Professor Stephen Vaisey is co-director of the Worldview Lab. The main goal of his research is to understand moral and political beliefs: what they are, where they come from, and what they do. He pursues these questions in the broader interdisciplinary context of cultural evolution. He has also been working on using simple patterns in repeated cross-section and panel data to help adjudicate between competing theories of cultural change and socialization.

Christopher Johnston is a co-director of the Worldview Lab. Professor Johnston teaches courses in public opinion, political behavior, and political methodology, with an emphasis on the application of psychological theory and methods to mass politics. His teaching and research examine the motivational underpinnings of political judgment and decision making. His research appears in a wide range of journals in political science, and he is co-author of The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (2012, Oxford University Press), which won book of the year in mass politics from the International Society of Political Psychology, and book of the year in political psychology from the American Political Science Association. Professor Johnston is a member of the editorial board for Advances in Political Psychology.