A Paradigm for Political Psychology

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(from the chapter) Many important theories in political psychology rest on implicit assumptions regarding perceptions of the self and others. In this chapter, the author weaves these tacit assumptions together into a single paradigm for political psychology and argues that it is the cognitive component of perspective that provides the basic underlying paradigm for political psychology. The chapter begins with a description of perspective and defines its core assumptions. Next, how perspective draws on several bodies of literature in political psychology is discussed, from framing theory to social cognitive theory. The author demonstrates how perspective provides a more encompassing paradigm than rational choice theory, arguably the dominant paradigm existing in social science today and one that essentially is a theory about the human psychology. The author argues that if political psychology can refine perspective in the years to come it not only will solidify its own intellectual foundation as a discipline but also will provide all of social science with a paradigm that more accurately reflects how the human mind works. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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A Paradigm for Political Psychology. (2021). In Political Psychology (pp. 407–424). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410606099-29

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