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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Political Psychology"”.
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Implications of a Multidimensional Model of Ideology for Political Psychology
… which in turn instructs them on how to handle political issues. The central motivation of this thesis is an attempt to quantify and identify the structure of ideology, by reducing the noise behind an individual’s vote into multiple ideological “dimensions” - broad categories of belief which …
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The political psychology of perceptions of Latino voters and of Latino politicians
… particularly with respect to perceptions of political ideology. Political scientists have made great strides with regard to the consequences of race in American politics, and my dissertation tests whether ethnicity is similarly consequential. My focus on political ideology explores the more …
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An investigation into the political psychology of attitudes towards immigration in the UK: What drives these attitudes, can they be predicted, and can they be changed?
… text. The thesis draws on literature relating to political psychology, notably as regards authoritarianism and the Dual Process Model. It touches on behavioural science, the study of individual differences (including Moral Foundations Theory, Social Dominance Theory and personality traits) and the …
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Group conflict and intergroup contact
… paper bridges perspectives on group conflict in political economy and political psychology. The political economy literature focuses on bargaining; the political psychology literature focuses on group identities. This paper demonstrates that these two perspectives can work together by applying …
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… is to investigate the degree to which the political psychology of Reinhold Niebuhr contributes to a more capacious theory of deliberative politics and to what degree such a theory may permit individuals to express themselves with more workable forms of democratic practice. Considerations of …
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The Politics of Getting the Joke: The Effects of Political Humor on Information Seeking Behavior
Political humor plays a positive role in American democracy. It increases the political awareness and interest of the audience. There is a growing body of literature, both empirical and theoretical, that looks at role of political humor in American politics. In line with some of this literature, …
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Individual Disengagement of "Turkish Penitents" from Political Violence as Rite of Passage: Voices from the Cracks of Social Structure
… the notion of individual disengagement from political violence in Turkey by reconstructing the lives of 13 'formers' whom I call the Turkish Penitents. Its specific aim is to compare and contrast the experiences of those individuals who left various politically-motivated leftist/revolutionary …
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On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three-factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism
… most influential distinctions in the field of political psychology. While frequently used, the distinction suffers from a number of shortcomings that have hitherto been devoted little attention to. This dissertation aims to contribute to fill this research gap by systematically addressing these …
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How Voters Use Issues
… how much of voter decision-making is driven by political issue information? Much of the literature on this topic has narrowly debated whether the mass public uses issues at all, with influential work concluding that citizens seem largely unable or unwilling to do so. If true, this has important …
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The Cognitive and Affective Determinants of Political Judgments
Recent research in political psychology has emphasized the unique role of beliefs and episodic emotions as determinants of attitude toward a political candidate. A conceptual distinction between "beliefs" and "emotions" has been argued on the basis of the finding that evaluative consistency …
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U.S. Military Student Veterans Identity Formation: Policy Feedback and Symbolic Interactionism
… which the literature from public administration, political psychology and sociology is synthesized around student veterans as a new phenomenon in higher education and public policy. By examining student veterans through the Social Construction of Target Populations (SCTP) framework, these articles …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
An abundance of work in social and political psychology suggests a positive relationship between political conservatism, disgust sensitivity, and disease avoidance. Yet, despite this link, recent research suggests that political conservatism is negatively associated with attention to, and knowledge …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… in every corner of the world, the local political dynamics they generate remain surprisingly understudied. This project sheds light on different levels of local contestation confronting American military outposts overseas – a puzzle left unanswered by existing studies where prominent …
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
"Political research has documented the role of race in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial …
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The Predominance of Race in American Mass Political Thinking: Racial Belief System Centrality and the Racialization of American Politics
Political research has documented the role of race in the transformation of the American political system. In the mid-1960s, the electorate became, and has remained, polarized around the race issue. Scholars have also discovered that race provides a core structuring principle for a substantial …
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
… reasoning has been studied extensively in political psychology, most of these studies have been limited to single issues and single motivated reasoning processes, making it impossible to generalize about how individual voters approach cognitive dissonance in complex campaign environments …
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Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective
… to examine how individuals perceive little-known political officials via strong or weak ties to a president. To address this glaring gap in the literature, a 3X2 online experiment, manipulating prime valence and tie strength, was conducted. More specifically, a news transcript was manipulated to …
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Good representation What are the determinants of a good representative?
… aims to deepen and refine our understanding of political representation – which refers to the institutionalized relationship between electorates and their representatives – by highlighting the effects of candidate characteristics, representatives’ actions, and personality traits. The theoretical …
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Asmeninės savybės politiko veide ir rinkėjų pasirinkimas /
… elector choice” aims to take a closer look at political psychology discipline. Tries to identify how important is the face perception of the politicians and how perception of the face can predict electoral success. Also, this empirical survey is looking for correlation between personality …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… with consociationalism, representation, and political psychology; and 4) by including methodologies that take into account the geographic distribution of demographic factors and their effects on politically relevant outcomes. The main arguments are that subnational authoritarianism is more …
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