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Isaac Mehlhaff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. His research is driven by substantive questions in public opinion and political psychology: How and why do citizens change their attitudes on political issues? How do these attitude changes drive mass polarization? How is polarization causally related to other features of government and society? As a computational social scientist, he answers these questions by using and developing rigorous methods in natural language processing, Bayesian statistics, and causal inference, with a particular focus on high-quality measurement. He received his PhD in 2023 from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds an MA from UNC-Chapel Hill and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.