Opinion Science
Opinion Science
Andy Luttrell
#118: Making Moral Arguments with Jae-Hee Jung
54 minutes Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Jae-Hee Jung is an assistant professor at Rice University, where she studies party politics, political behavior, and political psychology in Western democracies. Her research focuses on the strategic use of moral rhetoric (i.e., appeals to fundamental notions of right and wrong) and how it shapes political competition and voter psychology. We talk about her work analyzing political manifestos, the psychological mechanisms like pride that mobilize a party's base, and the surprising finding tha...