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David O. Sears

David O’Keefe Sears (born June 24, 1935, in Urbana, Illinois) is an American psychologist who specializes in political psychology. He is a distinguished professor of psychology and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1961. He served as dean of social sciences at UCLA between 1983 and 1992. Best known for his theory of symbolic racism, Sears has published many articles and books about the political and psychological origins of race relations in America, as well as on political socialization and life cycle effects on attitudes, the role of self-interest in attitudes, and multiculturalism. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

David O. Sears
Born (1935-06-24) June 24, 1935 (age 88)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
  • APSA Warren E. Miller Prize (2002)
  • ISPP Harold D. Lasswell Award (1995)
  • AAAS Fellow (1991)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorHoward Leventhal
Other academic advisorsH. Stuart Hughes

Personal life and academic career edit

David Sears was born on June 24, 1935, in Urbana, Illinois, to the psychologists Pauline ("Pat") K. Snedden Sears[1] and Robert Richardson Sears. He has a younger sister, Nancy Sears Barker. When he was one year old, the Sears family moved to New Haven, Connecticut as Robert Sears took up a position at Yale University, staying in there until 1942; due to this early move to New Haven from Urbana, David Sears considers the former as his home city. He further has also lived in Iowa City, Iowa, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Portola Valley, California during his childhood and youth as his parents moved to academic positions in different research universities.

Sears went to Belmont High School and graduated in 1953. He graduated from Stanford University in 1957 with an AB in history with a minor in psychology; he presented, under the H. Stuart Hughes' guidance, a thesis on the Nazi mobilization of the youth. He then received both a MS in 1959 and a PhD in psychology in 1962 from Yale University with the dissertation "Anticipated criticism, opinion structure, and opinion change" having Howard Leventhal[2] as his advisor.[3][4] At Yale, he also worked with and was mentored by political scientist Robert E. Lane[5] serving as research assistant in Lane's research on political attitudes and behavior published in his book Political Ideology.[6]

He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles as an acting assistant professor in 1961 just after having filed his dissertation in December 1961, became an assistant professor in 1962,[7] published his first article—a study of punishment in the white rat—in 1964,[8] and was promoted to associate professor of psychology in 1967. From 1967 to 1968, Sears was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He was promoted to associate professor of psychology and political science in 1969, and to full professor of psychology and political science in 1971. He was a visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley from 1972 to 1973. He served as the dean of social sciences at the UCLA College of Letters and Science from 1983 to 1992, and was the director at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research from 1993 to 2008.[9]

David Sears was awarded with the Edward L. Bernays Foundation Psychology and Social Issues Book Award in 1975 for The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot[9] co-authored with John B. McConahay[10]. He also received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues[11] in 1978 for his paper Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to 'The Good Life', co-authored with Donald R. Kinder.[12] Sears became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.[13] He served as the president of the International Society of Political Psychology in 1994–95, received the Harold D. Lasswell Award from the ISPP for his "distinguished scientific contribution in the field of political psychology" in 1995[14] and the Warren E. Miller Award from the American Political Science Association for his "lifetime intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting behavior field" in 2002.[9] In 2012, the ISPP established the David O. Sears Award in his honor. The Sears Award has been given for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics in the previous year.[15]

He teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in political psychology at UCLA[16] and coordinate the UCLA Political Psychology Lab. His graduate laboratory on political psychology brings together students from different fields to explore and discuss contemporary research on political psychological topics as political socialization, race and ethnicity, political participation, and public opinion.

As of 2021, David Sears has been cited 37,832 times in Google Scholar, being the sixth most cited in political psychology in that site, after Shalom Schwartz, Jonathan Haidt, Philip Tetlock, John Jost, and Sheldon Solomon.[citation needed]

He married Cynthia Lovelace in 1961, divorcing in 1970. In 2004, he married his former student, and girlfriend, Carrie Powers, who died October 29, 2010.[17] He has three daughters, Juliet, Olivia, Meredith. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California and spends his summer vacations in Lake Winnipesaukee, Moultonborough, New Hampshire.[citation needed]

Research edit

Symbolic politics edit

The symbolic politics theory argues that symbolic predispositions evoke longstanding affective responses rather than rational self-interest calculations as powerful causes of opinions and behaviors.[18][19]

Self interest is defined as the "(1) short-to-medium term impact of an issue (or candidacy) on the (2) material well-being of the (3) individual's own personal life (or that of his or her immediate family)." Self-interest does not include long-term interest, nonmaterial—social or psychological—elements of well-being or group-related benefits.[20] Self-interest is contrasted to "symbolic predisposition" as partisanship, ideology, or beliefs. Sears' theory of symbolic politics argues that these symbolic predispositions are formed early in life and are stable, and so are not correlated with self-interest.[18][19]

With few exceptions throughout the literature, symbolic predispositions has presented more substantive and statistical explanatory power on attitudes and behaviors than self-interest. Only in occasional exceptions, as when there are clear and substantial stakes as job cuts or regarding tax burdens[21] or ambiguous and dangerous threats as compulsory military draft lottery,[22] self-interest has a clear effect on political attitudes and behavior. Even in these cases, the impact of self-interest are quite specific to the issues in question.[23]

Symbolic racism edit

Sears' theory of symbolic racism was developed during the decade of 1970 and further refined.[24][25][26] His theory has been developed and used in the analysis of new forms of racism in the United States that emerged especially after the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s. According to Sears' theory of symbolic racism, a subtle form of racism replaced the Jim Crow or "old-fashioned racism". Instead of the open prejudice, based on beliefs in the biological inferiority of Blacks and support for formal segregation and discrimination, the symbolic racism is a more abstract set of beliefs comprising a “blend” of primitive anti-Black affect with traditional American moral values.

As defined by Kinder and Sears,

Symbolic racism represents a form of resistance to change in the racial status quo based on moral feelings that blacks violate such traditional American values as individualism and self-reliance, the work ethic, obedience, and discipline. Whites may feel that people should be rewarded on their merits, which in turn should be based on hard work and diligent service. Hence symbolic racism should find its most vociferous expression on political issues that involve 'unfair' government assistance to blacks: welfare ('welfare cheats could find work if they tried'); 'reverse discrimination' and racial quotas ('blacks should not be given a status they have not earned'); 'forced' busing ('whites have worked hard for their neighborhoods, and for their neighborhood schools'); or 'free' abortions for the poor ('if blacks behaved morally, they would not need abortions').[24]

The symbolic racism is an effort to understand White's continuing resistance to efforts and policies aiming to increase racial inequality despite the decline of the level of overt racism in the USA.

Although slightly revised versions of the theory symbolic racism have appears in the literature under label like “modern racism” [27] and “racial resentment”,[28] they have been operationalized empirically with similar survey items. The symbolic racism and its variants have been the most widely used measures of explicit racism in the last three decades.[29]

Despite the fact that symbolic racism is conceptualized as a “blend” of anti-Blacks affect with traditional American values, it has been presenting an independent explanatory power explaining White's racial policy attitudes even when controlled for other items (different from those used in its scale) measuring either racism or traditional/conservative values.

Academic positions edit

Notable and emerging students edit

Awards and recognition edit

In the popular press edit

Appearances in the popular media include:

  • On April 22, 2011, David O. Sears discussed in The New York Times the racialization of 2008 presidential election and the role of racial resentment as a predictor of candidate choice.[30]
  • In an interview[when?] to the newsletter UCLA Today, David O. Sears discussed the impact of multicultural environments and institutions on reducing racial bias.[31]

Published works edit

Books edit

  • Lane, Robert E.; David O. Sears (1964). Public Opinion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. OCLC 255504.
  • Freedman, Jonathan L.; David O. Sears; J. Merrill Carlsmith (1970). Social Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. OCLC 79448.
  • Freedman, Jonathan L.; Carlsmith, J. Merrill; Sears, David O., eds. (1971). Readings in Social Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. ISBN 9780137610723. OCLC 137568.
  • Sears, David O.; John B. McConahay (1973). The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 745837.
  • Sears, David O.; Richard E. Whitney (1973). Political Persuasion. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
  • Freedman, Jonathan L.; J. Merrill Carlsmith; David O. Sears (1974). Social Psychology (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Freedman, Jonathan L.; David O. Sears; J. Merrill Carlsmith (1978). Social Psychology (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Freedman, Jonathan L.; David O. Sears; J. Merrill Carlsmith (1981). Social Psychology (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Jack Citrin (1982). Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674868359. OCLC 7977175.
  • Sears, David O.; Jonathan L. Freedman; Letitia A. Peplau (1985). Social Psychology (5th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Jack Citrin (1985). Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (Enlarged ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674868359. OCLC 786934617.
  • Lau, Richard R; Sears, David O., eds. (1986). Political Cognition: The 19th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 9780898596526. OCLC 12079909.
  • Sears, David O.; Letitia A. Peplau; Jonathan L. Freedman; Shelley E. Taylor (1988). Social Psychology (6th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Peplau, Letitia A.; Sears, David O.; Taylor, Shelley E.; et al., eds. (1988). Readings in Social Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Contributions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. OCLC 17441386.
  • Sears, David O.; Letitia A. Peplau; Shelley E. Taylor (1991). Social Psychology (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Letitia A. Peplau; Shelley E. Taylor (1994). Social Psychology (8th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Letitia A. Peplau; Shelley E. Taylor (1996). Social Psychology (9th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Sidanius, Jim; Bobo, Lawrence, eds. (2000). Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism in America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226744056. OCLC 41612398.
  • Taylor, Shelley E.; Letitia A. Peplau; David O. Sears (2000). Social Psychology (10th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. ISBN 9780130213365.
  • Taylor, Shelley E.; Letitia A. Peplau; David O. Sears (2003). Social Psychology (11th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sears, David O.; Huddy, Leonie; Jervis, Robert, eds. (2003). Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199729340. OCLC 50404137.
  • Taylor, Shelley E.; Letitia A. Peplau; David O. Sears (2005). Social Psychology (12th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.
  • Sidanius, Jim; Shana Levin; Colette Van Laar; David O. Sears (2008). The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780871547934. OCLC 227192118.
  • Tesler, Michael; David O. Sears (2008). Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780226793832. OCLC 587209565.
  • Sears, David O.; Huddy, Leonie; Levy, Jack S. (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. in press (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Selected articles and book chapters edit

  • Sears, David O. (1969). (PDF). Midwest Journal of Political Science. 13 (4): 515–544. doi:10.2307/2110070. JSTOR 2110070. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010.
  • Sears, David O. (1975). "Political Socialization" (PDF). In Greenstein, Fred I.; Polsby, Nelson W. (eds.). Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 2. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Kinder, Donald R.; David O. Sears (1981). (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 40 (3): 414–431. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.40.3.414. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2012.
  • Sears, David O. (1983). (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 44 (2): 233–250. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.44.2.233. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2010.
  • Sears, David O.; Carolyn L. Funk (1991). (PDF). Vol. 24. pp. 1–91. doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60327-5. ISBN 9780120152247. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  • Sears, David O. (1993). "Symbolic Politics: A Socio-Psychological Theory" (PDF). In Iyengar, Shanto; McGuire, William J. (eds.). Explorations in Political Psychology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Sears, David O.; Nicholas A. Valentino (1997). (PDF). American Political Science Review. 91 (1): 45–65. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.540.4505. doi:10.2307/2952258. JSTOR 2952258. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010.
  • Sears, David O.; P. J. Henry (2005). (PDF). Vol. 37. pp. 95–130. doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(05)37002-x. ISBN 9780120152377. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  • Sears, David O.; Nicholas A. Valentino (2005). (PDF). American Journal of Political Science. 49 (3): 672–688. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2005.00136.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010.
  • Sears, David O.; Victoria Savalei (2006). (PDF). Political Psychology. 27 (6): 895–924. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00542.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2010.

References edit

  1. ^ Young, Jacy L. (2010). Rutherford, A. (ed.). "Profile of Pauline Sears". Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  2. ^ "Howard Leventhal". IHHCPAR Faculty. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  3. ^ For David O. Sears' dissertation, see the references for the article: David O. Sears (1967). '"Social Anxiety, Opinion Structure, and Opinion Change 2010-07-12 at the Wayback Machine"'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 7 (2): 142-151.
  4. ^ Howard Leventhal's CV. David O. Sears is listed as one of his former students.
  5. ^ "Robert E. Lane". Yale Department of Political Science. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  6. ^ Lane, Robert E. (1962). Political Ideology: Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does. New York, NY: Free Press. OCLC 2282017.
  7. ^ At that time, Yale University conferred degrees only once a year, by the end of the academic year. Sears filed his dissertation in December 1961, and need to wait until June 1962, to receive his doctoral degree. Since he had already finished his dissertation, he was hired at UCLA in 1961 but could only become an assistant professor in 1962 after having his degree officially conferred.
  8. ^ Sears, David O. (1964). (PDF). Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 57 (2): 297–299. doi:10.1037/h0047129. PMID 14168660. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010.
  9. ^ a b c "David Sears' CV" (PDF). September 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  10. ^ "John B. McConahay". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved November 20, 2012.
  11. ^ "Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues".
  12. ^ "The Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues". Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  13. ^ "Academy Membership, Chapter 'S'" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  14. ^ "Harold D. Lasswell Prize". International Society of Political Psychology. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  15. ^ "David O. Sears Book Award". International Society of Political Psychology. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  16. ^ "David O. Sears' Class Websites". ClassWeb. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  17. ^ Carrie F. Sears, 53; Retired Bond Trader, Creative Home Gardener
  18. ^ a b Sears, David O.; Carolyn L. Funk (1990). (PDF). In Mansbridge, J. J. (ed.). Beyond Self-Interest. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  19. ^ a b Sears, David O.; Carolyn L. Funk (1991). (PDF). Vol. 24. pp. 1–91. doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60327-5. ISBN 9780120152247. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  20. ^ David O. Sears and Carolyn L. Funk (1990). '"Self-Interest in Americans' Political Opinions 2010-07-12 at the Wayback Machine"'. In J. J. Mansbridge (Ed.), Beyond Self-Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, p. 148
  21. ^ Sears, David O.; Jack Citrin (1985). Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (Enlarged ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674868359. OCLC 786934617.
  22. ^ Erikson, Robert S.; Laura Stoker (2011). "Caught in the draft: The effects of Vietnam draft lottery status on political attitudes". American Political Science Review. 105 (2): 221–237. doi:10.1017/s0003055411000141. S2CID 146777226.
  23. ^ David O. Sears and Carolyn L. Funk (1990). '"Self-Interest in Americans' Political Opinions 2010-07-12 at the Wayback Machine"'. In J. J. Mansbridge (Ed.), Beyond Self-Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, p. 170
  24. ^ a b Kinder, Donald R.; David O. Sears (1981). (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 40 (3): 414–431. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.40.3.414. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2012.
  25. ^ Sears, David O.; P. J. Henry (2005). (PDF). Vol. 37. pp. 95–130. doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(05)37002-x. ISBN 9780120152377. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2010. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  26. ^ Sears, David O.; Colette Van Laar; Mary Carrilo; Rick Kosterman (1997). (PDF). Public Opinion Quarterly. 61 (1): 16–53. doi:10.1086/297785. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2010.
  27. ^ McConahay, John B. (1986). "Modern racism, ambivalence, and the modern racism scale". In Dovidio, John; Gaertner, Samuel L. (eds.). Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism. Orlando, FL: Academic Press. OCLC 13559866.
  28. ^ Kinder, Donald R; Lynn M. Sanders (1996). Divided by Color: Racial politics and democratic ideals. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 33819409.
  29. ^ Biernat, Monica; Christian S. Crandall (1999). "Racial attitudes". In Robinson, J. P.; Shaver, P. R; Wrightsman, L. S. (eds.). Measures of Political Attitudes. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. OCLC 40865533.
  30. ^ Sears, David O. "Racial Resentment at Its Root". The New York Times. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  31. ^ Sears, David O. . UCLA Today. Archived from the original on October 22, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2012.

External links edit

  • Profile on the UCLA Psychology Department website
  • Profile on the Social Psychology Network website
  • WorldCat: Works by or about David O. Sears
  • David O. Sears' published articles and book chapters

david, sears, david, keefe, sears, born, june, 1935, urbana, illinois, american, psychologist, specializes, political, psychology, distinguished, professor, psychology, political, science, university, california, angeles, where, been, teaching, since, 1961, se. David O Keefe Sears born June 24 1935 in Urbana Illinois is an American psychologist who specializes in political psychology He is a distinguished professor of psychology and political science at the University of California Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1961 He served as dean of social sciences at UCLA between 1983 and 1992 Best known for his theory of symbolic racism Sears has published many articles and books about the political and psychological origins of race relations in America as well as on political socialization and life cycle effects on attitudes the role of self interest in attitudes and multiculturalism He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991 David O SearsBorn 1935 06 24 June 24 1935 age 88 Urbana IllinoisNationalityAmericanCitizenshipUnited StatesAlma materStanford University Yale UniversityKnown forSymbolic racism Political socialization Attitudes formation and change Intergroup relationsAwardsAPSA Warren E Miller Prize 2002 ISPP Harold D Lasswell Award 1995 AAAS Fellow 1991 Scientific careerFieldsPsychology Political ScienceInstitutionsUniversity of California Los AngelesDoctoral advisorHoward LeventhalOther academic advisorsH Stuart Hughes Contents 1 Personal life and academic career 2 Research 2 1 Symbolic politics 2 2 Symbolic racism 3 Academic positions 4 Notable and emerging students 5 Awards and recognition 6 In the popular press 7 Published works 7 1 Books 7 2 Selected articles and book chapters 8 References 9 External linksPersonal life and academic career editDavid Sears was born on June 24 1935 in Urbana Illinois to the psychologists Pauline Pat K Snedden Sears 1 and Robert Richardson Sears He has a younger sister Nancy Sears Barker When he was one year old the Sears family moved to New Haven Connecticut as Robert Sears took up a position at Yale University staying in there until 1942 due to this early move to New Haven from Urbana David Sears considers the former as his home city He further has also lived in Iowa City Iowa Cambridge Massachusetts and Portola Valley California during his childhood and youth as his parents moved to academic positions in different research universities Sears went to Belmont High School and graduated in 1953 He graduated from Stanford University in 1957 with an AB in history with a minor in psychology he presented under the H Stuart Hughes guidance a thesis on the Nazi mobilization of the youth He then received both a MS in 1959 and a PhD in psychology in 1962 from Yale University with the dissertation Anticipated criticism opinion structure and opinion change having Howard Leventhal 2 as his advisor 3 4 At Yale he also worked with and was mentored by political scientist Robert E Lane 5 serving as research assistant in Lane s research on political attitudes and behavior published in his book Political Ideology 6 He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of California Los Angeles as an acting assistant professor in 1961 just after having filed his dissertation in December 1961 became an assistant professor in 1962 7 published his first article a study of punishment in the white rat in 1964 8 and was promoted to associate professor of psychology in 1967 From 1967 to 1968 Sears was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University He was promoted to associate professor of psychology and political science in 1969 and to full professor of psychology and political science in 1971 He was a visiting professor of political science at the University of California Berkeley from 1972 to 1973 He served as the dean of social sciences at the UCLA College of Letters and Science from 1983 to 1992 and was the director at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research from 1993 to 2008 9 David Sears was awarded with the Edward L Bernays Foundation Psychology and Social Issues Book Award in 1975 for The Politics of Violence The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot 9 co authored with John B McConahay 10 He also received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 11 in 1978 for his paper Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to The Good Life co authored with Donald R Kinder 12 Sears became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991 13 He served as the president of the International Society of Political Psychology in 1994 95 received the Harold D Lasswell Award from the ISPP for his distinguished scientific contribution in the field of political psychology in 1995 14 and the Warren E Miller Award from the American Political Science Association for his lifetime intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections public opinion and voting behavior field in 2002 9 In 2012 the ISPP established the David O Sears Award in his honor The Sears Award has been given for the best book published in the field of the political psychology of mass politics in the previous year 15 He teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in political psychology at UCLA 16 and coordinate the UCLA Political Psychology Lab His graduate laboratory on political psychology brings together students from different fields to explore and discuss contemporary research on political psychological topics as political socialization race and ethnicity political participation and public opinion As of 2021 David Sears has been cited 37 832 times in Google Scholar being the sixth most cited in political psychology in that site after Shalom Schwartz Jonathan Haidt Philip Tetlock John Jost and Sheldon Solomon citation needed He married Cynthia Lovelace in 1961 divorcing in 1970 In 2004 he married his former student and girlfriend Carrie Powers who died October 29 2010 17 He has three daughters Juliet Olivia Meredith He lives in Pacific Palisades California and spends his summer vacations in Lake Winnipesaukee Moultonborough New Hampshire citation needed Research editSymbolic politics edit The symbolic politics theory argues that symbolic predispositions evoke longstanding affective responses rather than rational self interest calculations as powerful causes of opinions and behaviors 18 19 Self interest is defined as the 1 short to medium term impact of an issue or candidacy on the 2 material well being of the 3 individual s own personal life or that of his or her immediate family Self interest does not include long term interest nonmaterial social or psychological elements of well being or group related benefits 20 Self interest is contrasted to symbolic predisposition as partisanship ideology or beliefs Sears theory of symbolic politics argues that these symbolic predispositions are formed early in life and are stable and so are not correlated with self interest 18 19 With few exceptions throughout the literature symbolic predispositions has presented more substantive and statistical explanatory power on attitudes and behaviors than self interest Only in occasional exceptions as when there are clear and substantial stakes as job cuts or regarding tax burdens 21 or ambiguous and dangerous threats as compulsory military draft lottery 22 self interest has a clear effect on political attitudes and behavior Even in these cases the impact of self interest are quite specific to the issues in question 23 Symbolic racism edit Sears theory of symbolic racism was developed during the decade of 1970 and further refined 24 25 26 His theory has been developed and used in the analysis of new forms of racism in the United States that emerged especially after the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s According to Sears theory of symbolic racism a subtle form of racism replaced the Jim Crow or old fashioned racism Instead of the open prejudice based on beliefs in the biological inferiority of Blacks and support for formal segregation and discrimination the symbolic racism is a more abstract set of beliefs comprising a blend of primitive anti Black affect with traditional American moral values As defined by Kinder and Sears Symbolic racism represents a form of resistance to change in the racial status quo based on moral feelings that blacks violate such traditional American values as individualism and self reliance the work ethic obedience and discipline Whites may feel that people should be rewarded on their merits which in turn should be based on hard work and diligent service Hence symbolic racism should find its most vociferous expression on political issues that involve unfair government assistance to blacks welfare welfare cheats could find work if they tried reverse discrimination and racial quotas blacks should not be given a status they have not earned forced busing whites have worked hard for their neighborhoods and for their neighborhood schools or free abortions for the poor if blacks behaved morally they would not need abortions 24 The symbolic racism is an effort to understand White s continuing resistance to efforts and policies aiming to increase racial inequality despite the decline of the level of overt racism in the USA Although slightly revised versions of the theory symbolic racism have appears in the literature under label like modern racism 27 and racial resentment 28 they have been operationalized empirically with similar survey items The symbolic racism and its variants have been the most widely used measures of explicit racism in the last three decades 29 Despite the fact that symbolic racism is conceptualized as a blend of anti Blacks affect with traditional American values it has been presenting an independent explanatory power explaining White s racial policy attitudes even when controlled for other items different from those used in its scale measuring either racism or traditional conservative values Academic positions edit1961 1962 Acting Assistant Professor of Psychology University of California Los Angeles 1962 1967 Assistant Professor of Psychology University of California Los Angeles 1967 1969 Associate Professor of Psychology University of California Los Angeles 1967 1968 Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology Harvard University 1969 1971 Associate Professor of Psychology and Political Science University of California Los Angeles 1971 present Professor of Psychology and Political Science University of California Los Angeles 1972 1973 Visiting Professor of Political Science University of California Berkeley 1983 1984 Guest Scholar Brookings Institution Washington D C 1983 1992 Dean of Social Sciences College of Letters and Science University of California Los Angeles 1988 1989 Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1992 1993 Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1993 2008 Director Institute for Social Science Research University of California Los AngelesNotable and emerging students editDonald Kinder James Orin Murfin and Philip E Converse Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Political Science at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Co authored several articles and book chapters including award winner article Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to The Good Life Nicholas A Valentino Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Carolyn L Funk Associate Professor of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University Richard R Lau Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Co edited the book Political Cognition Leonie Huddy Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University Co edited the Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology Tom R Tyler University Professor of Psychology at New York University Peter Ditto Professor of Psychology amp Social Behavior at the University of California Irvine Caryl Rusbult Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Ronald Abeles Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health John P McConahay Professor of Psychology at Yale University Co authored The Politics of Violence The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot P J Henry Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi Michael Tesler Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University Co authored Obama s Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post Racial America Awards and recognition editEdward L Bernays Foundation Psychology and Social Issues Book Award for The Politics of Violence The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot 1975 with J B McConahay Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to The Good Life 1978 with D R Kinder Katz Newcomb Annual Lecture in Social Psychology University of Michigan 1988 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1988 1989 Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1991 present Keynote address annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 1991 Guest Specialist Summer Institute in Political Psychology Ohio State University July 1991 Ernst Fraenkel Lecture John F Kennedy Institut fur Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universitat Berlin 1991 President Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics 1991 1992 Ida Beam Lecture University of Iowa 1992 President International Society of Political Psychology 1994 1995 Harold D Lasswell Award International Society of Political Psychology 1995 Warren E Miller Prize American Political Science Association 2002 Miller Converse Lecture University of Michigan 2004 In the popular press editAppearances in the popular media include On April 22 2011 David O Sears discussed in The New York Times the racialization of 2008 presidential election and the role of racial resentment as a predictor of candidate choice 30 In an interview when to the newsletter UCLA Today David O Sears discussed the impact of multicultural environments and institutions on reducing racial bias 31 Published works editBooks edit Lane Robert E David O Sears 1964 Public Opinion Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc OCLC 255504 Freedman Jonathan L David O Sears J Merrill Carlsmith 1970 Social Psychology Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc OCLC 79448 Freedman Jonathan L Carlsmith J Merrill Sears David O eds 1971 Readings in Social Psychology Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc ISBN 9780137610723 OCLC 137568 Sears David O John B McConahay 1973 The Politics of Violence The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot Boston MA Houghton Mifflin OCLC 745837 Sears David O Richard E Whitney 1973 Political Persuasion Morristown NJ General Learning Press Freedman Jonathan L J Merrill Carlsmith David O Sears 1974 Social Psychology 2nd ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Freedman Jonathan L David O Sears J Merrill Carlsmith 1978 Social Psychology 3rd ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Freedman Jonathan L David O Sears J Merrill Carlsmith 1981 Social Psychology 4th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Jack Citrin 1982 Tax Revolt Something for Nothing in California Cambridge MA Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674868359 OCLC 7977175 Sears David O Jonathan L Freedman Letitia A Peplau 1985 Social Psychology 5th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Jack Citrin 1985 Tax Revolt Something for Nothing in California Enlarged ed Cambridge MA Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674868359 OCLC 786934617 Lau Richard R Sears David O eds 1986 Political Cognition The 19th Annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition Hillsdale NJ Erlbaum Associates ISBN 9780898596526 OCLC 12079909 Sears David O Letitia A Peplau Jonathan L Freedman Shelley E Taylor 1988 Social Psychology 6th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Peplau Letitia A Sears David O Taylor Shelley E et al eds 1988 Readings in Social Psychology Classic and Contemporary Contributions Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc OCLC 17441386 Sears David O Letitia A Peplau Shelley E Taylor 1991 Social Psychology 7th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Letitia A Peplau Shelley E Taylor 1994 Social Psychology 8th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Letitia A Peplau Shelley E Taylor 1996 Social Psychology 9th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Sidanius Jim Bobo Lawrence eds 2000 Racialized Politics The Debate About Racism in America Chicago IL The University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780226744056 OCLC 41612398 Taylor Shelley E Letitia A Peplau David O Sears 2000 Social Psychology 10th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc ISBN 9780130213365 Taylor Shelley E Letitia A Peplau David O Sears 2003 Social Psychology 11th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sears David O Huddy Leonie Jervis Robert eds 2003 Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology New York NY Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199729340 OCLC 50404137 Taylor Shelley E Letitia A Peplau David O Sears 2005 Social Psychology 12th ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Inc Sidanius Jim Shana Levin Colette Van Laar David O Sears 2008 The Diversity Challenge Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus Chicago IL The University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780871547934 OCLC 227192118 Tesler Michael David O Sears 2008 Obama s Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post Racial America New York NY Russell Sage Foundation ISBN 9780226793832 OCLC 587209565 Sears David O Huddy Leonie Levy Jack S eds Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology in press 2nd ed New York NY Oxford University Press Selected articles and book chapters edit Sears David O 1969 Black Attitudes Toward the Political System in the Aftermath of the Watts Insurrection PDF Midwest Journal of Political Science 13 4 515 544 doi 10 2307 2110070 JSTOR 2110070 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 Sears David O 1975 Political Socialization PDF In Greenstein Fred I Polsby Nelson W eds Handbook of Political Science Vol 2 Reading MA Addison Wesley Kinder Donald R David O Sears 1981 Prejudice and Politics Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to the Good Life PDF Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40 3 414 431 doi 10 1037 0022 3514 40 3 414 Archived from the original PDF on September 6 2012 Sears David O 1983 The Person Positivity Bias PDF Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 44 2 233 250 doi 10 1037 0022 3514 44 2 233 Archived from the original PDF on July 12 2010 Sears David O Carolyn L Funk 1991 The Role of Self Interest in Social and Political Attitudes PDF Vol 24 pp 1 91 doi 10 1016 s0065 2601 08 60327 5 ISBN 9780120152247 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help Sears David O 1993 Symbolic Politics A Socio Psychological Theory PDF In Iyengar Shanto McGuire William J eds Explorations in Political Psychology Durham NC Duke University Press Sears David O Nicholas A Valentino 1997 Politics Matters Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization PDF American Political Science Review 91 1 45 65 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 540 4505 doi 10 2307 2952258 JSTOR 2952258 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 Sears David O P J Henry 2005 Over Thirty Years Later A Contemporary Look at Symbolic Racism PDF Vol 37 pp 95 130 doi 10 1016 s0065 2601 05 37002 x ISBN 9780120152377 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help Sears David O Nicholas A Valentino 2005 Old Times There Are Not Forgotten Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South PDF American Journal of Political Science 49 3 672 688 doi 10 1111 j 1540 5907 2005 00136 x Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 Sears David O Victoria Savalei 2006 The Political Color Line in America Many Peoples of Color or Black Exceptionalism PDF Political Psychology 27 6 895 924 doi 10 1111 j 1467 9221 2006 00542 x Archived from the original PDF on July 12 2010 References edit Young Jacy L 2010 Rutherford A ed Profile of Pauline Sears Psychology s Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive Retrieved November 12 2012 Howard Leventhal IHHCPAR Faculty Retrieved December 8 2012 For David O Sears dissertation see the references for the article David O Sears 1967 Social Anxiety Opinion Structure and Opinion Change Archived 2010 07 12 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 7 2 142 151 Howard Leventhal s CV David O Sears is listed as one of his former students Robert E Lane Yale Department of Political Science Archived from the original on December 15 2012 Retrieved November 12 2012 Lane Robert E 1962 Political Ideology Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does New York NY Free Press OCLC 2282017 At that time Yale University conferred degrees only once a year by the end of the academic year Sears filed his dissertation in December 1961 and need to wait until June 1962 to receive his doctoral degree Since he had already finished his dissertation he was hired at UCLA in 1961 but could only become an assistant professor in 1962 after having his degree officially conferred Sears David O 1964 Punishment and Choice in the Rat PDF Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 57 2 297 299 doi 10 1037 h0047129 PMID 14168660 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 a b c David Sears CV PDF September 2014 Retrieved February 4 2018 John B McConahay WorldCat Identities Retrieved November 20 2012 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues The Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Retrieved November 12 2012 Academy Membership Chapter S PDF American Academy of Arts and Sciences Retrieved November 12 2012 Harold D Lasswell Prize International Society of Political Psychology Retrieved November 12 2012 David O Sears Book Award International Society of Political Psychology Retrieved November 12 2012 David O Sears Class Websites ClassWeb Archived from the original on January 6 2013 Retrieved December 3 2012 Carrie F Sears 53 Retired Bond Trader Creative Home Gardener a b Sears David O Carolyn L Funk 1990 Self Interest in Americans Political Opinions PDF In Mansbridge J J ed Beyond Self Interest Chicago IL University of Chicago Press Archived from the original PDF on July 12 2010 Retrieved December 10 2012 a b Sears David O Carolyn L Funk 1991 The Role of Self Interest in Social and Political Attitudes PDF Vol 24 pp 1 91 doi 10 1016 s0065 2601 08 60327 5 ISBN 9780120152247 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help David O Sears and Carolyn L Funk 1990 Self Interest in Americans Political Opinions Archived 2010 07 12 at the Wayback Machine In J J Mansbridge Ed Beyond Self Interest Chicago University of Chicago Press 1990 p 148 Sears David O Jack Citrin 1985 Tax Revolt Something for Nothing in California Enlarged ed Cambridge MA Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674868359 OCLC 786934617 Erikson Robert S Laura Stoker 2011 Caught in the draft The effects of Vietnam draft lottery status on political attitudes American Political Science Review 105 2 221 237 doi 10 1017 s0003055411000141 S2CID 146777226 David O Sears and Carolyn L Funk 1990 Self Interest in Americans Political Opinions Archived 2010 07 12 at the Wayback Machine In J J Mansbridge Ed Beyond Self Interest Chicago University of Chicago Press 1990 p 170 a b Kinder Donald R David O Sears 1981 Prejudice and Politics Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to the Good Life PDF Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40 3 414 431 doi 10 1037 0022 3514 40 3 414 Archived from the original PDF on September 6 2012 Sears David O P J Henry 2005 Over Thirty Years Later A Contemporary Look at Symbolic Racism PDF Vol 37 pp 95 130 doi 10 1016 s0065 2601 05 37002 x ISBN 9780120152377 Archived from the original PDF on July 11 2010 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help Sears David O Colette Van Laar Mary Carrilo Rick Kosterman 1997 Is it really racism The origins of White Americans opposition to race targeted politics PDF Public Opinion Quarterly 61 1 16 53 doi 10 1086 297785 Archived from the original PDF on July 12 2010 McConahay John B 1986 Modern racism ambivalence and the modern racism scale In Dovidio John Gaertner Samuel L eds Prejudice Discrimination and Racism Orlando FL Academic Press OCLC 13559866 Kinder Donald R Lynn M Sanders 1996 Divided by Color Racial politics and democratic ideals Chicago IL University of Chicago Press OCLC 33819409 Biernat Monica Christian S Crandall 1999 Racial attitudes In Robinson J P Shaver P R Wrightsman L S eds Measures of Political Attitudes San Diego CA Academic Press OCLC 40865533 Sears David O Racial Resentment at Its Root The New York Times Retrieved December 5 2012 Sears David O Study shows UCLA s diversity helps reduce racial bias UCLA Today Archived from the original on October 22 2011 Retrieved December 5 2012 External links editProfile on the UCLA Psychology Department website Profile on the UCLA Political Science Department website Profile on the Social Psychology Network website WorldCat Works by or about David O Sears David O Sears published articles and book chapters Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David O Sears amp oldid 1179849107, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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