Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology

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

• ISBN13: 9780195162202
• ISBN10: 019516220X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how, for example, people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and makeforeign policy decisions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology gathers together a distinguished group of scholars from around the world to shed light on such questions as: how does personality affect leadership style? What are the origins of racial prejudice? How does violent communal conflict originate? Focusing first on political psychology at the individual level (attitudes, values, decision-making, ideology, personality) and then moving to the collective (group identity, mass mobilization, political violence), this fully interdisciplinary volume covers models of the mass public and politicalelites and addresses both domestic issues and foreign policy.Providing an up-to-date account of cutting-edge research within both psychology and political science, this is an essential reference for scholars and students interested in the intersection of the two fields.

Author Biography

David O. Sears is Professor of Psychology and Political Science and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA. Leonie Huddy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
1. The Psychologies underlying Political Psychology	3	(16)
David O. Sears, Leonie Huddy, and Robert Jervis
Theoretical Approaches
2. Models of Decision-Making	19	(41)
Richard R. Lau
3. Childhood and Adult Political Development	60	(50)
David O. Sears and Sheri Levy
4. Personality and Political Behavior	110	(36)
David G. Winter
5. Evolutionary Approaches to Political Psychology	146	(36)
Jim Sidanius and Robert Kurzban
6. The Psychology of Emotion and Politics	182	(40)
George E. Marcus
7. Political Rhetoric	222	(31)
Michael Billig
International Relations
8. Political Psychology and Foreign Policy	253	(32)
Jack S. Levy
9. Image Theory and Strategic Interaction in International Relations	285	(30)
Richard K. Herrmann
10. Conflict Analysis and Resolution	315	(42)
Herbert C. Kelman and Ronald J. Fisher
Mass Political Behavior
11. Communication and Politics in the Age of Information	357	(37)
Donald R. Kinder
12. Political Impressions: Formation and Management	394	(39)
Kathleen M. McGraw
13. Information Processing and Public Opinion	433	(44)
Charles S. Taber
14. Values, Ideology, and the Structure of Political Attitudes	477	(34)
Stanley Feldman
Intergroup Relations
15. Group Identity and Political Cohesion	511	(48)
Leonie Huddy
16. Prejudice and Intergroup Hostility	559	(42)
John Duckitt
17. Theorizing Gender in Political Psychology Research	601	(36)
Virginia Sapiro
Political Change
18. Education and Democratic Citizenship in a Changing World	637	(33)
Ont Ichilov
19. Collective Political Action	670	(40)
Bert Klandermans
20. Genocide, Mass Killing and Intractable Conflict: Roots, Evolution, Prevention, and Reconciliation	710	(45)
Ervin Staub and Daniel Bar-Tal
Epilogue
21. Rescuing Political Science from Itself	755	(40)
Robert E. Lane
Index	795