Politische Psychologie

It is the task of political psychology to examine political behaviour from a psychological or socio-psychological perspective. Its topics include the analysis of political elites, especially their personalities, motives and actions, political leadership, foreign policy decision-making processes, international and ethnic conflicts and their pacification, terrorism, the conditions of collective action, group behaviour, political socialisation and attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices, electoral behaviour, political communication and information processing, media effects and public opinion. In this handbook, which is now available in its 2nd revised and expanded edition, renowned international and German-speaking representatives of political psychology present the thematic spectrum of this sub-discipline in German for the first time.
The handbook is aimed at students and teachers of political psychology, political science, psycholo-gy and social psychology as well as all those interested in the topics and theoretical approaches of political psychology.
With contributions by
Kai Arzheimer, Daniel Bar-Tal, Simon Bein, Klaus Boehnke, Franziska Deutsch, Yohanan Eshel, Ofer Feldman, Stanley Feldman, Cornelia Frank, Henrik Gast, Raynee Gutting, Katja Hanke, Sascha Huber, Leonie Huddy, Anke Hufer-Thamm, Rajiv S. Jhangiani, Christian Kandler, Shaul Kimhi, Angela Kindervater, Bernhard Leidner, Mengyao Li, Brian Lickel, Jürgen Maier, Michael F. Meffert, Michaela Pfundmair, Jerrold M. Post, Anna-Maria Renner, Rainer Riemann, Susanne Rippl, Tobias Rothmund, Christian Seipel, Markus Steinbrecher, Peter Suedfeld, Linda R. Tropp, Soli Vered and Sonja Zmerli.