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This course provides a broad introduction to the field
of political psychology, including historical and
contemporary perspectives, surveys the
major theoretical approaches and reviews
most important contemporary empirical findings.
Political psychology, as a subfield of
political science, investigates the psychological
processes that influence political decision
making, attitude formation, voter behavior including
candidate and issue evaluations. Such
processes include affective responses,
information processing, group dynamics, political
socialization, etc. Applications of
political psychology extend from the analysis
of individuals' political attitudes
(e.g. candidate evaluations, prejudice
towards ethnic, religious and social
minorities, etc.) to elite decision
making in major international crisis
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