Summary: Political Psychology

Read the summary and the most important questions on Political Psychology

• 1 Lecture 13

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• Polarization of group norm

  Proselfs become more proself and prosocials become more prosocial

• Strength-is-weakness effect

  Parties or people with more resources are less likely to be included in a coalition than parties or people with less resources

• Social Utility Theory

  People care about the outcome of others. People's evaluations and behaviors are a combination of a concern for one own outcomes (self-interest) and other's outcomes (fairness).

• Minimum resources theory

  Reward is equal to your resources

• Minimum power theory

  Reward is based on how many opportunities or alternatives you have

• Egocentric perception of fairness

  Perception of fairness differs for individuals (what they see as unfair)

• 4 Lecture 1

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• 3 reasons for hurting minorities

  - Self-interest
  - Raw racial animosity
  - Subtle, symbolic racism

• 5 Lecture 2

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• Five groups of voters

  - No issue content
  - Nature of the times
  - Group interest
  - Near-Ideologues
  - Ideologues

• Defenition of ideology according to Jost and Tedin

  Interrelated set of attitudes and values about the proper goals of society and how they should be achieved (can be affective and cognitive)

• Predictors of social dominance orientation

  - Low agreeableness
  - Low openness to experience