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Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to the relationship between psychology and political science, with a focus on the role of human thought, emotion, and behavior in politics.^[1]

It analyzes political science as related to entities such as voters, lawmakers, local and national governments and administrations, international organizations, political parties, and associations. While the grammar of "political psychology" tends to stress psychology as the central field, the discipline could also be accurately labeled "the psychology of politics," so as to more evenly recognize the interdisciplinary nature of the field.^[2]

Also not fully conveyed by the label is the wide scope of the disciplines from which political psychology draws, including anthropology, cognitive and personality psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and other more distant fields such as economics, philosophy, and the arts.^[2]

Contents 1 History of political psychology 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History of political psychology

The cross-fertilization between political science and psychology has risen to a modestly active level since its beginnings in the 1940s, though both fields have traditionally had a wider magnitude of collaboration with other disciplines, such as history with political science, and sociology with psychology.^[3]

[edit] See also

• Community psychology
• Critical psychology
• Law (government)
• Personality and political behaviour
• Political economy
• Political economic systems
• Political participation
• Political processes
• Politics
• Public opinion
• Social psychology of fascism
• Voting behavior

[edit] References

1. ↑ Sapiro, Virginia (2001). INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. URL accessed on 19 May, 2006.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Iyengar, Shanto; McGuire, William J. (Eds.) (1993). "Interdisciplinary Cross-Fertilization" Explorations in Political Psychology, Duke University Press.
3. ↑ McGuire, William J. (1993). "The Poly-Psy Relationship: Three Phases of a Long Affair" Iyengar, Shanto; McGuire, William J. Explorations in Political Psychology, Duke University Press.

[edit] External links

• International Bulletin of Political Psychology
• The Center for the Study of Political Psychology
• The International Society of Political Psychology
• Political Psychology Research, Inc.
• Political Psychology at The George Washington University

This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Political psychology. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Political psychology. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.