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Research at Stony Brook: Political Science in a Biobehavioral Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

D. Calvin Andrus*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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Political behavior, like all human behavior, can be studied using the S–O–R paradigm, where S is a particular stimulus, 0 is the human organism, and R is a response or behavior (cf. Tursky, Lodge, and Cross, 1976). Here at the Laboratory for Behavioral Research at Stony Brook we are currently conducting research projects that investigate each of these components of the paradigm and the interactions among them. Before reviewing these projects, however, I will briefly describe our laboratory facilities.

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Research in Progress
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