Theoretical foundations of political psychology
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- Created on: 12-10-18 19:35
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- Theoretical foundations of political psychology
- Rational choice
- A key approach in political science
- 1. You know what you want (goals)
- 2. These goals have values
- 3. Routes to these goals have probabilities
- Biopolitics
- Biology's role
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary psychology
- Behavioural genetics
- Personality
- Psycho-biography of leaders
- Big 5 (OCEAN) Costa and McCrae
- Cognition
- Where do people get their info?
- How do they process info?
- What biases are present in decision making?
- Intergroup relations
- Social identity theory
- Realistic conflict theory
- Social identity theory
- Theories can help explain attitudes to immigrant groups etc
- "Threat" in politics has an important effect on both in-group and out-group
- Rational choice
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