This bundle contains everything you need to know for the course "Political Psychology" at the University of Amsterdam. It contains the lectures. In the lectures, the following articles are discussed:
"Hammack & Pilecki (2012). Narrative as a root metaphor for Political Psychology".
"Van Zomeren, Spears, Fischer, & Leach (2004). Put your money where your mouth is! Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy."
"Wright, Taylor, & Moghaddam (1990). Responding to membership in a disadvantaged group: From acceptance to collective protest."
"Deax, Reid, Martin, & Bikmen (2006). Ideologies of diversity and inequality: Predicting collective action in groups varying in ethnicity and immigrant status".
"Klandermans, van der Toorn, & van Stekelenburg (2008). Embeddedness and Identity: How immigrants turn grievances into action."
"Reicher (1996). 'The battle of Westminster': Developing the social identity model of crowd behaviour in order to explain the initiation and development of collective conflict."
"Reicher (2016). "La beauté est dans la rue". Four reasons (or perhaps five) to study crowds."
"Feddes, Mann, & Doosje (2015). Increasing self-esteem and empathy to prevent violent radicalization: a longitudinal quantitative evaluation of a resilience training focused on adolescents with a dual identity."
"Heath-Kelly (2012). Counter-terrorism and the counterfactual: Producing the radicalisation discourse and the UK PREVENT strategy."
Pyszczynski et al. (2006). Mortality salience, martyrdom, and military might: The great satan versus the axis of evil."
"Webber et al. (2018). The road to extremism: Field and experimental evidence that significance loss-induced need for closure fosters radicalization."
"Bar-Tal (2007). Sociopsychological foundations of intractable conflicts."
"Halperin (2008). Group-based hatred in intractable conflict in Israel."
"Mastroianni (2015). Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the holocaust."
"Strauss (2007). What is the relationship between hate radio and violence? Rethinking Rwanda's 'radio machete'."
"Cehajic, Brown, & Castano (2008). Forgive and forget? Antecedents and consequences of intergroup forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
"Hornsey & Wohl (2013). We are sorry: Intergroup apologies and their tenuous link with intergroup forgiveness."
"Hornsey et al. (2017). Conservatives are more reluctant to give and receive apologies than liberals."
"Rimé, Kanyangara, Yzerbyt, & Paez (2011). The impact of gacaca tribunals in Rwanda: Psychosocial effects of participation in a truth and reconciliation process after a genocide."
"Cho (2013). Campaign tone, political affect and communicative engagement."
"Marcus, MacKuen, & Neuman (2011). Parsimony and complexity: Developing and testing theories of affective intelligence."
"Lecheler, Schuck, & de Vreese (2013). Dealing with feelings: Positive and negative discrete emotions as mediators of news framing effects."
"Stolwijk, Schuck, & de Vreese (2016). How anxiety and enthusiasm help explain the bandwagon effect."
Political psychology explains what people do by adapting psychological concepts in order to make them useful and relevant to politics and then apply these concepts to the analysis of a political problem.
A narrative refers to a sensible organization of thought through language which serves to create a sense of personal
........Read moreA group member engages in collective action any time that the group member is acting as a representative of the group and where the action is directed at improving the conditions of the group as a whole. Collective action usually occurs in disadvantaged groups but can include members of the advantaged group on behalf of the disadvantaged group.
........Read moreIn a crowd, there are intragroup processes (e.g. leaders and followers). There are also intergroup processes (e.g. police vs. protesters).
Common-bond groups refer to social groups based on attachment between group members (e.g. friends). The attachment is based on similarity (1), likability (2) and familiarity (3). There is more attachment to individual group members than to
........Read moreProcedural justice refers to the fairness of decision-making procedures and whether authorities treat people with respect and can be trusted. Distributive justice refers to fairness of outcomes. Procedural justice is more important for people than distributive justice.
The intergroup threat theory states that the higher levels of perceived threat result in higher levels of national identification.
........Read moreRadicalization refers to the action or process of making someone more radical (i.e. extreme) in their political or religious beliefs. It includes a growing preparedness to strive for and support far-reaching changes in society. People are becoming increasingly motivated to use violent means against members of an out-group or symbolic targets to achieve political goals. It is best
........Read moreDeradicalization refers to the process of becoming less radical. This applies to both behaviour and beliefs. It involves the cessation of violent actions (1), an increase in confidence in the system (2), a desire to be a part of society (3) and a rejection of non-democratic means (4). Deradicalization programmes often include an effort to prevent radicalization from
........Read moreThe biological approach states that mankind is genetically predisposed to be violent. Behaviourism states that violence is socially learned through modelling and operant conditioning. However, aggression is probably a consequence of an interaction between nature and nurture.
There are different personality traits related to showing aggression in different contexts (i.e. dark tetrad of personality). Narcissism is
........Read moreGenocide refers to killing members of the group (1), causing serious bodily or mental harm to members (2), deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life to bring about physical destruction (3), imposing measures intended to prevent births (4) and forcibly transferring children to another group (5) with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious
........Read moreReconciliation refers to the mutual acceptance by groups of each other. It consists of a changed psychological orientation toward each other. Forgiveness refers to the restoration of a positive relationship between perpetrator and victim. The negative emotions toward the perpetrator are replaced with positive emotions and behaviour. Forgiveness is one-sided, whereas reconciliation is not. Forgiveness makes one very
........Read morePolitical apology is a specific type of potentially reconciliatory behaviour. It is almost always an intergroup apology. Transitional justice refers to the transformation of authoritarian regimes and regimes involved in mass human right violations into democracies that overcome such histories and seek social reconciliation and restorative justice.
An apology refers to communications in which offending parties
........Read moreThere is an important role of emotion in voting. Furthermore, there is an important role of narratives in voting. This is reflected in the content of the message, the identity (i.e. of the groups) and the values. The parents (1), school (2), friends (3), media (4) and events (5) are important in forming political attitudes.
There
........Read moreThe media presents narratives. It makes use of cognition and emotions. The media bias refers to the idea that media are not objective. This leads to more distrust in the media and is more prevalent among right-wing. There is a media bias through four aspects:
This bundle contains everything you need to know for the course "Political Psychology" taught at the University of Amsterdam. It contains the following articles:
"Hammack & Pilecki (2012). Narrative as a root metaphor for Political Psychology".
"Van Zomeren
This bundle contains everything you need to know for the course "Political Psychology" taught at the University of Amsterdam. It contains the following articles:
"Hammack & Pilecki (2012). Narrative as a root metaphor for Political Psychology".
"Van Zomeren
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