Political Psychology Situations, Individuals, and Cases

Name: Political Psychology Situations, Individuals, and Cases
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ISBN: 9780415990141

ISBN-10: 0415990149

ISBN-13: 9780415990141

Edition: 2009

Authors: David P. Houghton, David Houghton, David Patrick Houghton

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What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup-beliefs, values, and so on-of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases provides a concise, readable, and conceptually-organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question.Using this situationism-dispositionism frameworkwhich roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychologythis book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism, obedience, personality, groupthink, cognition,…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Preface


Introduction



The Conceptual Scheme of This Book



A Brief History of the Discipline



The Situation



Behaviorism and Human Freedom



The Psychology of Obedience



Creating a "Bad Barrel"



Group Decision-Making



The Individual



Psychobiography



Personality and Beliefs



Cognition



Affect and Emotion



Neuroscience



Bringing the Two Together



The Psychology of Voting Behavior



The Psychology of Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Genocide



The Psychology of Racism and Political Intolerance



The Psychology of Terrorism



The Psychology of International Relations



Conclusion: A Personal View


Notes


Index