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Using Psychology to Understand Politics and Elections.
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election stunned political pundits and ordinary Americans alike. How did it happen? Why didn’t we see it coming? When surprises like these occur, human beings operate as “intuitive psychologists” (Ross 1977), spontaneously searching for causal explanations.
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How does being in a big crowd change your mind? The inauguration of Donald Trump struck us as a unique moment to test these ideas about identity, identity formation and group think with a massive number of people. Jay Van Bavel, a social psychology professor and neuroscientist at NYU, has looked at the concept of “us” vs. "them".
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/crowds-and-the-partisan-m…/
Prof. Diana Mutz on Trump supporters: “It used to be a pretty good deal to be a white, Christian male in America, but things have changed and I think they do feel threatened".
New book in Political Psychology with a fantastic lineup! "The Feeling, Thinking Citizen" by Howard Lavine and Charles S. Taber.
Today we have the Political Psychology Meeting at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Three very interesting research papers on education and conservative compromise, prejudice, priming and the vote, and citizen involvement in political decision making.
People who know less about politics are more confident about their political knowledge.
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/people-with-less-politica…/
9 essential lessons from psychology to understand the Trump era: Motivated reasoning, bias, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more, explained. Brian Resnick.
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/the-psychology-of-politics/
Cambridge Analytica’s “psychographic microtargeting”: what’s bullshit and what’s legit. There’s no good evidence yet that personality profiling can influence elections.
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Personality traits, Facebook "likes", and political preferences.
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/the-promise-of-personalit…/
Mass Psychology in the Age of Trump. Why is Trump driving liberals berserk? Is it him or us—or both?
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/trumps-personality-his-fo…/
Three weeks remaining for early registration to ISPP's 2018 Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
Register by 8 April 2018 to keep your place on the program.
To register go to: https://goo.gl/1GtxfD
Adults’ Political Leanings Linked With Early Personality Traits.
Our political attitudes in adulthood have roots in early childhood temperament, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Analyses of data from more than 16,000 participants in two longitudinal studies in the United Kingdom reveal links between conduct problems at ages 5 and 7 and economic and political discontent 25 years later.
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/childhood-personality-tra…/
Political Psychology shared SPSSI's live video.
Understanding the Psychological Effects of Genocide, and the Psychology of Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Healing.
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Against expectations, people with more egalitarian political views were more open to the idea that intelligence is fixed.
People lower on “social dominance orientation” were more influenced by the argument that intelligence is a fixed trait.
https://galindes.wordpress.com/…/individuals-low-on-sdo-ar…/
Political Psychology updated their profile picture.
Neuroimaging study finds social conservatives have heightened brain reaction to a wide variety of stimuli. Eric W. Dolan. July 17, 2017. New neuroimaging research has uncovered a difference in how the brains of socially conservative and socially liberal individuals in Canada respond to images. The study, which was published in the scientific journal Emotion, provides evidence that our emotional predispositions influence our political orientation. [ 560 more words ]
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