Political Psychology, Spring 2013
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: priming, dissonance, bias, and the influence of 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: Extremism, political violence, and terrorism
Lecture 21: The psychology of evil and the political psychology of good