| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Importance of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| The Field of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| The Social Organization of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| The Core Concerns of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| The Usefulness of Taxonomies | |
| |
| |
| Human Nature and Human Politics | |
| |
| |
| Doing Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Explanation in Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Description and Explanation in Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Plan of the Book | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Brief Methodology Primer for Political Psychologists | |
| |
| |
| Explanations as Persuasion or Justification, and Explanation as Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| Generating Explanations: Theorizing | |
| |
| |
| Getting Observations: Data, Sampling and Generalization | |
| |
| |
| Surveys - Samples from a Population of Interest | |
| |
| |
| Experiments | |
| |
| |
| Other Data Collection Methodologies | |
| |
| |
| Measuring Concepts: Measurement Theory | |
| |
| |
| Forms of Relationships | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Short History of a Long Tradition | |
| |
| |
| Time | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Premodern Conceptions of Time | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Modern Time | |
| |
| |
| Emotion and Reason Shaping Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| The Modern Dilemma: The Unexpected Trajectory of Progress | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Neuroscience and Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Neuroscience and Time | |
| |
| |
| Neuroscience and Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| Neuroscience and Action | |
| |
| |
| Psychology and Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| Valence Conception | |
| |
| |
| Discrete, or Appraisal Conceptions | |
| |
| |
| Dimensional Conceptions | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| |
| Brain and Conscious Mind | |
| |
| |
| The Psychology of Mind and Brain | |
| |
| |
| Split Brain Experiments | |
| |
| |
| Time and Brain Functions | |
| |
| |
| A Provisional Beginning: The Theory of Affective Intelligence | |
| |
| |
| The Politics of Mind and Brain | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Political Action - The Uses and Limits of the Mind | |
| |
| |
| The Limits of the Mind, the Blind Spot of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| An Overview of Preconscious Appraisal and Action | |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology Wrestles with the Unconscious | |
| |
| |
| The Preconscious and Politics | |
| |
| |
| Dual Process Models - Brain and Mind | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Personality and Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| A Very Brief Historical Introduction to Personality | |
| |
| |
| Personality as Taxonomy - Personality as Types | |
| |
| |
| The Four Humors | |
| |
| |
| Modern Research on Personality | |
| |
| |
| Personality in Psychobiography | |
| |
| |
| Personality in Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Four Limitations of trait Conceptions of Personality | |
| |
| |
| Neuroscience and Personality | |
| |
| |
| Pathology and Research Agenda of Personality in Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology and Personality Going Forward | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Readings | |
| |
| |
| Resources | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology and Democratic Politics | |
| |
| |
| How Do We Know? | |
| |
| |
| How Do We Manage: Dual Process Models | |
| |
| |
| Moral Judgment | |
| |
| |
| Free Will | |
| |
| |
| The Special Challenge of Manipulation | |
| |
| |
| Rethinking Core Conceptions | |
| |
| |
| Appendix | |
| |
| |
| Critical books and articles exploring biological sources of variation in personality | |
| |
| |
| Gene Environment Interactions | |
| |
| |
| Motor Action (behavior) | |
| |
| |
| Vision | |
| |
| |
| Memory | |
| |
| |
| Seminal Pieces regarding Genes and Political Attitudes | |
| |
| |
| Applications to Political Psychology - Selected Examples | |
| |
| |
| Developmental Psychology | |
| |
| |
| Early Seminal Work on Personality | |
| |
| |
| Some Primers: Evolutionary Accounts and Probabilistic Epigenesis | |
| |
| |
| Affective Neuroscience | |
| |
| |
| Early Basics | |
| |
| |
| Recent Basics | |
| |
| |
| Consciousness and Preconsciousness | |
| |
| |
| Amygdala | |
| |
| |
| Social Neuroscience | |
| |
| |
| Behavioral Development | |
| |
| |
| Neural Development | |
| |
| |
| Decision Neuroscience | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Political Social Psychology | |
| |
| |
| |
| Using the Past and Present so as to Live in the Future | |
| |
| |
| A Brief Reprise | |
| |
| |
| Context in Political Philosophy | |
| |
| |
| Context in Psychology | |
| |
| |
| A Preliminary Consideration of Authority and Context in Politics | |
| |
| |
| A Provisional Psychological Taxonomy of Context | |
| |
| |
| Assessing the Empirical Story | |
| |
| |
| The Normative Story | |
| |
| |
| Affect and Context | |
| |
| |
| A Taxonomy of Context or a Taxonomy of Contexts | |
| |
| |
| Exercises | |
| |
| |
| |
| Conclusion: Political Psychology and Politics | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| The Limitations of Political Psychology | |
| |
| |
| An Agenda for Political Psychology (Redux) | |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology for the Young Scholar | |
| |
| |
| Choosing Research Topics | |
| |
| |
| Political Psychology for the Citizen | |
| |
| |
| Index | |