The Social Psychology of Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Psychological Determinants of Candidate Evaluation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Psychological Determinants of Candidate Evaluation and Voting Preference

      • Victor C. Ottati, Robert S. Wyer, Megan Deiger, David Houston

      Pages 3-28

   3. Gender Stereotyping and Candidate Evaluation

      • Leonie Huddy, Theresa Capelos

      Pages 29-53

   4. The Emotional Voter

      • Linda M. Isbell, Victor C. Ottati

      Pages 55-74

   5. Visual Cues and the Candidate Evaluation Process

      • Victor C. Ottati, Megan Deiger

      Pages 75-87

   6. Political Eloquence

      • Daniel C. O’Connell, Sabine Kowal

      Pages 89-103

3. Political Psychology and Public Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Psychological Determinants of Public Opinion

      • Linda J. Skitka, Elizabeth Mullen

      Pages 107-134

   3. The Role of Social Ideologies in Legitimizing Political Attitudes and Public Policy

      • Felicia Pratto, Christie Cathey

      Pages 135-155

   4. The Role of Science and Advocacy Regarding a Chronic Health Condition

      • Leonard A. Jason, Renee R. Taylor, Judith A. Richman

      Pages 157-172

4. Collective Political Action: Intra- and Intergroup Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Minority Influence and Political Interest Groups

      • Christine M. Smith, Polly J. Diven

      Pages 175-192

   3. The Psychology of Collective Political Protest

      • Dominic Abrams, Georgina Randsley de Moura

      Pages 193-214

   4. Procedural and Agenda Effects on Political Decisions by Small Groups

      • Tatsuya Kameda, Lorne Hulbert, R. Scott Tindale

      Pages 215-240

5. Back Matter

   Pages 241-244

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Early studies of political behavior examined the sociological, attitudinal, and rational determinants of political behavior. However, none of these approaches provided a descriptive model of how people process political information and make political decisions under naturalistic conditions that involve limited cognitive capacity and motivation. Fortunately, contemporary approaches within the field of political psychology have begun to address these concerns. Inspired by recent advances in the area of social psychology, researchers are rapidly developing more realistic and detailed models of the psychological process that determines political judgements and behavior. Early attempts to merely predict political behavior have been replaced by an attempt to describe the actual process whereby individuals gather, interpret, exchange, and combine information to arrive at a political judgement or decision. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of this pioneering era of research in political psychology.

• Action
• Gender
• Ideologie
• Policy
• Stereotyp
• politics
• public opinion
• social psychology

• Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

  Victor C. Ottati, R. Scott Tindale, John Edwards, Fred B. Bryant, Linda Health, Daniel C. O’Connell, Yolanda Suarez-Balzacar, Emil J. Posavac

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