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This interdisciplinary course explores the psychological factors determining political behavior among individuals and groups. Areas to be covered include rationality, heuristics, biases, updating, learning, motivated reasoning, images, stereotypes, perceptions, emotions, morality, personality, values, groups, national groups, reputation, revenge, and violence. Specifically, the approaches and explanations of political psychology will be applied to explain the behavior of political leaders, individuals, groups, and social movements in the context of ethnic international conflict, terrorism, nationalism, media, voting, and conflict resolution. A goal of the course is to strengthen students' understanding of the psychological mechanisms affecting people's political behavior regardless of ethnic, religious, racial, or ideological differences.

GEP Social Sciences

Typically offered in Spring only