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Rose McDermott

Rose McDermott

rose_mcdermott@brown.edu
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Rose McDermott

Director of Postdoctoral Program
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations

Biography

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 works in the areas of political psychology. She received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford University and has also taught at Cornell and UCSB. 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, and has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of five books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines.

Research

I work on a wide variety of different topics. Current projects include a large series of survey experiments examining nine types of attitudes toward gender inequality in over 20 countries. I am participating in several projects related to nuclear weapons, leadership and the stability of deterrence. More broadly, I work on topics including international relations, American Foreign and Defense policy, nuclear  strategy,  experimentation, leadership, ethics,  gender, identity, intelligence, cybersecurity, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors.  

Publications

McDermott,  Rose.   Robert Jervis: A reminiscence. War on the Rocks

McDermott, Rose.   Robert Jervis: Academic Silverback.  H-Diplo  

McDermott, Rose (forthcoming) Breaking Free: How Pre-registration hurts Scholars and Science. Politics and the Life Sciences

Glowacki, Luke & McDermott, Rose (forthcoming).  Key individuals catalyze intergroup conflict.  For special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biology.  Guest Editor: Carsten de Dreu. 

McDermott, R.(2022)   Commentary on Commentary on Gries, Muller, & Jost’s “The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice..  Psychological  Inquiry

McDermott, Rose & Hatemi, Peter K.  (Nov.16. 2020) Ethics in Field Experimentation: A Call to Establish New Standards to Protect the Public from Unwanted Manipulation and Real Harms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

McDermott, R. & Hatemi, P. (December 3, 2020).  Revenge is a dish best served Nuclear: We must prepare for Revenge, not Rationality. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

McDermott, Rose (2020). Trump’s covid diagnosis and Presidential Illness.  Politics and Life Sciences.  

Davis, James & McDermott, R. (2020). The Past, Present, and Future of Behavioral IR International Organization 

Hatemi, Peter K. & McDermott, Rose (2020). The influence of everyday dispositional Fear on political Ideology.  Human Nature

McDermott, Rose. (September 2, 2019).    Making America Less. Nature Human Behavior. 

McDermott, Rose (Dec. 11, 2019). Emotional dynamics in cyberconflict. Journal of Cyber Policy

McDermott, R.   (2019). The role of gender in political violence.  Special issue on Political Ideologies in Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences.  Edited by John Jost, Eran Halperin & Kristin Lauren. 

McDermott, Rose (2019).  Political Science’s #metoo moment. Journal of Women, Politics and Policy.  Special issue edited by Nadia Brown.

McDermott, Rose.  Leader’s Emotional Manipulation of Political Identity: An Evolutionary Perspective. (2019). Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on the Evolution and Biology of Leadership (Guest editors: Mark Van Vugt and Chris von Rueden). 

McDermott, Rose.  (2019).  Psychological Underpinnings of Post-Truth in Political Beliefs. PS

McDermott, R. (K. Monroe, Ed.) (2018).  The Evils of Polygyny: The David Easton Lectures by Rose McDermott.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 

McDermott, Rose (2018). The Nature of Narcissism. For H-Diplo. https://issforum.org/roundtables/policy/1-5BE-Narcissism 

McDermott, Rose.(2018)  Coalitional Rivalry May Hurt in Trade, but Help in War: Commentary on Boyer & Petersen.  Behavior and Brain Sciences

Teaching

POLS  0400 Introduction to International Relations 

IAPA 0600 Foundations of Security

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

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Can the 25th Amendment Save Democracy?

January 8, 2021

Rose McDermott is the author of "Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making", and regularly comments on presidential health and power. Most recently her work has appeared in Vox, the Atlantic, and the Economic Times. Following the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, we asked her to provide additional analysis of the history and potential application of the 25th Amendment.

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