Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

by Sears, David O.; Huddy, Leonie; Jervis, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195152203
• ISBN10: 0195152204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book will be a comprehensive, contemporary, cumulative, and international reference work for the field of political psychology. On the broadest level, political psychology is an application of what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. The topics covered will build up from the individual level (attitudes, values, decision making, ideology, personality) to the collective (group identity, mass mobilization, political violence), span models of the mass public and political elites, and cover both domestic issues, international relations, and foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
The Psychologies Underlying Political Psychology	p. 3
Theoretical Approaches
Models of Decision-Making	p. 19
Childhood and Adult Political Development	p. 60
Personality and Political Behavior	p. 110
Evolutionary Approaches to Political Psychology	p. 146
The Psychology of Emotion and Politics	p. 182
Political Rhetoric	p. 222
International Relations
Political Psychology and Foreign Policy	p. 253
Image Theory and Strategic Interaction in International Relations	p. 285
Conflict Analysis and Resolution	p. 315
Mass Political Behavior
Communication and Politics in the Age of Information	p. 357
Political Impressions: Formation and Management	p. 394
Information Processing and Public Opinion	p. 433
Values, Ideology, and the Structure of Political Attitudes	p. 477
Intergroup Relations
Group Identity and Political Cohesion	p. 511
Prejudice and Intergroup Hostility	p. 559
Theorizing Gender in Political Psychology Research	p. 601
Political Change
Education and Democratic Citizenship in a Changing World	p. 637
Collective Political Action	p. 670
Genocide, Mass Killing and Intractable Conflict: Roots, Evolution, Prevention, and Reconciliation	p. 710
Epilogue
Rescuing Political Science from Itself	p. 755
Index	p. 795
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