Rose McDermott
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations
Rose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford University and has taught at Cornell, UCSB and Harvard. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of four books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.
I work on a wide variety of different topics. Current projects include research into the effects of post truth on democratic processes, the effect of narcissism on mass political behavior and work on the determinants and effects of assortative mating on political attitudes and behaviors, pandemic disease and suicide in the military. I am also conducting a long term cross country series of embedded experiments on attitudes toward gender inequality across domains.
Hatemi, Peter K., Lopez, Anthony C., and McDermott, Rose (October 24, 2017). 'Blunt Not the Heart, Enrage It': The Psychology of Revenge and Deterrence. Texas National Security Review.
Bar-Joseph, Uri & McDermott, Rose (2017). Intelligence
Successes and Failure: The Human Factor. New York: Oxford University Press.
Glowacki L, Isakov A, Wrangham R, McDermott, R., Fowler J & Christakis N. Key individuals and friendship networks facilitate high-risk collective action in inter-group violence (October 10, 2016). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hatemi, Peter K., Charles Crabtree & McDermott, Rose (January 15, 2017) Sexual Preferences and Political Ideology: Does Performance in the Bedroom Predict Performance in the Ballot Box?” Personality and Individual Differences
McDermott, Rose & Hatemi, Peter K (May 31, 2016). The Relationship Between Physical Aggression, Foreign Policy and Moral Choices: Phenotypic and Genetic Findings. Aggressive Behavior
McDermott, Rose, Lopez,Anthony & Hatemi, Peter K. (2016) An Evolutionary Approach to Political Leadership. Security Studies 25(4), 677-698
Hatemi, Peter K. & McDermott, Rose (2016). Give Me Attitudes. Annual Review of Political Science, 331-350.
McDermott, R. (2015). Sex and Death: Gender Differences in Aggression and Motivation for Violence. International Organization, 1-23
PLCY 2070 Decision Making
POLS 0400 Introduction to International Relations
POLS 1821P Political Psychology in International Relations
POLS 1821M War in Film and Literature
POLS 1823G Woman and War
POLS 1550 War and Politics
POLS 1560 American Foreign Policy
PLCY 2735 Women and Nations
POLS 2000 Strategies of Inquiry and Research Design
October 15, 2018 Los Angeles Times
Professor Rose McDermott says younger women are more sensitive to perceived harassment than older ones. “How we draw the line between inappropriate or patronizing behavior and genuine harassment is really challenging because women themselves don’t agree...Those in-between spaces are getting harder to negotiate.”
July 17, 2018 Pass Blue
The WomenStats Project links the status of women to the security and behavior of countries, offering insights into women's lives all over the world. The database helped uphold a ban on polygyny in Canada when Professor Rose McDermott submitted empirical research that used WomenStats numbers to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
April 20, 2018 News from Brown
Among the winners of the annual award program is Professor Rose McDermott, who "earned a Distinguished Research Achievement Award for her pioneering scholarship, including in the area of political psychology, and her innovative interdisciplinary work across political science, international relations, psychology and behavioral genetics."
December 5, 2017 Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
Professor Rose McDermott joined Long Now's The Interval podcast to explain how the genetics and the enviornment contribute to political opinions.
August 31, 2017 OZY
In an op-ed published Thursday, political scientist Rose McDermott reassured that the skills students learn in the social sciences and the humanities will be even more essential as we head into a technological world.
August 11, 2017 OZY
Article by Rose McDermott, professor of international relations, who posits that the growing ability to choose our dating partners based partly on their political ideology, via dating websites and apps, may lead to an increasingly polarized body politic, with fewer chances for compromise.
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Meet the Author, Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy