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This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the most exciting scientific and scholarly contributions to the topic of political ideology. John Jost tackles fundamental questions about how psychology, neuroscience, and societal factors impact political attitudes and group divisions.
List of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- PART I: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT
- Chapter 1: A psychological approach to the study of political ideology
- Chapter 2: The end of the end of ideology
- Chapter 3: Elective affinities: The intersection of "top-down" "bottom-up" processes
- PART II: IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY, COGNITIVE STYLE, AND MOTIVATION
- Chapter 4: Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
- Chapter 5: The secret lives of liberals and conservatives: Dispositional and situational factors
- Chapter 6: Authoritarian aggression, group-based dominance, and the liberal conundrum
- PART III: THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Chapter 7: Ideological asymmetries and the essence of political psychology
- Chapter 8: The promise and pitfalls of political neuroscience
- Epilogue: The values of a political psychologist
About the author
John T. Jost is Professor of Psychology, Politics, and Data Science and Co-Director of the Center for Social and Political Behavior at New York University. He has received numerous awards for his research and writing, including the Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology. He has served on many editorial boards and executive committees of professional societies and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Association of Psychological Science. Professor Jost is a past President of the International Society of Political Psychology and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
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This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the most exciting scientific and scholarly contributions to the topic of political ideology. John Jost tackles fundamental questions about how psychology, neuroscience, and societal factors impact political attitudes and group divisions.
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In this book, John Jost has accomplished something extraordinary, a truly political psychology—a psychology not of self-interest or of in-group or "tribal" loyalty, but of the large-scale ideas, ideals, identities, and motivations that form the ideological frameworks within which individuals and groups situate themselves, orient thought and action, and seek justification. He makes an essential contribution to our understanding of ourselves and others, synthesizing "top down" doctrinal and structural analysis and "bottom up" affective and cognitive affinities to show the durability and explanatory power of the "Left"/"Right" division. Recent events demand such an understanding, and Jost's work should be essential reading not only for psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers, but for anyone who cares about the direction of our societies.
