Contact Information
Email
Website
615.322.6222
345 Commons Center
Office Hours
On leave - will not be holding office hours.
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University
M.A., Political Science, Duke University
Subfields
Research Networks
Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society Lab (RIPS)
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
Specializations
Political Psychology; Public Opinion; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Curriculum Vitae
Efrén O. Pérez
Assistant Professor
Faculty Affiliate, Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Lab
Faculty Affiliate, Latin American Public Opinion Project
Efrén O. Pérez (Ph.D., Duke University, 2008) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, and an affiliate of its Research on Individuals, Politics, & Society (RIPS) experimental lab. His research interests encompass political psychology and public opinion, with an emphasis on racial and ethnic politics. Pérez's current research includes a book-length project on implicit bias and U.S. immigration politics, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation; and, a comprehensive examination of language and survey response among U.S. Latinos. His research has been published in The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Behavior.
Representative publications
- Pérez, Efrén O. The Origins and Implications of Language Effects in Multilingual Surveys: A MIMIC Approach with Application to Latino Political Attitudes. Political Analysis (forthcoming).
- Pérez, Efrén O. 2010. Explicit Evidence on the Import of Implicit Attitudes: The IAT and Immigration Policy Judgments. Political Behavior 32(4): 517-545.
- Pérez, Efrén O. 2009. Lost in Translation? Item Validity in Bilingual Political Surveys. The Journal of Politics 71(4): 1530-1548.
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