Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments xi
I. Interdisciplinary Cross-Fertilization
1. An Overview of the Field of Political Psychology / Shanto Iyengar 3
2. The Poly-Psy Relationship: Three Phases of a Long Affair / William J.McGuire 9
3. Psychohistory and Political Psychology: A Comparative Analysis / William McKinley Runyan 36
II. Attitudes and Behavior
4. Political Perception / Donald Granberg 70
5. Symbolic Politics: A Socio-Psychological Theory / David O. Sears 113
6. Nonverbal Behavior and Leadership: Emotion and Cognition in Political Information Processing / Roger D. Masters and Denis G. Sullivan 150
7. The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective / James Sidanius 183
III. Information Processing and Cognition
8. Inside the Mental Voting Booth: An Impression-Driven Process Model of Candidate Evaluation / Milton Lodge and Patrick Stroh 225
9. Political Information Processing / Robert S. Wyer, Jr., and Victor C. Ottati 264
10. Affect and Political Judgment / Victor C. Ottati and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. 296
IV. Decision Making and Choice
11. Information and Electoral Attitudes: A Case of Judgment Under Uncertainty / Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar 321
12. The Drunkard's Search / Robert Jervis 338
13. Decision Making in Presidential Primaries / Samuel L. Popkin 361
14. Cognitive Structural Analysis of Political Rhetoric: Methodological and Theoretical Issues / Philip E. Tetlock 380
References 407
Index 467
Contributors 483

About the Author

Shanto Iyengar is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

William J. McGuire is Professor of Psychology at Yale University.

Reviews

"Explorations in Political Psychology provides a much-needed framework for organizing the multi-disciplinary, multi-method research that characterizes the field of political psychology. The authors have also assembled some of the best examples of that research. The volume is equally useful to the beginning student and the advanced researcher."—Gregory Markus, University of Michigan

"This book will be indispensable to any serious student of political psychology. The editors, themselves among the most prominent schoalrs in the field, have brought together a first-rate lineup of authors. Not only are the chapters comprehensive, but they offer [many] ideas for future research. More than anything else, this reader says that political psychology has a bright future."—James H. Kuklinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign