J. Gonzalez, Ingrid J. Haas (2025). The neural mechanisms of race priming in American politics . Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Frank J. Gonzalez (2024). Implicit-explicit discrepancies regarding racial attitudes among U.S. Whites . The Journal of Social Psychology.

Racial and ethnic variation in the negativity bias–ideology connection: A registered report <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=/servlet/useragent"> </head> . Politics and the Life Sciences.

Frank J. Gonzalez (2021). Unresolved Politics: Implicit Ambivalence and Political Cognition . Political Research Quarterly.

PREPRINT

Frank Gonzalez, Ingrid Johnsen Haas (2024). The Neural Mechanisms of Race Priming in American Politics .

Frank Gonzalez, Alexandra McCoy(2021). Who is it okay to punch? . Center for Open Science

Frank Gonzalez, Ingrid Johnsen Haas, Melissa N Baker (2020). Political Uncertainty Moderates Neural Evaluation of Incongruent Policy Positions .