Political Psychology

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Distinctive Preferences Toward Risk in the Substantive Domain of Sociality
Tim Johnson, Mikhail G. Myagkov and John M. Orbell

The Effects of Need for Cognition and Need for Affect on Partisan Evaluations
Kevin Arceneaux and Ryan J. Vander Wielen

Public Option Versus the Market: Perceived Value Violations Drive Opposition to Healthcare Reform
Geoffrey Wetherell, Christine Reyna and Melody Sadler

Changing Parties, Changing Partisans: The Personalization of Partisan Attachments in Western Europe
Diego Garzia

Group Merger Between Political Parties: The Role of the Ingroup Projection Process
Simona Sacchi, Andrea Carnaghi, Federica Castellini and Monica Colombo

Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences
Christopher R. Weber and Christopher M. Federico

Value Differentiation Between Enemies and Allies: Value Projection in National Images
Véronique Eicher, Felicia Pratto and Peter Wilhe

The Political Psychology of Biology, Genetics, and Behavior
Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott

Huxtables on the Brain: An fMRI Study of Race and Norm Violation
Darren Schreiber and Marco Iacoboni

Thin-Slice Decisions Do Not Need Faces to be Predictive of Election Outcomes
Michael L. Spezio, Laura Loesch, Frédéric Gosselin, Kyle Mattes and R. Michael Alvarez

Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science
Anthony C. Lopez and Rose McDermott

The Heritability of Duty and Voter Turnout
Peter John Loewen and Christopher T. Dawes

Disentangling the Importance of Psychological Predispositions and Social Constructions in the Organization of American Political Ideology
Brad Verhulst, Peter K. Hatemi and Lindon J. Eaves

Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare
Michael Bang Petersen, Daniel Sznycer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

The Impact of Value Similarity and Power on the Perception of Threat
Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Stephanie M. Müller and David L. Rousseau

Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators
Bryce J. Dietrich, Scott Lasley, Jeffery J. Mondak, Megan L. Remmel and Joel Turner

Ideology, Prejudice, and Attitudes Toward Sexual Minority Social Policies and Organizations
V. Paul Poteat and Ethan H. Mereish

On Strong Attitudes and Group Deliberation: Relationships, Structure, Changes, and Effects
Magdalena E. Wojcieszak

Reasoning Is for Arguing: Understanding the Successes and Failures of Deliberation
Hugo Mercier and Hélène Landemore

Social Identity, Groups, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Orla T. Muldoon and Robert D. Lowe

The Association of Religiosity and Political Conservatism: The Role of Political Engagement
Ariel Malka, Yphtach Lelkes, Sanjay Srivastava, Adam B. Cohen and Dale T. Miller

Where Do We Go From Here in Political Psychology? An Introduction by Special Issue Editor
Helen Haste

Broadening Political Psychology
Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott

Of BOLD Claims and Excessive Fears: A Call for Caution and Patience Regarding Political Neuroscience
Alexander G. Theodoridis and Amy J. Nelson

The Discursive Frames of Political Psychology
Paul Nesbitt-Larking and Catarina Kinnvall

Where To From Here for the Psychology of Social Change? Future Directions for Theory and Practice
Emina Subašić, Katherine J. Reynolds, Stephen D. Reicher and Bert Klandermans

Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology
Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki

Legal Innovation for Social Change: Exploring Change and Resistance to Different Types of Sustainability Laws
Paula Castro

Grounding Citizenship: Toward a Political Psychology of Public Space
Andrés Di Masso

The Case for Metaphor in Political Reasoning and Cognition
Lori D. Bougher

How Can We Study Heroism? Integrating Persons, Situations and Communities
Eranda Jayawickreme and Paul Di Stefano

Linking Genetics and Political Attitudes: Re-Conceptualizing Political Ideology
Kevin B. Smith, Douglas R. Oxley, Matthew V. Hibbing, John R. Alford, John R. Hibbing

Basic Personal Values and the Meaning of Left-Right Political Orientations in 20 Countries
Shalom Schwartz, Eldad Davidov, Yuval Piurko

Can Grammar Win Elections?
Caitlin Fausey, Teenie Matlock

Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
Robert Jervis, Reviewed by David A. Welch

On the Knowledge of Politics and the Politics of Knowledge: How a Social Representations Approach Helps Us Rethink the Subject of Political Psychology
Guy Elcheroth, Willem Doise, Stephen Reicher

Social Representations: A Normative and Dynamic Intergroup Approach
Christian Staerklé, Alain Clémence, Dario Spini

Two Years of Ups and Downs: Barack Obama's Patterns of Integrative Complexity, Motive Imagery, and Values
Peter Suedfeld, Ryan W. Cross, Jelena Brcic

Redemptions, Fairness, and the Political of Transformation in the Obama Presidency
Stanley A. Renshon

Broadening Political Psychology
Peter K. Hatemi, Rose McDermott

Of BOLD Claims and Excessive Fears: A Call for Caution and Patience Regarding Political Neuroscience
Alexander G. Theodoridis, Amy J. Nelson

Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology
Phillip L. Hammack, Andrew Pilecki

How Can We Study Heroism? Integrating Persons, Situations and Communities
Eranda Jayawickreme, Paul Di Stefano