Book Description
This book is about how individuals make political decisions and form impressions of politicians and policies, with a strong emphasis on the role of the mass media in those processes.
Author : George Comstock
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2005-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0121835529
This book is about how individuals make political decisions and form impressions of politicians and policies, with a strong emphasis on the role of the mass media in those processes.
Author : Ann N. Crigler
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Leading scholars explore how the mass media, elites, and the public construct political messages
Author : Ofer Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429947305
In this timely study, Ofer Feldman, Sonja Zmerli, and their team of experts shed light on the multiple ways communication affects political behavior and attitudes. Written for students and scholars alike, The Psychology of Political Communicators uses examples from the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to examine the nature, characteristics, content, and reception of communication in three major areas of discourse: The style and nature of language used by political actors in the national and international arenas The discourse used in nationalist populist movements and during negative campaigns The rhetoric of the media as it tries to frame politics, political events, and political actors Collectively, the essays form a solid foundation on which to understand the different roles language plays in the conduct of politics, the way in which these roles are performed in various situations in different societies and cultures, and the political outcomes of verbal behavior. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political psychology and communication studies.
Author : George Comstock
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080454259
Research indicates that people discount their own opinions and experiences in favor of those of "experts" as espoused in the media. The framing of news coverage thus has a profound impact on public opinion, and political decision making as a response to public outcry. However, the choice of how to frame the news is typically made to solicit viewership and high ratings rather than to convey accurate and meaningful information. The Psychology of Media and Politics discusses why people discount their own opinions, how the media shapes the news, when this drives political decision making, and what the effect is on the future of society. Issues addressed include: - How powerful are the media in shaping political beliefs/judgment? - How has this power changed in recent years? - How does media influence voting behavior? - To what extent do media opinions affect political decision making? - Demonstrates the ways in which the media both constrain and facilitate democratic participation - Provides insight into why individuals have varying levels of attention to and interest in politics - Discusses such issues as political advertising, polls, debates, and journalists' pursuit of scandal - Describes why only some Americans turn out to vote in prominent elections - Offers a model of personal- versus social-level influences that extends beyond politics into other important topic areas - Brings together research and theories from the fields of Communication, Psychology, and Political Science - Reviews hundreds of key sources, both historical and contemporary
Author : Anna Borgos
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9633862825
Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in different ways since the early twentieth century. Here in twenty-two essays scholars address a variety of these intersections from a historical perspective. The chapters include such diverse topics as the cultural history of psychoanalysis, the complicated relationship between psychoanalysis and the occult, and the struggles for dominance between the various schools of psychology. They show the ambivalent positions of the "psy" sciences in the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes of Nazi Germany, East European communism, Latin-American military dictatorships, and South African apartheid, revealing the crucial role of psychology in legitimating and "normalizing" these regimes. The authors also discuss the ideological and political aspects of mental health and illness in Hungary, Germany, post-WW1 Transylvania, and Russia. Other chapters describe the attempt by critical psychology to understand the production of academic, therapeutic, and everyday psychological knowledge in the context of the power relations of modern capitalist societies.
Author : Barry Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351375725
How do some political leaders capture popular support? What is the appeal of belonging to a nation? Can democracy thrive? The Psychology of Politics explores how the emotions which underpin everyday life are also vital in what happens on the political stage. It draws on psychoanalytic ideas to show how fear and passion shape the political sphere in our changing societies and cultures, and examines topical social issues and events including Brexit, the changing nature of democracy, activism, and Trump in America. In a changing global political climate, The Psychology of Politics shows us how we can make sense of what drives human conduct in relation to political ideas and action.
Author : Joseph P. Forgas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317508998
Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics, featuring cutting-edge research from a stellar group of international researchers. It is organized into four main sections that deal with political attitudes and values; political communication and perceptions; social cognitive processes in political decisions; and the politics of intergroup behavior and social identity. The contributions address such exciting questions as how do political attitudes and values develop and change? What role do emotions and moral values play in political behavior? How do political messages and the media influence political perceptions? What are the psychological requirements of effective democratic decision making, and why do democracies sometimes fail? How can intergroup harmony be developed, and what is the role of social identity in political processes? As such, this volume integrates the role of cognitive, affective, social and cultural influences on political perception and behavior, offering an overview of the psychological mechanisms underlying political processes. It provides essential reading for teachers, students, researchers and practitioners in areas related to power, social influence and political behavior.
Author : Jarret T. Crawford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351622552
Social scientists have long known that political beliefs bias the way they think about, understand, and interpret the world around them. In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases to influence their research. These biases may influence the development of research hypotheses, the design of studies and methods and materials chosen to test hypotheses, decisions to publish or not publish results based on their consistency with one’s prior political beliefs, and how results are described and dissemination to the popular press. The fact that these processes occur within academic disciplines, such as social psychology, that strongly skew to the political left compounds the problem. Contributors to this volume not only identify and document the ways that social psychologists’ political beliefs can and have influenced research, but also offer solutions towards a more depoliticized social psychology that can become a model for discourse across the social sciences.
Author : Doris A. Graber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226924769
How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public? Processing Politics shows that average Americans are far smarter than the critics believe. Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence), Doris Graber shows that televised presentations—at their best—actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. She critiques current political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capacities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet. More and more people rely on information from television and the Internet to make important decisions. Processing Politics offers a sound, well-researched defense of these remarkably versatile media, and challenges us to make them work for us in our democracy.
Author : Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415510260
Within the context of shifting social bonds in global culture, this book brings together debates on the left from political philosophy, psychoanalysis, social psychology and media and cultural studies to explore the logic of the formation of collective identities from a new theoretical perspective.