Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases

What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup-beliefs, values, and so on-of those individuals?This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today.Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases, 3rd edition, provides a concise, readable, and conceptually organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question.Using this situationism-dispositionism framework-which roughly parallels the concerns of social psychology and cognitive neuroscience-this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as emotion, cognition, neuropolitics, genopolitics, personality, beliefs and social identities to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations. The new edition is completely revised and contains new chapters to introduce and conclude the book, as well as fundamentally updated material on (f