Political Psychology, Spring 2015
Lecture 1: Introduction to Political Psychology and Why Social Science Research is Hard
Lecture 2: Making Decisions
Lecture 3: Predictably Irrational Decision Making
Lecture 4: Symbolic Politics and Political Violence
Lecture 5: Personality, Genetics, and Political Behavior
Lecture 6: Biological and Social Evolution & Political Behavior
Lecture 7: Group Decision-Making
Lecture 8: Information Processing, Heuristics, and Voting
Lecture 9: Dissonance, Priming, Biases, and the Media
Lecture 10: Framing, Stereotypes, and Public Policy: Why do Americans Hate Welfare?
Lecture 11: Emotional Politics
Lecture 12: Neuropolitics
Lecture 13: The Drunkard's Search and the Psychology of Foreign Policy
Lecture 14: Ethnocentrism and Bigotry
Lecture 15: Contact and Conflict
Lecture 16: Social identity
Lecture 17: Social Dominance
Lecture 18: Obama's Election and Symbolic Politics
Lecture 19: Social Identity and Partisanship
Lecture 20: Social Identity, Communication and Public Policy (Note that the primary reading for this lecture, LaCour and Green 2014 was subsequently retracted by Science.)
Lecture 21: Extremism, Political Violence, and Terrorism
Lecture 22: The Psychology of Evil and the Political Psychology of Good