Howard Lavine is Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology. He is author of Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution (2017) and The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (2012), which won the Robert E. Lane and David O. Sears Book Awards. He is editor of Advances in Political Psychology.

Charles S. Taber is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991, and works in the fields of political psychology and computational modeling. Taber has contributed to the growing literature on the psychological mechanisms that drive public opinion, and his 2013 book, The Rationalizing Voter, coauthored with Milton Lodge, won the Robert E. Lane Book Award and the Book of the Year Awards from the Experimental Politics and Migration and Citizenship Sections of the American Political Science Association.

Foreword [Jeffrey A. Segal] 1. A Festschrift for a Friend [Howard Lavine and Charles S. Taber] 2. Conversations about The Rationalizing Voter [Charles S. Taber] 3. Inside the Black Box with Milt, and Other Lessons Learned [Kathleen M. McGraw] 4. Citizens, Politics, and Process: The Extensive Reach of Milton Lodge [Robert Huckfeldt] 5. The Paradox of Political Knowledge [Jennifer Jerit and Caitlin Davies] 6. Political Expertise and Open-Minded Cognition [Victor Ottati, Chase Wilson, Erika Price, and Nathanael Sumaktoyo] 7. Belief Change: A Bayesian Perspective [Marco R. Steenbergen and Howard Lavine] 8. Motivated Responses to Political Communications: Framing, Party Cues, and Science Information [James N. Druckman, Thomas J. Leeper, and Rune Slothuus] 9. The Effects of First Impressions on Subsequent Information Search and Evaluation [David P. Redlawsk and Douglas Pierce] 10. Racially Motivated Reasoning [Stanley Feldman and Leonie Huddy] 11. All in the Eye of the Beholder: Asymmetry in Ideological Accountability [Gaurav Sood and Shanto Iyengar] 12. (Working toward) Affective Transfer in the Real World [Tessa M. Ditonto and Richard R. Lau]