Dr. William Kidd
Visiting Assistant Professor
Irby Hall, Suite #217
(501) 450-3412
Educational Background:
Ph.D., Political Science – American Politics and Methods, University of California, Irvine, 2025
MA, Political Science – American Politics and Methods, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
MA, General Experimental Psychology, California State University, Northridge, 2015
BA, Psychology and Business Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
Courses:
PSCI 1330, U.S. Government & Politics
Selected Publications:
McWagner, Kyle, and William Kidd. “Affective Polarization and Anti-Democratic Attitudes: A Complex Relationship.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Forthcoming.
Kidd, William. 2025. “Partisan (A)Symmetries in Hardball: Mass Level Support of Hardball Equivalent Across Party and Race,” Public Research Quarterly, vol 78, no.1, pp. 247-263.
Kidd, William, and Joseph A. Vitriol. 2022. “Moral Leadership in the 2016 US Presidential Election.”
Political Psychology, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 583-604.
Bell, Angela C., Collette P. Eccleston, Leigh A. Bradberry, William C. Kidd, Catherine C. Mesick, and Abraham M. Rutchick. 2022. “Ingroup projection in American politics: An obstacle to bipartisanship.” Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 906-915.