Political Psychology, Spring 2011
Lecture 1: Introduction to Political Psychology
Lecture 2: Incentives for behavior
Lecture 3: Experiments and observational research in social science
Lecture 4: Evolutionary and biological theories of human behavior
Lecture 5: Personality and politics (and some genetics too)
Lecture 6: Symbolic politics with an application to political violence
Lecture 7: Emotion and politics
Lecture 8: Heuristics, stereotypes, and beautiful politicians
Lecture 9: Dissonance, bias, and the influence of media
Lecture 10: Frames and why Americans hate welfare
Lecture 11: Political leadership
Lecture 12: Group decision making
Lecture 13: Obedience to authority
Lecture 14: Immigration, group threat, and the challenges of identity politics research
Lecture 15: Symbolic politics - college life and the mystery of ideology & partisanship
Lecture 16: Symbolic politics - college life and the mystery of ideology & partisanship (no, really this time)
Lecture 17: Social dominance
Lecture 18: Extremism, political violence, and terrorism
Lecture 19: Obama's election
Lecture 21: Ideology and equality in the United States
Lecture 22: the psychology of evil and the political psychology of good