9:45-10:00am        Breakfast and coffee

10:00-10:15   Welcome

10:15-10:45   Milton Lodge – “Attitude Polarization as a Function of Motivated Reasoning”

10:45-11:15   Lilliana Mason – “Distinguishing the polarizing effects of ideology as identity, issue positions, and issue-based identity”

Discussant:  Martin Johnson

11:15-11:45   Martin Johnson – “How Mainstream News Media Can Polarize America, Too”

Discussant:  Lauren Feldman

11:45-1:00pm        Lunch

1:00-1:30        Yphtach Lelkes - “The Hostile Audience: The Effect of Access to Broadband Internet on Partisan Affect”

Discussant:  Gregory Martin

1:30-2:00        Gregory Martin - "Bias in Cable News: Real Effects and Polarization"

Discussant:  Pablo Barberá

2:00-2:30        Matt Levendusky - “No Need to Watch: How the Polarizing Effects of Partisan Media Spread via Social Networks”

Discussant:  Marc Hetherington

2:30-3:00    Break

3:00-3:30        Marc Hetherington – “The Polarization of Political Trust”

Discussant:  Yphtach Lelkes

3:30-4:00        Lauren Feldman – “Using political efficacy messages to communicate about climate change: Implications for the ideological divide”

Discussant:  Lilliana Mason

4:00-4:30        Pablo Barberá - “How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization”

Discussant:  Matt Levendusky

4:30-5:00        Markus Prior - Closing remarks and discussion of future research