Academic Minute University of Colorado Boulder http://wamc.org en Dr. Leaf Van Boven, University of Colorado Boulder – Political Polarization http://wamc.org/post/dr-leaf-van-boven-university-colorado-boulder-political-polarization <p>In today&rsquo;s Academic Minute, Dr. Leaf Van Boven of the University of Colorado Boulder explains the gap between the perception of political polarization and reality.<br /><br />Leaf Van Boven is an associate professor of social psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. <a href="http://psych.colorado.edu/~edji/EDJI/Welcome.html">His lab</a>&nbsp; investigates the everyday interrelations between emotion, decisions, and judgments and people&#39;s intuitions about those interrelations. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University.</p> Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 Bradley Cornelius 38715 at http://wamc.org Dr. Leaf Van Boven, University of Colorado Boulder – Political Polarization