2. What do you know about
Political Psychology?
Politics is the set of activities that are
associated with making decisions in
groups, or other forms of power
relations among individuals, such as
the distribution of resources or status.
Psychology is the scientific study of
the human mind and its functions,
especially those affecting behavior in a
given context.
3. Political Psychology
-
is a field of social scientific study that
draws on political science,
psychology, economics, sociology,
business, and several other fields of
study.
4. Political Psychology
- it is a social scientific study that
investigates the psychological
underpinnings and consequences of
political movements or behavior of
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.
5. The roots of Political Psychology can be
traced back to the 1940s when
psychoanalytic research into
personality and politics became
fashionable.
In more recent times, however political
psychologists have tended to embrace
the scientific method as a way of
understanding and predicting political
behavior and the discipline has grown
increasingly important and influential
as a result.
6. What is ISPP?
> ISPP is a non-profit organization
that was founded in 1978. It aims
to explore the relationship between
psychological and political
phenomena, increase the
awareness and understanding of
political psychology, and nurture
communication across
boundaries.
8. 1. Social Dominance
> Social dominance theories
explore our preference for and
acceptance of inequality among
different social groups. Beliefs
about social dominance can
influence our beliefs and social
behavior and can lead to
prejudice.
9. 2. Group Behavior
> When we study group behavior, we
look at the way that being in the
presence of others can change our
cognition or behavior. Being around a
certain group influences us to think in
a certain way, or to stop thinking in a
certain way. To this end, political
psychology incorporates certain theories
of group behavior like deindividuation,
and ingroup bias.
10. 3. Conspiracy Theories
> Political psychology examines the
psychological reasoning that leaves
people more vulnerable to believing
conspiracy theories or to a
conspiracy mindset. It also looks at
the influence conspiracy theories
have over our thinking, actions,
and political behavior.
11. Importance of Political
Psychology
> Political psychology is important
because politics is central to our lives
as well as to the politicians for
management and leading society to be
peace, democracy and prosperity.
Only by understanding how
people see themselves in relation to
others can we begin to build a science
of politics that allows for the human
needs to both protect and further our
self-interest and to respond to our
needs for social ability.
12. Importance of Political
Psychology
The politics is our future. It’s
impacted to our living on freedom ,
basic human right, economic
marketing, communication
relationship and globalization. So
all the people must participate to
know and work for all human
right, safety, freedom and social
security.
13. Questions:
1. Why do peole behave the
way they do in politics?
2. Why do presidents make
the decisions they do?
