Gail Sahar

Gail Sahar is a Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, where she teaches courses on social psychology, political psychology, and statistics. . Her research focuses on attitudes toward controversial social issues, such as poverty, abortion, and terrorism. She is particularly interested in how ideologies or worldviews influence perceptions of responsibility and blame for social problems and how blame is linked with emotions and political attitudes.

Gail earned her PhD at UCLA and her BA at the University of Southern California. Her interest in controversial social issues began long before her college years, however. Since her childhood in rural Washington state, she has been fascinated by how intelligent people can have such drastically diverging opinions on the issues of the day and hoped to find ways to bridge the gap between ideological opposites.

She lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and their dog. She enjoys hiking, traveling, reading, cooking, and music.