The survey was designed and carried out by Mark Tessler and Francy Luna Diaz of the University of Michigan and Amnon Cavari, associate professor of Political Science at Reichman University in Israel.

The [research] brief, published by the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, focuses on the degree of agreement with two negative stereotypes about Jewish, Muslim, and Black Americans, respectively, which is not the same for the three groups; how responses pertaining to stereotypes are associated with differing levels of education, and how agreement with stereotypes across groups is correlated.

Mark Tessler is Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science. He specializes in Comparative Politics and Middle East Studies. He has studied and/or conducted field research in Tunisia, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza). He is one of the very few American scholars to have attended university and lived for extended periods in both the Arab world and Israel. He has also spent several years teaching and consulting in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Francy Luna Diaz is ABD in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on public opinion and behavior, political psychology, political communication, transnationalism, social media, misinformation, and Latine politics. In her book-style dissertation, she proposes a novel theory to explain Latino political behavior by examining the influence of transnationalism on political attitudes and exposure to social media misinformation. She employs mixed methods, drawing from quantitative survey data and qualitative in-depth interviews.

Amnon Cavari is a Visiting Associate Professor at QMSS. Prof. Cavari is an Associate Professor and head of the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at the Lauder School of Government at Reichman University in Israel. His research focuses on the inter-relationship between political elites and public opinion in the United States and in Israel.