David O'Keefe Sears

David O. Sears is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science, former Dean of Social Sciences, and current Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at UCLA. Sears has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a past president (1992) of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and the International Society of Political Psychology (1994-95). His books include Public Opinion (with Robert E. Lane), The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot (with John B. McConahay), Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (with Jack Citrin), Political Cognition (edited with Richard R. Lau), Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America (edited with Jim Sidanius and Lawrence Bobo), Social Psychology (12 editions, currently co-authored with Shelley E. Taylor and L. Anne Peplau), and the Handbook of Political Psychology (edited with Leonie Huddy and Robert Jervis). His most recent book is Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (with Michael Tesler, 2010). In 2002 he received the Warren E. Miller Prize from the American Political Science Association.