Margaret G. Hermann (born 1938) is an American political psychologist. Herman earned her undergraduate degree at DePauw University in 1960, and completed her master's degree and doctorate in psychology at Northwestern University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. Hermann was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health and served as visiting lecturer at Princeton University, before working at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies affiliated with Ohio State University. Hermann remained at Ohio State through 1998, when she took on the Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professorship of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs within Syracuse University. Hermann was editor of the journal Political Psychology between 1980 and 1982, and th