Political Psychology (eBook)

A Social Psychological Approach

Christopher J. Hewer, Evanthia Lyons (Herausgeber)

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2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-98237-2 (ISBN)

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A research-based guide to political psychology that is filled with critical arguments from noted experts

Political Psychology is solidly grounded in empirical research and critical arguments. The text puts the emphasis on alternative approaches to psychological enquiry that challenge our traditional assumptions about the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the text contains a meaningful exchange of ideas that draw on the disciplines of social psychology, sociology, history, media studies and philosophy. This important text offers a broader understanding of the different intellectual positions that academics may take towards political psychology.

Comprehensive in scope Political Psychology provides a historical context to the subject and offers a critical history of common research methods. The contributors offer insight on political thought in psychology, the politics of psychological language, narrating as political action, political decision-making and much more. This important text:

• Offers contributions from a panel of international experts on the topic
• Includes a review of some political ideas associated with the work of Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, R.D. Laing, Michel Foucault and others
• Presents information on prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination in the context of mass migration
• Reviews a wide range of relevant topics such as identity, social exclusion and foreign policy and more
• Contains questions for group debate and discussion at the end of each chapter              

Written for academics and students of political psychology, Political Psychology is a comprehensive resource that includes contributions from experts in a variety of fields and disciplines. 

Christopher J. Hewer is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London where he teaches critical social psychology and the psychology of art and film. His research interests focus on collective memory, shifting memorialization and forgetting in cultural discourse.

Evanthia Lyons is Head of School and Professor of Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London, UK. Her research focuses on people's understanding of political processes and the factors that influence their engagement in conventional and unconventional political actions.

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List of Contributors

Xenia Chryssochoou obtained her Ph.D. from the University Rene Descartes‐Paris V and taught at different universities in France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom before returning to Greece where she is currently Professor of Social and Political Psychology at the University of Panteion in Athens. She is interested in the social psychological aspects of identity and its construction in liberal societies in relation to conflict, political participation, and questions of cultural diversity.

J. Christopher Cohrs is Professor of Psychology at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. After receiving his doctoral degree (Dr. Phil) in 2004 from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, he was Lecturer in Psychology at Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His research focuses on ideology, political attitudes, prejudice, and representations of intergroup conflict. He is cofounder and coeditor of the international open‐access Journal of Social and Political Psychology.

Stephen Gibson is a social psychologist based at York St. John University, UK. His research interests are in the areas of dis/obedience, citizenship, and national identity, and representations of peace and conflict. His most recent work has examined the archived audio recordings of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments in order to develop a perspective on these studies as rhetorical encounters. He is the coeditor of Representations of Peace and Conflict (with Simon Mollan, 2012), and Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project (with Cath Sullivan and Sarah Riley, 2012).

Artemis M. Griva received her Ph.D. in social psychology in 2014. She is currently a researcher at the University of Crete, Greece, and her research focuses on the social psychology of identity, globalization, and the sociocultural aspects of government policy. She has worked on research projects funded by the European Union (EU) and is author of scholarly and policy‐oriented publications.

Christopher J. Hewer is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London where he teaches critical social psychology and the psychology of art and film. His research interests focus on collective memory, shifting memorialization, and forgetting in cultural discourse. Recent projects have addressed issues arising from contemporary memory in Britain for the Allied bombing of Germany and the Falklands conflict. Other work has explored the social construction of terrorism, national identity in Kosovo, and attitudes to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Republika Srpska.

Caroline Howarth is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is committed to a form of social psychology that intersects with current social and political concerns—particularly those that lead to programs for social change. Living in multicultural communities in Kenya, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji has influenced her approach to social psychology, directing her interests towards the political interconnections between community, identity, representation, and resistance. She is coeditor of Political Psychology, editor of Papers on Social Representations, and she publishes widely across social, community, and political psychology.

Sarah Jay is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research integrates social psychology with sociological theory, and explores social class as a system of inequality. The objective of her research is to promote social justice and to use social psychology to examine and expose taken for granted systems that advantage the powerful.

Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors’ Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and an Affiliate of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is past‐president of the International Studies Association and of the Peace Science Society. His primary research interests focus on the causes of interstate war, foreign policy decision‐making, political psychology, and qualitative methodology. He is author of War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495–1975 (1983); coauthor (with William R. Thompson) of Causes of War (2010) and of The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011); and co‐editor of Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (with Gary Goertz, 2007), The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, 2nd ed. (with Leonie Huddy and David O. Sears, 2013), and The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision‐Making (with John A. Vasquez, 2014).

Simon Locke was formerly Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, UK. His research interests focus on rhetoric, conspiracy discourse, and the intersection between comic books and the public understanding of science. He is author of Re‐Crafting Rationalisation: Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries (2011).

Evanthia Lyons is Professor of Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London, UK. Her research focuses on people’s understanding of political processes and the factors that influence their engagement in conventional and unconventional political actions. She has recently completed an EU funded, multinational project looking at the processes that influence political participation among young people from different ethnic backgrounds. More recent work has focused on the way that people manage multiple group memberships; particularly, how different patterns of identification with ethnic, national, religious categories relate to prejudice, social stereotyping, political trust, and political violence. She is coeditor of Changing European Identities: Social Psychological Analyses of Social Change (with Glynis Breakwell, 1996) and Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology 2nd ed. (with Adrian Coyle, 2016).

Shelley McKeown is Lecturer in Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 2012 where she was part of the Peace and Conflict Psychology Research Group. Her research focuses on understanding social identity processes and how best to reduce prejudice in diversity and conflict settings.

Orla Muldoon is Professor of Psychology, based in the Department of Psychology and Centre for Social Issues Research at the University of Limerick. Her broad research interests concern the impact of structural disadvantage on social identities and health and well‐being.

Fergus G. Neville is Research Fellow at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews. He is currently employed on an ESRC‐funded project examining the process and limits of behavioral spread in crowds. His work broadly concerns the relationship between social identities, norms, and group behavior, with a particular focus on crowd action, and experience. Dr. Neville also publishes research on violence prevention, and the social determinants and outcomes of child and adolescent health. He is currently an Editorial Consultant for the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Spyridoula Ntani received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Surrey, and she is currently a researcher at Panteion University, Greece. Her research focuses on the development of extreme ideologies and political participation in times of crisis. She has taught social psychology at undergraduate level at different universities in Greece and has participated in funded research projects on fundamental rights protection, health care inequalities, and gender issues.

Emma O’Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in Political Psychology at Kingston University, London. Her research broadly focuses on the ways in which individuals and groups understand and relate to foreign policy, wars, and military intervention. She has explored these issues in relation to Irish foreign policy and its link to national identity, lay understandings of armed drones, and peace activism.

Stephen D. Reicher, Wardlaw Professor, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Academy for Social Sciences. He is also former Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and is a Scientific Consultant to Scientific American Mind. Professor Reicher’s work concerns the relationship between social identities and collective practices. In approaching 300 publications, he has studied such issues as mass rhetoric and leadership, nationalism and national identities, social exclusion and intergroup hatred, and the psychology of obedience and tyranny. Throughout his career, he has been interested in crowd psychology and his work has transformed both our theoretical understanding of this field and also public order practices in Europe, North America, and beyond.

Ron Roberts is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University and he previously held posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Westminster, King’s College Medical School, University College London, St. Bartholomew’s Medical School, Queen Mary College, and the Tavistock Institute. He is the author of numerous research articles and books, including Parapsychology: The...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2018
• Reihe/Serie: BPS Textbooks in Psychology
• Reihe/Serie: BPS Textbooks in Psychology
• Reihe/Serie: BPS Textbooks in Psychology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: a history of research methods and political psychology • alienation to estrangement and political thought • Angewandte Psychologie • Applied Psychology • a societal approach to political psychology • Discursive psychology, rhetorical psychology and cognitive psychology </p> • Locating the root of human behaviour • <p>Guide to political psychology • politics and governance of the self • Psychologie • Psychology • resource to political psychology • searching for the universal laws of behaviour • Social Cognition • text on political psychology • The construction of norms, normality and normalcy and political philosophy • the development of religious identities • The influence of political philosophy on social psychology • the politics of psychological language • the social and moral order and political psychology • understanding political psychology • Using statistical measures and models for political purposes
• ISBN-10: 1-118-98237-1 / 1118982371
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-98237-2 / 9781118982372