Dr. LJ Zigerell Jr
Associate Professor/Assessment Director
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall
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Biography
L.J Zigerell is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. L.J's current research activities involve the study of race and sex discrimination and beliefs about inequalities.
Current Courses
POL 497.001 Introduction To Research Methodology
POL 138.001 Quantitative Reasoning In Political Science
POL 138.005 Quantitative Reasoning In Political Science
POL 138.006 Quantitative Reasoning In Political Science
Teaching Interests & Areas
Judicial politics. Constitutional law. Legal thinking. Research methods
Research Interests & Areas
Race and sex bias. Researcher bias
Ph D Political Science
University of Pittsburgh
Other Teaching and Curriculum
Penn State Harrisburg
BS Engineering
Geneva College
Pi Sigma Alpha Excellence in Teaching Award
2022
Hibbert R. Roberts Teaching Excellence Recognition Award
2020
Pi Sigma Alpha Excellence in Teaching Award
2020
Book, Chapter
Publication bias in the social sciences: A threat to scientific integrity
Neil Malhotra, LJ Zigerell.
(2022), Research Integrity: Best Practices for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford University Press
Maintaining the Technological Neutrality of the Fourth Amendment
LJ Zigerell.
(2015), Privacy in the Digital Age: 21st-century Challenges to the Fourth Amendment
Intense Ambivalence: Report on the 2006 and 2008 ANES Abortion Attitudes Measures
LJ Zigerell, Heather Marie Rice.
(2011), Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies, Princeton University Press
Journal Article
Comments on Cassese and Holman 2019
LJ Zigerell.
Meta-Psychology, 9, (2025)
Estimating the Effect of Positivity About Immigrants on Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
LJ Zigerell.
Nations and Nationalism, (2025)
Ordering Effects in Stereotype Scales
LJ Zigerell.
Journal of Experimental Political Science, (2025)
Racial Bias and U.S. Presidential Candidate Preference
LJ Zigerell.
The Forum, 21 (4), 597-608, (2024)
Introducing Political Science Students to Data Visualization Strategies
LJ Zigerell.
Journal of Political Science Education, (2022)
Did Brett Kavanaugh's overt partisanship cause severe harm to the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court?
LJ Zigerell.
Social Science Quarterly, (2021)
Perceived Discrimination against Black Americans and White Americans
LJ Zigerell.
Meta-Psychology, 5, MP.2019.1778, (2021)
Reply to 'Powerless Conservatives or Powerless Findings?'
LJ Zigerell.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 54 (2), 270, (2021)
Technical comment on: Schneider, SP, Gonzalez, FJ (2021). 'Racial resentment predicts eugenics support more robustly than genetic attributions' Personality and Individual Differences, 180: 110989
LJ Zigerell.
Personality and Individual Differences, 180, 111113, (2021)
US Public Perceptions of an Intelligence Quotient Test Score Gap between Black Americans and White Americans
LJ Zigerell.
Political Studies Review, Online first, (2020)
Critical comment on “Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage”
LJ Zigerell.
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42 (13), 2270-2271, (2019)
Left Unchecked: Political Hegemony in Political Science and the Flaws It Can Cause
LJ Zigerell.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 54 (2), 720-723, (2019)
Understanding public support for eugenic policies: Results from survey data
LJ Zigerell.
The Social Science Journal, (2019)
Black and White Discrimination in the United States: Evidence from an Archive of Survey Experiment Studies
LJ Zigerell.
Research & Politics, 5 (1), (2018)
Developing Standards for Post-Hoc Weighting in Population-Based Survey Experiments
Annie Franco, Neil Malhotra, Gabor Simonovits, L.J Zigerell.
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 4 (2), 161-172, (2017)
Potential Publication Bias in the Stereotype Threat Literature: Comment on Nguyen and Ryan (2008)
LJ Zigerell.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 102 (8), 1159-1168, (2017)
Reducing Political Bias in Political Science Estimates
LJ Zigerell.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 50 (1), 179-183, (2017)
Distinguishing Racism from Ideology: A Methodological Inquiry
LJ Zigerell.
Political Research Quarterly, 68, 521-536, (2015)
Inferential Selection Bias in a Study of Racial Bias: Revisiting 'Working Twice as Hard to Get Half as Far'
LJ Zigerell.
Research & Politics, 2 (1), 1-6, (2015)
Is the Gender Citation Gap in International Relations Driven by Elite Papers?
LJ Zigerell.
Research & Politics, April/June, 1-7, (2015)
Justice Has Served: US Supreme Court Justice Retirement Strategies
LJ Zigerell.
Justice System Journal, 34, 208-227, (2013)
Rookie Mistakes: Preemptive Comments on Graduate Student Empirical Research Manuscripts
LJ Zigerell.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 46, 142-146, (2013)
Don't Know Much about Democracy: Reporting Survey Data with Non-Substantive Responses
Jonathan Reilly, LJ Zigerell.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 45, 462-467, (2012)
Science Knowledge and Biblical Literalism
LJ Zigerell.
Public Understanding of Science, 21, 314-322, (2012)
Midpoint Misperceptions on 1-to-10 Scales
LJ Zigerell.
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 23, 205-213, (2011)