David Patrick Houghton

Political Psychology (eBook, PDF)

Situations, Individuals, and Cases

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. This text provides a concise, readable, and conceptually-organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question.

Using this situationism-dispositionism framework-which roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychology-this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism, obedience, personality, groupthink, cognition, affect, emotion, and neuroscience to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations.

Houghton's clear and engaging examples directly challenge students to place themselves in both real and hypothetical situations which involve intense moral and political dilemmas. This highly readable text will provide students with the conceptual foundation they need to make sense of the rapidly changing and increasingly important field of political psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135855499
• Artikelnr.: 43074194

Autorenporträt

David Patrick Houghton is a British-American academic and a retired Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. His other books include The Decision Point (Oxford University Press, 2012), A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2013), and U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He has also published academic articles in a wide array of outlets, including Political Psychology, The British Journal of Political Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part I: Introduction 1. Studying Political Psychology 2. Two
Conceptual Schemes 3. A Brief History of the Discipline Part II:
Dispositionism 4. Behaviorism and Human Freedom 5. Obedience and
Authoritarianism 6. Creating a 'Bad Barrel' 7. Group Decision-Making Part
III: Situationism 8. Psychobiography 9. Personality and Beliefs 10.
Cognition 11. Affect and Emotion 12. Neuroscience, Biology and Genetics
Part IV: Bringing the Two Together 13. The Psychology of Electoral Choice
14. The Psychology of Political Communication, Persuasion, and the Mass
Media 15. The Psychology of Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and 'Cults' 16.
The Psychology of Terrorism 17. The Psychology of Racism and Political
Intolerance 18. The Psychology of Foreign Policy and International Conflict
Part V: Conclusions 19. The Future of Political Psychology