Updated on August 23, 2024

Research Interests

Genetics of political attitudes and behaviors

Implicit cognitive processes and politics

Chronobiology and politics

Attitudes towards genetics and genetic research

Publications

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Jung, S., Schneider, S., Qian, J., Betchley, J., & Gunter, C.A. (forthcoming). Development and psychometric evaluation of a new genetic attitudes questionnaire in two national samples of United States residents. Scientific Reports 15, Article 34860. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10418-y

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Friesen, A., Dawes, C., & Weinschenk, A. (2025). Genetics and Politics: Trait Foundations, Technological Advances, Health & Privacy. In E.C. Busby, C.K. Karpowitz, & C.J. Wong (Eds.). Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology, Elgar Publishing. doi.org/10.4337/9781803924830.00029

van Ditmars, M., & Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2024). The gender gap in political interest: interplay of genes and gendered socialization? Politics and the Life Sciences 43(2): 152-166. doi.org/10.1017/pls.2023.16

Rasmussen, S.H.R., Weinschenk, A., Ksiazkiewicz, A., von Bornemann Hjelmborg, J., Nørgaard, A.S., Klemmensen, R. (2024). Genetic and environmental influences on the stability of political attitudes. Personality and Individual Differences 229, Article 112777. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112777

Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2022). Sleeping Giant: A Research Agenda for Politics and Chronobiology. Politics and the Life Sciences 41(2): 298-302. doi.org/10.1017/pls.2022.16

Friesen, A., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & McDermott, R. (2022). Introduction to Special Issue- Life Science in Politics: Methodological Innovations and Political Issues. Politics and the Life Sciences 41(2): 155-160. doi.org/10.1017/pls.2022.17

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Erol, F. (2022). Linking Sleep, Political Ideology, and Religious Observance: A Multi-National Comparison. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 34(3): 1-16. doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edac020

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Erol, F. (2022). Too Tired to Vote: A Multi-National Comparison of Election Turnout with Sleep Preferences and Behaviors. Electoral Studies 78, Article 102491. doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102491

Jung, S. & Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2022). Dual Citizenship and State Attachment. Politics, Groups, and Identities 10(2): 295-314. doi:10.1080/21565503.2020.1789884

Friesen, A., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Gothreau, C. (2021). Political Taste: Exploring how perception of bitter substances may reveal risk tolerance and political preferences. Politics and the Life Sciences 40(2): 152-171. doi:10.1017/pls.2021.20

Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2021). Political Ideology and Diurnal Associations: A Dual-Process Motivated Social Cognition Account. Politics and the Life Sciences 40(1): 56-71. doi:10.1017/pls.2021.4

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Friesen, A. (2021). The Higher Power of Religiosity over Personality on Political Ideology. Political Behavior 43(2): 637-661. doi:10.1007/s11109-019-09566-5

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Klemmensen, R., Dawes, C., Christensen, K., McGue, M., Krueger, R., & Nørgaard, A. (2020). Sources of Stability in Social and Economic Ideological Orientations: Cohort, Context, and Construct Effects. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 32(4): 711-730. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edz047

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Friesen, A. (2020). Slimy worms or sticky kids: How caregiving tasks and traditional gender roles challenge the gender gap on disgust response. Politics and the Life Sciences 39(Special Issue 2): 167-186. doi:10.1017/pls.2020.21

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Jung, S. (2020). The Biology of Political Decision Making. In D.P. Redlawsk (Ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.960

Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2020). Conservative Larks, Liberal Owls: The Relationship between Chronotype and Political Ideology. Journal of Politics, 82(1): 367-371. doi:10.1086/705927

Vitriol, J., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Farhart, C. (2018). Implicit Candidate Traits in the 2016 Presidential Election: Replicating a Dual-Process Model of Candidate Evaluations. Electoral Studies, 54: 261-268. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2018.04.009

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Vitriol, J., & Farhart, C. (2018). Implicit Candidate-Trait Associations in Political Campaigns. Political Psychology, 39(1): 177-195. doi:10.1111/pops.12398

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Krueger, R. (2017). The Role of Genes and Environments in Linking the Need to Evaluate with Political Ideology and Political Extremity. Social Justice Research, 30(4): 381-407. doi:10.1007/s11211-017-0292-3

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Friesen, A. (2017). Genes and Politics. In S.A. Peterson & A. Somit (Eds.) Handbook of Biology and Politics, Elgar Publishing.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Ludeke, S., & Krueger, R. (2016). The Role of Cognitive Style in the Link between Genes and Political Ideology. Political Psychology, 37(6): 761-776. doi:10.1111/pops.12318

Friesen, A. & Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2015). Do Political Attitudes and Religiosity Share a Genetic Path? Political Behavior, 37(4): 791-818. doi:10.1007/s11109-014-9291-3

Chen, P.G., Appleby, J., Borgida, E., Callaghan, T.H., Ekstrom, P., Farhart, C.F., Housholder, E., Kim, H., Ksiazkiewicz, A., Lavine, H., Luttig, M.D., Mohanty, R., Rosenthal, A., Sheagley, G., Smith, B.A., Vitriol, J.A., & Williams, A. (2014). The Minnesota Multi-Investigator 2012 Presidential Election Panel Study. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 14(1): 78-104. doi:10.1111/asap.12041

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Hedrick, J. (2013). An Introduction to Implicit Attitudes in Political Science Research. PS: Political Science and Politics, 46(3): 525-531. doi:10.1017/S1049096513000632

Ksiazkiewicz, A. (2013). Implicit Political Knowledge. PS: Political Science and Politics, 46(3): 553-555. doi:10.1017/S104909651300067X

Book Under Contract

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Erol, F. Sleepy Citizenship: The Biopolitics of Rest in American Democracy. (with Oxford University Press for the Series in Political Psychology)

Current Working Papers (August 2024)

Erol, F. & Ksiazkiewicz, A. Where you stand depends on when you sleep: A random intercept cross lagged panel model analysis of chronotype and political ideology.

Erol, F., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Micatka, N. Waking up to Politics: How Sleep Quality Relates to Political Participation.

Farhart, C., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Vitriol, J. Who Do You Really Like? Implicit Candidate-Trait Associations in U.S. Democratic Primaries.

Kaplan, Y., Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Waismel-Manor, I. Sleeping politics off: The effect of sleep duration on political participation and attitudes.

Ksiazkiewicz, A. & Pryor, M. Why are conservatives (and voters) happier? Life satisfaction and the politics of sleep and health.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., & Steur, J. Chrononormativity: A New Construct with Implications for Social Norms and Prejudice.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Britzman, K., & Cho, J. The Politics of Early Birds and Night Owls: An Analysis of Congressional Twitter Accounts.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Jung, S., Schneider, S., Qian, J., Betchley, S., & Gunter, C.A. A New Genomic Security and Privacy Questionnaire.

Ksiazkiewicz, A., Schneider, S., Qian, J., & Gunter, C. Ideology, Privacy Concerns, and Participation in Genomics Research.

Qian, J., Kaplan, B., Li, A.M., Schneider, S., Xu, X., Gunter, C.A., & Ksiazkiewicz, A. Genetic Testing as Apps.

Qian, J., Ksiazkiewicz, A., Schneider, S., Betchley, J., & Gunter, C.A. Exploring User Perspectives on Genetic Home Testing.