Website: Beatt.ie
Qualifications
PhD (University of California Irvine)
MA (University of California Irvine)
JD (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
BA (New York University)
Awards
Exemplary Teaching Award 2020, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK
Research Interests
Political Psychology
Global Political Economy
Media Studies
International Relations
Publications
Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas, Palgrave Macmillan (2019). [Link to sample chapters] [reviews of the book]
“Book Review: Competing Economic Paradigms in China by Steven Mark Cohn,” Journal of Economic Issues (in press). [Link]
“The Merciless Mind in a Dog-Eat-Dog Society: Neoliberalism and the Indifference to Social Inequality,” (with Karim Bettache & C.Y. Chiu) Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34: 217-222 (2020). [Link]
“This Changes Everything? A Possible Future of China-U.S. Relations after Trump,” (with Ana Tomicic) Institute of Chinese Studies Occasional Papers 46: 4-35 (2020). [Link]
“Book Review: A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property by Mat Callahan and Jim Rogers (Eds.),” International Journal of Communication 14: 766–768 (2020). [Link]
“The Road to Psychopathology: Neoliberalism and the Human Mind,” Journal of Social Issues 75(1): 89-112 (2019). [Link]
“Ideology, Values and Foreign Policy.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press (2019). [Link]
“Knowledge in International Relations: One Precursor to Motivated Reasoning among Experts and Non-Experts,” (with Danielle Snider) Journal of Social and Political Psychology 7(1): 2195-3325 (2019). [Link]
“Who is the Neoliberal? Exploring Neoliberal Beliefs across East and West,” (with Karim Bettache and Kristy Chong) Journal of Social Issues 75(1): 20-48 (2019). [Link]
“Book Review: What Is Information? by Peter Janich,” International Journal of Communication 13: 1274-1277 (2019). [Link]
“The Cognitive Structuring of National Identity: Individual Differences in Identifying as American,” (with Shawn Rosenberg) Nations and Nationalism DOI: 10.1111/nana.12416 (2018). [Link]
“Theory, Media, and Democracy for Realists," Critical Review 30(1-2): 13-35 (2018). [Link]
“The Pull of Humanitarian Interventionism: Examining the Effects of Media Frames and Political Values,” (with Jovan Milojevich) International Journal of Communication 12: 831–855 (2018). [Link]
“The ‘Chicken-and-Egg’ Development of Political Opinions: The Roles of Genes, Social Status, Ideology, and Information,” Politics and the Life Sciences 36(1): 1-13 (2017). [Link]
“A Test of the ‘News Diversity’ Standard: Single Frames, Multiple Frames, and Values Regarding the Ukraine Conflict,” (with Jovan Milojevich) International Journal of Press/Politics 22(1): 3-22 (2017). [Link]
“Anti-Semitism and Opposition to Israeli Government Policies: The Roles of Prejudice and Information,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(15): 2749-2767 (2017). [Link]
“Review Essay: The Battle Over Human Nature, Coming to a Resolution,” Political Psychology 37(1): 137-143 (2016). [Link]
“Information: Evolution, Psychology, and Politics,” Papers on Social Representations 25(1): 1-40 (2016). [Link]
“The (Intellectual Property Law &) Economics of Innocent Fraud: The IP & Development Debate,”International Review of Intellectual Property & Competition Law 38: 6-30 (2007). [Link]
“The U.S., Impunity Agreements, and the International Criminal Court: Towards the Trial of a Future Henry Kissinger,” Guild Practitioner 62: 193-229 (2005). [Link]
Work in Progress
“When Left is Right and Right is Left: The psychological correlates of political ideology in China” (Under Review). [Link]
“Knowing what the electorate knows: Issue-specific knowledge and candidate choice in the 2020 elections” (Under Review). [Link]
