About the Book
Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions.
In this updated third edition of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit
have gathered together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide an up-to-date account of key topics and areas of research in the field. Chapter authors draw on theory and research on
biopsychology, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and intergroup relations. Some chapters address the political psychology of political elites, while other chapters deal with the dynamics of mass political behavior. 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 political elites and addresses both domestic issues and foreign policy.
Now with new chapters on authoritarianism, nationalism, status hierarchies, minority political identities, and several other topics along with substantially updated material to account for the recent 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.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Political Psychology Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Chapter 2: Personality Approaches to Political Behavior Bert N. Bakker
Chapter 3: Childhood and Adult Political Development David O. Sears and Christia Brown
Chapter 4: Rational Choice as an Empirical and Normative Model of Political Behavior Dennis Chong
Chapter 5: Political Decision-Making Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk
Chapter 6: Emotion and Political Psychology Ted Brader and Shana Gadarian
Chapter 7: The Evolutionarily Approach to Political Psychology Michael Bang Petersen Chapter 8: Biology and Politics Jaime Settle and Laurel Detert
Chapter 9: Political Language Nick Hopkins PART II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chapter 10: Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Psychological Dimension Jack S. Levy
Chapter 11: Perceiving Threat: Cognition, Emotion, and Judgment Janice Gross Stein
Chapter 12: Signaling, Resolve, and Reputation in International Politics Don Casler and Keren Yarhi-Milo Chapter 13: Public Opinion about Foreign Policy Joshua D. Kertzer Chapter 14: The Political Psychology of Terrorism Keren L.G. Snider, Ryan Shandler, Sharon Matzkin, and Daphna Canetti PART III: MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Chapter 15: Information Processing
Jennifer Jerit and Cindy D. Kam Chapter 16: Political Communication Dannagal G. Young and Joanne M. Miller Chapter 17: The Psychological and Social Foundations of Ideological Belief Systems Christopher M. Federico and Ariel Malka Chapter 18: Morality as the Enduring Basis of Public Opinion Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom Chapter 19: The Political Psychology of Gender
Monica C. Schneider and Angela L. Bos
Chapter 20: Authoritarianism and Political Conflict Stanley Feldman and Christopher Weber
Chapter 21: National Identity, Patriotism, and Nationalism Leonie Huddy Chapter 22: The Social Identity Approach to Leadership
Frank Mols, A. Alexander Haslam, Michael J. Platow, Stephen D. Reicher, and Niklas K. Steffens PART IV: INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Chapter 23: Group-Based Hierarchies of Power and Status Maureen A. Craig and L. Taylor Phillips
Chapter 24: Political Identities
Lilliana Mason Chapter 25: The Gaze From Below: Toward a Political Psychology of Minority Status
Efrén O. Pérez and Bianca V. Vicuña
Chapter 26: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Collective Action Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte
Chapter 27: Prejudice and Politics Donald R. Kinder
Chapter 28: Migration and Multiculturalism Eva G. T. Green and Christian Staerklé
Chapter 29: Prejudice Reduction and Social Change: Dual Goals to be Pursued in Tandem Linda R. Tropp and Trisha A. Dehrone Chapter 30: Emotional Processes in Intractable Conflicts
Smadar Cohen-Chen and Eran Halperin Index
About the Author :
Leonie Huddy is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. She served as co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2005 till 2010, is past-president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), serves on the American National Election Studies Board, appears regularly on CSB Radio as an exit poll analyst, and serves on numerous editorial boards in political
science. Huddy has written extensively on social and political identities, emotions, reactions to terrorism, gender and politics, and race relations. She is the co-author of Going to War in Iraq: When Citizens and the Press
Matter (2015, with Stanley Feldman and George Marcus). David O. Sears is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science, former Dean of Social Sciences, and former Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, all at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sears received his B.A. in History from Stanford University, his Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from Yale University in 1962, and since then has taught at UCLA. He has held visiting faculty positions at Harvard University and the
University of California, Berkeley, has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and twice at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. His books include Public Opinion (1964,
with Robert E. Lane), The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot (1973, with John B. McConahay), Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (1982, with Jack Citrin), Social Psychology (12 editions from 1970 to 2006, with Shelley E. Taylor and L. Anne Peplau), Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (2010, with Michael Tesler), and American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2014,
with Jack Citrin). Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses on the causes of interstate war, foreign policy decision-making, and political psychology. Levy is past president of the International Studies Association (ISA) (2007-08) and of the Peace Science Society (2005-06). He received the Helen Dwight Reid (now Merze Tate)
Award for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975-76 from the American Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Foreign Policy Analysis Section (2000), and the
Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from ISA's International Security Studies Section (2022). Levy is co-author of Causes of War (2010, with W. R. Thompson) and of The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011). Jennifer Jerit is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. She has taught Experimental Methods at the Summer Methods School at the National University of Singapore and at the University of Vienna. Jerit is a co-editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science and serves on the American National Election Studies Board and numerous editorial boards in political science. She has written on political knowledge, misinformation,
political communication, survey methodology, and experimental design.
