The Psychology of Political Behavior in a Time of Change

<p>1 Introduction.-&nbsp;2 Blue brain, red brain: The biopsychology of political beliefs and behaviors.-&nbsp;3 Behavioral epigenetics: The underpinnings of political psychology.-&nbsp;4 How diversity in nature impacts political psychology.-&nbsp;5 Psychology, politics and complex thought: A time for postformal thought in politics.-&nbsp;6 How do cognitive styles influence political attitudes?&nbsp; A joint consideration of dual-process model and construal level theory.-&nbsp;7 &nbsp; Understanding polarization through a cognitive lens.-&nbsp;8 Postformal psychology: The new normal in times of exponential change.-&nbsp;9 Political cognition: The unconscious mechanisms underlying political beliefs and actions.-&nbsp;10 How psychological processes impact voter decision making.-&nbsp;11 How belief in conspiracy theories addresses some basic human needs.-&nbsp;12 Why is populism so robustly associated with conspiratorial thinking?&nbsp; Collective thinking and the meaning maintenance model.-&nbsp;13 Pathways to social connection and civility in a time of political and social polarization.-&nbsp;14 Voice and votes: Gender, power and politics.-&nbsp;15 Political identity development in a changing world.-&nbsp;16 Nonverbal cues in leadership.-&nbsp;17 Inclusion of conservatives in science: Acknowledging liberal and conservative social cognition to improve public science attitudes.-&nbsp;18 Can we deliberate?&nbsp; How motivated reasoning undermines Democratic deliberation and what we can do about it.-&nbsp;19 American national identity: Issues of race, culture, social class, gender and politics affected by social change.-&nbsp;20 "Authoritarian responses to social change:&nbsp;Psychological mechanisms underlying the election of Donald Trump.-&nbsp;21 Psychological mechanisms underlying the populist threat to democracy.-&nbsp;22 Trumped: Making sense of the “Narcissist-in-Chief”.-&nbsp;23 Psychological reactions to “House of Cards”: The role of transportation and identification.-&nbsp;24 Political betrayal, political agency, and international politics.-&nbsp;25 (De)humanization of Muslim immigrants: Newspaper discourse and public responses during the UK 2015 general election.-&nbsp;26 Quantitative and qualitative methods of predicting geopolitical events.-&nbsp;27 Control and counter-control in Brazilian public policies: Conjectures from a humanist-contextualist behaviorism.</p><div><br></div>