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"This book will be indispensable to any serious student of political psychology. The editors, themselves among the most prominent schoalrs in the field, have brought together a first-rate lineup of authors. Not only are the chapters comprehensive, but they offer [many] ideas for future research. More than anything else, this reader says that political psychology has a bright future."--James H. Kuklinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments xi
I. Interdisciplinary Cross-Fertilization
1. An Overview of the Field of Political Psychology / Shanto Iyengar 3
2. The Poly-Psy Relationship: Three Phases of a Long Affair / William J.McGuire 9
3. Psychohistory and Political Psychology: A Comparative Analysis / William McKinley Runyan 36
II. Attitudes and Behavior
4. Political Perception / Donald Granberg 70
5. Symbolic Politics: A Socio-Psychological Theory / David O. Sears 113
6. Nonverbal Behavior and Leadership: Emotion and Cognition in Political Information Processing / Roger D. Masters and Denis G. Sullivan 150
7. The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective / James Sidanius 183
III. Information Processing and Cognition
8. Inside the Mental Voting Booth: An Impression-Driven Process Model of Candidate Evaluation / Milton Lodge and Patrick Stroh 225
9. Political Information Processing / Robert S. Wyer, Jr., and Victor C. Ottati 264
10. Affect and Political Judgment / Victor C. Ottati and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. 296
IV. Decision Making and Choice
11. Information and Electoral Attitudes: A Case of Judgment Under Uncertainty / Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar 321
12. The Drunkard's Search / Robert Jervis 338
13. Decision Making in Presidential Primaries / Samuel L. Popkin 361
14. Cognitive Structural Analysis of Political Rhetoric: Methodological and Theoretical Issues / Philip E. Tetlock 380
References 407
Index 467
Contributors 483
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Shanto Iyengar is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
William J. McGuire is Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
