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Department of Political Science
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208209
New Haven, CT 06520-8209
[email protected]
http://bullock.research.yale.edu
+1 203 500 0861
JOHN G. BULLOCK
APPOINTMENTS
Yale University. Associate Professor of Political Science (without tenure).
2014-present.
Yale University. Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
2008-present.
Yale University. Assistant Professor of Political Science. 2008-14.
Harvard University. Fellow of the Center for American Political Studies.
2010-11.
University of British Columbia at Vancouver. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow.
2007-08.
EDUCATION
Stanford University. Ph.D. in political science. 2007.
Yale University. B.A. in political science, cum laude, distinction in the
major. 2001.
REFEREED
ARTICLES
Bullock, John G, Alan S. Gerber, Seth J. Hill, and Gregory A. Huber.
2015. “Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics.” Quarterly Journal of
Political Science.
Bullock, John G. 2011. “Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an
Informed Electorate.” American Political Science Review 105 (August):
496-515. Reprinted in Political Knowledge, ed. Jeffrey Friedman and
Shterna Friedman. 2012. New York: Routledge University Press. One of
Cambridge University Press’s “10 most-read APSR articles,” August 2014.
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Luskin, Robert C., and John G. Bullock. 2011. “‘Don’t Know’ Means ‘Don’t
Know’: DK Responses and the Public’s Level of Political Knowledge.”
Journal of Politics 73 (April): 547-57.
Bullock, John G., Donald P. Green, and Shang E. Ha. 2010. “Yes, But
What’s the Mechanism? (Don’t Expect an Easy Answer).” Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology 98 (April): 550-58.
Bullock, John G. 2009. “Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study
of Public Opinion.” Journal of Politics 71 (July): 1109-24.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
Bullock, John G., and Donald P. Green. 2013. “Mediation Analysis in
the Social Sciences” (comment). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,
Series A (January): 38-39.
Bullock, John G., and Shang E. Ha. 2011. “Mediation Analysis Is Harder
than It Looks.” In Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science,
ed. James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, and
Arthur Lupia. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Green, Donald P., Shang E. Ha, and John G. Bullock. 2010. “Enough
Already about ‘Black Box’ Experiments: Studying Mediation Is More
Difficult than Most Scholars Suppose.” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 628 (March): 200-08.
Bendor, Jonathan, and John G. Bullock. 2008. “Lethal Incompetence:
Voters, Officials, and Systems.” Critical Review 20 (March): 1-24.
Sniderman, Paul M., and John G. Bullock. 2004. “A Consistency
Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of
Menu Dependence.” In Studies in Public Opinion: Gauging Attitudes,
Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change, ed. Willem E. Saris and
Paul M. Sniderman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
INVITED TALKS
(LAST FIVE YEARS)
Aarhus University (Denmark), Columbia University, Cornell University,
Fordham University, Harvard University, International Rescue
Committee, MIT (American Politics Conference), Ohio State University,
Princeton University (Political Impact of Media Conference), Princeton
University Department of Psychology, Rudd Center for Food Policy
and Obesity, Temple University, University of California at Berkeley,
University of California at Los Angeles, University of Michigan,
University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, Yale University
Department of Psychology.
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TEAching
Political Preferences and Political Behavior. Graduate seminar. 2008-09,
2011-13.
Political Psychology. Undergraduate lecture. 2009-10, 2012-14.
Public Opinion and Representation in the United States. Undergraduate
seminar. 2009, 2011-13.
Research and Writing in the Discipline. Year-long seminar required of all
second-year graduate students at Yale. 2009-10.
Experimental Methods. One-week course at Aarhus University,
Denmark. 2012.
Departmental
Service
Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee. 2013.
Graduate Admissions Committee. 2010, 2012.
Dissertation committees of eight students. External dissertation reader for
one additional student.
Default adviser for undergraduates concentrating in American politics.
2011-13.
Experimental Lab Committee of the Institution for Social and Policy
Studies. 2011-13.
Coordinator of the American Politics and Public Policy Workshop. 2011-12.
Field exam committees: American politics (2009, 2012-13), political
psychology (2009-10), quantitative methods (2011).
CSAP Fellow Review Committee. 2008.
Senior Essay Prize Committee. 2009-10, 2013.
Information Technology Committee. 2008-09, 2011-12.
SERVICE TO THE
DISCIPLINE
Chair of the Public Opinion Section of the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association. 2012.
Nominating Committee of the Experimental Research Section of the
American Political Science Association. 2011-12.
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Awards Committee of the Experimental Research Section of the
American Political Science Association. 2014.
Funds Committee of the Political Psychology Section of the American
Political Science Association. 2012-13.
Discussant at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science
Association (2010-11), Midwest Political Science Association (2010,
2013-15), and the Southern Political Science Association (2012).
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Political
Science Review, American Politics Research, British Journal of Political
Science, Communication Research, Economic Journal, Journal of Elections,
Public Opinion, and Parties, Journal of Experimental Political Science,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Politics, MacArthur
Fellowship Committee, Mathematical Social Sciences, National Science
Foundation, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Communication,
Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Politics & Gender, PS:
Political Science and Politics, Princeton University Press, Psychological
Methods, Public Opinion Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Political Science,
State Politics & Policy Quarterly, and Time-Sharing Experiments for the
Social Sciences.