Dr. Lisa P. Argyle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, and an associate co-PI for the Cooperative Election Studies.  She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2016.  Dr. Argyle blends political psychology with computational social science to study political attitudes and participation in the United States. Her main area of research focuses on understanding how and why people have political conversations with each other in the course of their everyday lives. She is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between political conversations and rising political polarization and incivility.  In addition to pioneering work on the role of large language models in social science research, she uses surveys, experiments, and text analysis in her work.