Leonie Huddy is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University. She served as co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2005 till 2010, is past-president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), serves on the American National Election Studies Board, appears regularly on CSB Radio as an exit poll analyst, and serves on numerous editorial boards in political science. Huddy has written extensively on social and political identities, emotions, reactions to terrorism, gender and politics, and race relations. She is the co-author of Going to War in Iraq: When Citizens and the Press Matter (2015, with Stanley Feldman and George Marcus).

David O. Sears is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science, former Dean of Social Sciences, and former Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, all at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sears received his B.A. in History from

Stanford University, his Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from Yale University in 1962, and since then has taught at UCLA. He has held visiting faculty positions at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and twice at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. His books include Public Opinion (1964, with Robert E. Lane), The Politics of Violence: The New Urban Blacks and the Watts Riot (1973, with John B. McConahay), Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (1982, with Jack Citrin), Social Psychology (12 editions from 1970 to 2006, with Shelley E. Taylor and L. Anne Peplau), Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (2010, with Michael Tesler), and American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2014, with Jack Citrin).

Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers

University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses on the causes of interstate war, foreign policy decision-making, and political psychology. Levy is past president of the International Studies Association (ISA) (2007-08) and of the Peace Science Society (2005-06). He received the Helen Dwight Reid (now Merze Tate) Award for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975-76 from the American Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Foreign Policy Analysis Section (2000), and the Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from ISA's International Security Studies Section (2022). Levy is co-author of Causes of War (2010, with W. R. Thompson) and of The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011).

Jennifer Jerit is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. She has taught Experimental Methods

at the Summer Methods School at the National University of Singapore and at the University of Vienna. Jerit is a co-editor at the Journal of Experimental Political Science and serves on the American National Election Studies Board and numerous editorial boards in political science. She has written on political knowledge, misinformation, political communication, survey methodology, and experimental design.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Political Psychology


• Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit


• PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES


• Chapter 2: Personality Approaches to Political Behavior


• Bert N. Bakker


• Chapter 3: Childhood and Adult Political Development


• David O. Sears and Christia Brown


• Chapter 4: Rational Choice as an Empirical and Normative Model of Political Behavior


• Dennis Chong


• Chapter 5: Political Decision-Making


• Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk


• Chapter 6: Emotion and Political Psychology


• Ted Brader and Shana Gadarian


• Chapter 7: The Evolutionarily Approach to Political Psychology


• Michael Bang Petersen


• Chapter 8: Biology and Politics


• Jaime Settle and Laurel Detert


• Chapter 9: Political Language


• Nick Hopkins


• PART II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS


• Chapter 10: Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Psychological Dimension


• Jack S. Levy


• Chapter 11: Perceiving Threat: Cognition, Emotion, and Judgment


• Janice Gross Stein


• Chapter 12: Signaling, Resolve, and Reputation in International Politics


• Don Casler and Keren Yarhi-Milo


• Chapter 13: Public Opinion about Foreign Policy


• Joshua D. Kertzer


• Chapter 14: The Political Psychology of Terrorism


• Keren L.G. Snider, Ryan Shandler, Sharon Matzkin, and Daphna Canetti


• PART III: MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR


• Chapter 15: Information Processing


• Jennifer Jerit and Cindy D. Kam


• Chapter 16: Political Communication


• Dannagal G. Young and Joanne M. Miller


• Chapter 17: The Psychological and Social Foundations of Ideological Belief Systems


• Christopher M. Federico and Ariel Malka


• Chapter 18: Morality as the Enduring Basis of Public Opinion


• Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom


• Chapter 19: The Political Psychology of Gender


• Monica C. Schneider and Angela L. Bos


• Chapter 20: Authoritarianism and Political Conflict


• Stanley Feldman and Christopher Weber


• Chapter 21: National Identity, Patriotism, and Nationalism


• Leonie Huddy


• Chapter 22: The Social Identity Approach to Leadership


• Frank Mols, A. Alexander Haslam, Michael J. Platow, Stephen D. Reicher, and Niklas K. Steffens


• PART IV: INTERGROUP RELATIONS


• Chapter 23: Group-Based Hierarchies of Power and Status


• Maureen A. Craig and L. Taylor Phillips


• Chapter 24: Political Identities


• Lilliana Mason


• Chapter 25: The Gaze From Below: Toward a Political Psychology of Minority Status


• Efrén O. Pérez and Bianca V. Vicuña


• Chapter 26: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Collective Action


• Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte


• Chapter 27: Prejudice and Politics


• Donald R. Kinder


• Chapter 28: Migration and Multiculturalism


• Eva G. T. Green and Christian Staerklé


• Chapter 29: Prejudice Reduction and Social Change: Dual Goals to be Pursued in Tandem


• Linda R. Tropp and Trisha A. Dehrone


• Chapter 30: Emotional Processes in Intractable Conflicts


• Smadar Cohen-Chen and Eran Halperin


• Index