Rose M. McDermott

Rose McDermott is the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University. She received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford University and has also taught at Cornell and UCSB.  She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University, and has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of five books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over two hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as gender, experimentation, national security intelligence, social identity, cybersecurity, emotion and decision-making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.

As a political psychologist working in the area of international relations, she has been particularly interested in using experiments to explore the underlying sources of sex differences in aggression and violence. She has worked extensively on issues of decision making, particularly in the domains of emotion, identity, and risk taking. In 2012 she served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology. She also served as a Council member of the American Political Science Association in 2008-10.