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Edward Bell, Professor

PhD, Sociology, McGill University

Edward Bell is a sociologist interested in the origins of political attitudes and behaviours, and in political movements. In addition to examining the traditional antecedents of political phenomena, such as class, gender, age, and ethnicity, his work seeks to integrate the notion of heritability into analyses of politics through the use of twin and family studies.

Areas of Specialization

Selected Publications

• Christian Kandler, Jana Instinske, and Edward Bell. (2025). “Sources of Differences in Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation from Adolescence to Adulthood: A Multi-Cohort Twin Family Study.” Behavior Genetics.
• Edward Bell and Julie Aitken Schermer. (2023). "Finite disappointment, infinite hope? The association between political orientations and sources of hope." Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 4.
• Edward Bell, Alan Bryman, and Steven Kleinknecht. (2022). Social Research Methods (Sixth Canadian Edition). Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
• Edward Bell, Christopher Marcin Kowalski, Philip Anthony Vernon, and Julie Aitken Schermer. (2021). “Political hearts of darkness: The Dark Triad as predictors of political orientations and interest in politics.” Behavioral Sciences, 11.
• Edward Bell, Christopher T. Dawes, Aaron Weinschenk, Rainer Riemann, and Christian Kandler. (2020). “Patterns and Sources of the Association between Intelligence, Party Identification, and Political Orientations.” Intelligence, 81.

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