The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
Individuals do not act within a vacuum. Their behavior varies with, and responds to, differences in political institutions, political cultures, leadership styles, and social norms.
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consists of the traits Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Sadism (Buckels et al., 2013) and captures antisocial personality traits that are not well represented in the Big Five
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Cognitive biases, sometimes referred to as “cold” cognitions, are based on the application of cognitive heuristics such as anchoring, in which prior probability assessments exert a disproportionate weight and in which the updating of priors based on new information is slow and inefficient.
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How is information acquired, interpreted, stored in memory, and then later used in political judgments?
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social identity theory, which stresses social prestige and intergroup respect as motives for intergroup behavior
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morality in which it is regarded as an emotional and intuitive basis of political judgement.
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If those with the information needed to make a fully informed decision are also the most biased in their reasoning, rational deliberation seems like an unattainable political ideal.
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The brain is largely devoted to monitoring the body, and most of its activity lies outside consciousness, reserving conscious thought for important higher-level activities.
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anger and anxiety in driving selective information exposure.