Professor Arthur Lupia will be your guide for this Teach-Out on Finding Common Ground.

Arthur Lupia is the Hal R Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science. He examines how people make decisions when they lack information and in how they manage complex information flows. He draws from multiple scientific and philosophical disciplines and uses multiple research methods.

His topics of expertise include information processing, persuasion, strategic communication, and civic competence. He has held a range of scientific leadership positions including Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies. Dr. Lupia also has developed new means for researchers to better serve science and society.

As a founder of TESS (Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences), he has helped hundreds of scientists from many disciplines run innovative experiments on opinion formation and change using nationally representative subject pools. He helped to design the EITM Summer Institutes and currently serves as its lead PI. He is regularly asked to advise scientific organizations and research groups on how to effectively communicate science in politicized contexts.

He currently serves Chair of the National Academy of Science's Roundtable of the Application of Social and Behavioral Science Research, is an executive member of the Board of Directors of Climate Central and is on the Advisory Board of the National Academies' Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education. He is past Chair of the Division of Social. Economic, and Political Sciences at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He has also received multiple honors including the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association, and National Academy of Sciences' Award for Initiatives in Research. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is one of the inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows. His newest book is “Uninformed: Why People Know So Little About Politics and What We Can Do About It” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).