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Apr 27, 2024
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Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] See drop-down menu above to access other catalogs.
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POLI 367 - Political Psychology(3 credits)
Prerequisite: POLI 172
This course surveys major theoretical approaches and empirical research in the interdisciplinary field of political psychology, a discipline that employs experimental methods and core concepts from psychology as tools to help understand political processes. The basic outline of the course is as follows: first, it introduces important concepts from psychology, offering new ways of thinking about subjects as varied as personality, social group dynamics and the ways in which emotion influences political decision making. Second, it applies these concepts to various topics within political science, including the media and political advertising, race, gender and ethnicity, ideology and the formation of political attitudes an opinions as a means of providing a distinct perspective on how to account for various political phenomena. And third, it explores the various research designs utilized in political psychology with a heavy emphasis on experimental methodology. Offered alternate years.
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