Yueqi (Lareina) Lin
Contact Information
Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Attitude Change/Persuasion
- Behavioral Intervention
- Conspiracy Theory
- Decision Making/Choice
- Political Science
- Technology
I'm a first-year Ph.D. student studying American Politics and International Relations in Department of Political Science. My current research interests center on political psychology and political behavior, with a particular focus on the roles of emotions, beliefs, and information processing in shaping attitudes toward conspiracy theories and political paranoia. I'm also interested in exploring American political culture by both theoretical and empirical approaches. Before joining Ohio State, I earned an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.A. in Social Science (MAPSS) from the University of Chicago. My master theses completed at UW are about paranoid style in politics and my master thesis for UChicago degree is about American conspiracy beliefs on international relations. Now I'm working with Professor Tom Wood here to keep investigating the science polarization and misinformation among American politics, and I intend to expand the research to an international context.