Political Psychology, Spring 2012
Lecture 1: Introduction to Political Psychology
Lecture 2: Making Decisions
Lecture 3: Predictably Irrational Decision Making
Lecture 4: Symbolic politics and political violence
Lecture 5: Disposition, biology, and political behavior
Lecture 6: Biological and social evolution & political behavior
Lecture 7: Group decision making
Lecture 8: Information processing, heuristics, and beautiful politicians
Lecture 9: Priming, dissonance, bias, and the influence of media
Lecture 10: Frames, stereotypes, and why Americans hate welfare
Lecture 11: Emotional politics
Lecture 12: Neuropolitics
Lecture 13: The Drunkard's Search and the psychology of foreign policy
Lecture 14: Obedience to authority
Lecture 15: Group threat and challenges of spotting a bigot
Lecture 16: Social identity
Lecture 17: Social dominance
Lecture 18: The mystery of partisanship: Why are people Democrats and Republicans?
Lecture 19: Obama's election and symbolic politics
Lecture 20: Extremism, political violence, and terrorism
Lecture 22: Ideology and inequality in the United States
Lecture 23: The psychology of evil and the political psychology of good