Poli 323: Political Psychology & Populism

University of Victoria-Summer 2017

Course website: polpsy.ca

Looking for insight into the populist wave of populism sweeping the world? This course

provides a broad introduction to the field of political psychology, focussing on classic

and contemporary perspectives. It examines essential ideas and findings useful in

understanding populist political actors and their supporters.

Contact Information

Joseph Fletcher

UVic Office: David Turpin Building A334

Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:15-1:30pm

UVic email: josephf@uvic.ca

I may also be contacted at: josephf@ucsc.edu or josephf@chass.utoronto.ca

In any case, please contact me using your UVic email address**

Course Readings: Most required and recommended readings for this course are available online or will be

made available through links in the course outline. The sole exception to this is:

Joseph LeDoux.The Emotional Brain, Simon & Schuster, 1996.

It is available, however, at a very reasonable price through Amazon.

Recommended Political Psychology Texts: David Patrick Houghton, Political Psychology, 2nd edition Routledge, 2014;

The 2009 first edition is available freely at:

https://tsu.ge/data/file_db/faculty_psychology/Political_Psychology.pdf

Cristian Tileaga, Political Psychology: Critical Perspectives, Cambridge, 2013.

Other Recent Texts: Martha Cottam, et al., Introduction to Political Psychology 3rd edition Psychology Press,

2015;

Leonie Huddy et al., The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology 2nd edition, Oxford,

2013;

George Marcus, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics and Politics, Oxford,

2013;

Ashley Weinberg, The Psychology of Politicians, Cambridge, 2012;

Catarina Kinnvall et al. The Palgrave Handbook Of Global Political Psychology Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014.

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Goals

The course will acquaint students with key theories and findings in the study of

psychology that shed light on politics. The primary goal is to develop critical analytic and

synthetic skills needed to interpret social and political life. By engaging with the theories

and experiments of leading psychological figures, students will gain an understanding of

many conceptual tools useful in understanding our world. And by applying these

concepts to the study of politics, students will better appreciate the challenges and

opportunities of an interdisciplinary approach. Moreover, in reviewing the methods

employed in the field of political psychology, students will gain greater insight into

strengths and limitations of contemporary social science.

Each time this course is offered a particular political focus is selected to which the

psychological approaches covered in the course are applied. In past these have included

civil liberties, political tolerance, racism, intelligence testing, political radicalization,

terror and egalitarianism. This term the focus will be upon populism.

Course Outline

Please note that dates are approximate and hence subject to change.

May 9: Introduction & Overview of Political Psychology

*Susana Stone 2014. “Overview: Political Psychology” WIREs Cognitive Science 5:373–

385.

http://www-

bcf.usc.edu/~jessegra/papers/Stone%20et%20al.Political%20Psychology%20review.pdf

No Evidence of a Replicability Crisis in Psychological Science. Link

John Sullivan et al. 2002.“The Contours of Political Psychology, pp 23-47 in James

Kuklinski, ed., Thinking about Political Psychology. Sullivan Contours Link.

Howard Lavine 2010. “A Sketch of Political Psychology.” In Howard Lavine

(ed.), Political Psychology, Volume I: Theoretical Approaches. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

www.sagepub.com/upm-data/33601_Lavine.pdf

Lavine Sketch Link

Leone Huddy et al. 2013. “Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Political Psychology

in Leone Huddy et al. The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology 2nd edition, Oxford,

2013.

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199760107.001.0001/oxf

ordhb-9780199760107-e-001

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 1-2.

May 11: Populism

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*Jan-Werner Muller, 2013 “Reflections on Populism”

https://cuptw.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/cu-populism-jwmueller-13nov2013-3.pdf

*John Judis, 2016. “Rethinking Populism” Dissent Fall 2016

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/rethinking-populism-laclau-mouffe-podemos

*Albertazzi, Danielle and McDonnell, Duncan, 2015. Populists in Power. Routledge.

https://www.book2look.com/embed/9781317535027

Trevor Harrison, 1995. Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform

Party of Canada. University of Toronto Press.

John B. Judis, 2016. The Populist Explosion. NY: Columbia Global Reports.

Ernesto Laclau, 2005. On Populist Reason, NY: Verso.

http://eagainst.com/articles/ernesto-laclau-on-populist-reason/

David Laycock, 1990. Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian

Prairies, 1910-1945. University of Toronto Press.

Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017. Populism: A Very Short Introduction,

Oxford University Press.

Jan-Werner Müller. 2015. What is Populism? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania

Press.

*Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, 2017. "How Does Populism Turn Authoritarian? New

York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/world/americas/venezuela-populism-

authoritarianism.html

*Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, 2017. " Western Populism May Be Entering an

Awkward Adolescence," New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/europe/populism-far-from-turned-back-may-

be-just-getting-started.html

*Charles Krathammer, 2017. "Populism on Pause". Washington Post

http://www.montereyherald.com/opinion/20170427/charles-krauthammer-populism-on-

pause

or

https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../populism-on-pause/.../c9aa2edc-2b7b-11e7-be51-b...

*Jeremy Ashkenas and Gregor Aisch, 2016. "European Populism in the Age of Donald

Trump."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/world/europe/100000004804244.mobil

e.html?_r=1

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Thomas Grevin, 2016. "The Rise of Right-wing Populism and the United States,"

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Foundation)

http://www.fesdc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/RightwingPopulism.pdf

Eric Oliver and Wendy M. Rahn, 2016. Rise of theTrumpenvolk: Populism in the 2016

Election. Annals American Academy of Social and Political Science Vol 667, Issue 1.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/09/trumps-voters-

arent-authoritarians-new-research-says-so-what-are-they/?utm_term=.4d8669e71be6

Pierre-Andre Taguieff, 2016. "The revolt Against the Elites, or the New Populist

Wave" Telos. 25 June.

http://www.telospress.com/the-revolt-against-the-elites-or-the-new-populist-wave-an-

interview/

Bram Spruyt et al. 2016. "Who Supports Populism and What Attracts People to

It?" Political Research Quarterly. Vol 69(2) 335-46.

Uri Friedman 2017. "What is a Populist? And is Donald Trump one?" The Atlantic Feb

27. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/02/what-is-populist-

trump/516525/

Part I Classic Psychological Approaches

May 16: Psychoanalytic

*Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1933. Lecture 31.

http://users.ipfw.edu/jacksonj/PSY420readings/Freud%20%281933%29%20Dissection%

20of%20the%20Psychical%20Personality.pdf

or

www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Freud%20NIL%20L33%20Dissection.pdf

*Sigmund Freud, “Libidinal Types” In Character and Culture freud-lib-types

*----------, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Lecture VII & VIII

http://freudians.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Freud_Group_Psychology.pdf

or

*Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology, Lecture VII Freud-Identif & Lecture

VIII Love&Hypnosis

*http://psychcentral.com/lib/15-common-defense-mechanisms/

Sigmund Freud, The Origin and Development of

Psychoanalysis http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Origin/origin1.htm

Harold Lasswell, 1930. Psychopathology and Politics, University of Chicago Press.

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Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures, Lecture

XXXII http://pep.gvpi.net/document.php?id=se.022.0000a

______, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1920.

______, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930.

Paul Robinson, 1993. Freud and His Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4w10062x;query=;brand=ucpres

s

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 7.

*David Gergen, What Explains Donald Trump's Arrogance?

http://davidgergen.com/davids-latest/what-explains-donald-trumps-arrogance/

Eli Zaretsky, 2017. "Populism and Freudian Mass Psychology: Three Paradoxes"

http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/01/populism-and-freudian-mass-

psychology/#.WQeNmInytsN

or

http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-three-paradoxes-of-populism-and-freudian-mass-

psychology/

Ernesto Laclau, 2005. On Populist Reason, NY: Verso. pp 52-74.

http://eagainst.com/articles/ernesto-laclau-on-populist-reason/ (a messy version of the

whole book); Laclau on Freud ( a cleaner version of the relevant pages).

May 18: Behavioral

*Ivan P.Pavlov, 1927.Conditioned Reflexes, Lectures 2-

4. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Pavlov/

*B.F. Skinner, 1971(2002). Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapters 2 & 6.

http://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-&-Dignity-1971.pdf

B.F. Skinner. (1935). "Two types of conditioned reflex and a pseudo type." Journal of

General Psychology, 12, 66-

77. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Twotypes/twotypes.htm

B.F. Skinner. (1937). "Two types of conditioned reflex: A reply to Konorski and

Miller". Journal of General Psychology, 16, 272-

279. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/ReplytoK/reply.htm, , 1948.

B.F. Skinner. 1948. Walden Two.

B.F. Skinner. Behaviorism at 50.

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Alexandra Rutherford, 2009. Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner’s Technology of Behavior.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 3,

Summary of A Review of BF Skinner’s Verbal Behavior by Noam Chomsky

*Kindler, 2016. "The People Who Conditioned You to Hate Hillary.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/19/1540275/-The-People-Who-Conditioned-You-

to-Hate-Hillary-Part-II-Citizens-United

Max Visser, 2016. "Voting: A Behavioral Analysis".

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254859830_Voting_A_Behavioral_Analysis

Ernesto Laclau, 2005. On Populist Reason, NY: Verso. pp 24-30.

http://eagainst.com/articles/ernesto-laclau-on-populist-reason/

May 23: Humanist

*Abraham Maslow, 1943. "A theory of motivation".

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

*Abraham Maslow, 1954. Motivation and Personality

http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/ Preface & Chapter 11.

click on the ebooks link and then look for Maslow

Abraham Maslow, 1972. Toward a Psychology of Being.

Abraham Maslow, 1971 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.

Edward Hoffman, 1988. The Right to be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow.

Mark Kolko-Rivera, 2006. "Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of

Needs: Self -Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research and

Unification" Review of General Psychology 10(4), 302-317.

*Luis Durani, 2016. "The Teflon Don of Politics. Donald Trump and Maslow."

http://usa.moderndiplomacy.eu/2016/03/the-teflon-don-of-politics-donald-trump-and-

maslow/

*Phil Fragasso, 2016. "Abraham Maslow on Trump and Trump Voters."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-fragasso/abraham-maslow-on-

trump_b_11455342.html

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Ingrid Laas, 2006. "Self Actualization and Society: A New Application for an Old

Theory," Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vol 46 (1) January, 77-

91.Maslow&PopulistMovemts

Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, 2016. "Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Populism:

Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash," Harvard Kennedy School Faculty

Research Working Paper. Populism-Inglehart&Norris or at:

https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/Index.aspx

(see here also her 2017 paper on "Is Democracy Backsliding) also

consider: https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/3/27/15037232/trump-populist-

appeal-culture-economy)

May 25: Quiz 1 & Preparing Paper 1

Part II Recent Psychological Approaches

May 30: Post War Personality Theory

Authoritarianism

*Theodore Adorno 1949. The Authoritarian Personality

http://www.ajcarchives.org/main.php?GroupingId=6490

Read Chapters 1 & 7 and skim Chapter 9

Roger Brown, Social Psychology, 1965. 1st edition, TAP. skim

Bob. Altemeyer, 1988. Enemies of Freedom .

H.D. Forbes, 1985. Nationalism, Ethnocentrism and Personality.

Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, 2009. Authoritarianism and Polarization in

American Politics .

William Kreml, 1977. The Anti-Authoritarian Personality.

Stanley Renshon and John Duckitt, 2000. Political Psychology. Chapters 6 & 7.

Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto. 1999. Social dominance: an integral theory of social

hierarchy and oppression. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Joel E Dimsdale. 2016. Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals.

Yale.

http://www.uctv.tv/shows/Anatomy-of-Malice-The-Enigma-of-the-Nazi-War-Criminals-

with-Joel-Dimsdale-The-Library-Channel-30898

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-

trump/480771/

*Matthew McWilliams, 2016. "The one weird trait that predicts where you're a Trump

supporter."

Politico, January 17. click here

Matthew C. MacWilliams. 2016.“Who Decides When the Party Doesn’t? Authoritarian

Voters and the Rise of Donald Trump.” PS: Political Science & Politics. (October).

Matthew MacWilliams 2016. The Rise of Trump. Amherst College Press. Downloadable

book here

https://acpress.amherst.edu/the-rise-of-trump/

*Thomas Edsall, 2016. "The Eternal Return of Unenlightened Despotism". New York

Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/opinion/campaign-stops/the-eternal-return-of-

unenlightened-despotism.html

*Jonathan Weiler. 2015. "Demystifying the Trump Coalition: It's the

Authoritarianism." Huffington Post December 8. click here

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 8.

The Big 5

*Alan S. Gerber et al, (2011) "The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena,"

Annual Review of Political Science 14:265–287. (skim)

http://www.matchism.org/refs/Gerber_2011_Big5Political.pdf

Jeffrey Mondak. 2015. Personality and the Foundations of Political Behaviour.

Cambridge University Press.

Jeffery J. Mondak, et al, 2010 “Personality and Civic Engagement: An Inegrative

Frameword fot the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behaviour” American Political

Science Review 104 (February): 85-110.

Bryce J. Dietrich, et al., (2012). “Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait

Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators.” Political Psychology Vol. 33, No. 2 (April

2012), pp. 195-210

James Dennison, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/populist-personalities-the-big-

five-personality-traits-and-party-choice-in-the-2015-uk-general-election/

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*Bert N. Bakker et al. (2016). "The Psychological Roots of Populist Voting: Evidence

from the United States, The Netherlands and Germany," European Journal of Political

Research, vol 55, 302-20. Skim

Amanda Taub, 2016., "The Rise of American Authoritarianism"

http://pscourses.ucsd.edu/ps108/14%20Rise%20of%20Donald%20Trump/Taub%202016

-%20The%20rise%20of%20American%20authoritarianism.pdf

Dan P. MacAdams, 2016. The Mind of Donald Trump" The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-

trump/480771/

June 1: Social Psychology

* Solomon E. Asch, 1955. “Opinions and Social 14 Pressure.” Scientific American 193:

31-35.

www.lucs.lu.se/wp.../02/Asch-1955-Opinions-and-Social-Pressure.pdf

or

www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace/w1001/readings/asch.pdf

*Muzafer Sherif on Groups http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Sherif/

Ch 8, skim the rest

*Milgram on Obedience

http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/phys4910/readings/ethics/PerilsofObedience.html

or

academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/social_dilemmas/fall/.../milgram.pdf

Jerry Burger. 2009. “Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today?” American

Psychologist.

Stanley Milgram. 1963. “Behavioral Study of Obedience.” Journal of Abnormal and

Social Psychology.

Arthur G. Miller. 2016. "Why are the Milgram Obedience Experiments Still So

Extraordinarily Famous--and Controversial?" in Arthur Miller, ed., The Social

Psychology of Good and Evil, Second Edition. Guilford.

Martin Seligman on Learned

Helplessness http://tsukany.tripod.com/EPSY5463/helpless.html

Serge Moscovici on Minority Influence

Phillip Zimbardo, "A Pirandellian Prison" http://prisonexp.org/pdf/pirandellian.pdf

Philip Zimbardo,. Stanford Prison Guard Experiment http://www.prisonexp.org/

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Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org/

Thomas Carnahan & Sam McFarland, “Revisiting the Stanford Prison

Experiment.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2007 Jun;33(6):911.

Craig Haney and Philip G Zimbardo. 2009 “Persistent dispositionalism in interactionist

clothing: fundamental attribution error in explaining prison abuse.” Personality and

Social Psychology Bulletin. 35:807-14.

Irving Janis, Group Think 2nd ed 1982.(Houghton Mifflin).

Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie, (2015). Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make

Groups Smarter. Harvard Business Review Press.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 4-6.

Author unclear, 2015. "The Trump phenomenon" 2015

http://akinokure.blogspot.ca/2015/07/the-trump-phenomenon.html

Author unclear, "Brexit has shattered conformity:Americans now feel validated in voting

for nationalism and populism"

http://akinokure.blogspot.ca/2016/06/brexit-has-shattered-conformity.html

June 6: Social Cognition

Cognitive Dissonance

*Leon Festinger and Merrill Carlsmith, 1959. "Cognitive Consequences of Forced

Compliance" http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Festinger/

or

Phillip Zimbardo (video)."A lesson in Cognitive Dissonance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korGK0yGIDo

*Saul A.McLeod. (2010). “Attribution Theory.” Retrieved

from http://www.simplypsychology.org/attribution-theory.html

*Attribution Theory

Harold H. Kelley and John L. Michela 1980. “Attribution Theory and Research”

Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 31: 457-501

Harold H. Kelley. 1967. “Attribution Theory in Social Psychology”. Nebraska

Symposium on Motivation. 15192-238.

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Bernard Weiner, 1985. ”An Attributional Theory of Achievement Motivation and

Emotion”. Psychological Review, 92(4), 548-573.

Lee Ross. (1977). “The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the

attribution process.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 10, 173-220.

Edward Ellsworth Jones and Richard E. Nisbett. 1971.The actor and the observer:

Divergent Perceptions of the Causes of Behavior. Morristown, NJ: General Learning

Press.

Daryl J. Bem. 1972. "Self-perception theory." Advances in experimental social

psychology 6:1-62.

Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor, Social Cognition, 1984, 1991, Chapters 1-4.

John Zaller and Stanley Feldman "Asking Questions Versus Revealing

Preferences.” American Journal of Political Science 36: 579-616.

Martin Seligman, 1975. Helplessness: On Depression, development, and death.

Martin_Seligman_-_Learned_Helplessness

Richard Yalch, 1975. "Attribution Theory and Voter Choice" Advances in Consumer

Research Vol 2. 783-92. http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/5802/volumes/v02/NA-02.

Gail Sahar. 2014. "On the Importance of Attribution Theory in Political

Psychology." Social and Political Psychology Compass 8/5, 229-49.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262026893_On_the_Importance_of_Attribution

_Theory_in_Political_Psychology

Lauren Hazzouri, 2016. "Back to School Lesson: Fundamental Attribution Error"

https://ivankatrump.com/lauren-hazzouri-fundamental-attribution-error/

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 9.

Prospect Theory

C. Lawrence Evans, 2016. "Trump's voters are ready to risk everything.

Why?" Washington Post, March 14. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-

cage/wp/2016/03/14/trumps-voters-are-ready-to-risk-everything-

why/?utm_term=.f3547987b252

Michael Tesler and John Sides, 2016. "How political science helps explain the rise of

Trump: the role of white identity and grievances," Washington Post, March 3.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/03/how-political-

science-helps-explain-the-rise-of-trump-the-role-of-white-identity-and-

grievances/?tid=a_inl-amp&utm_term=.d88b6f19dfc0

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Sebastian Mallaby 2016. "Trump is only a sign of our times," Washington Post March

29.

http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post-

sunday/20160529/281883002589505

Glenn W. Harrison & Don Ross, 2017. "The empirical adequacy of cumulative prospect

theory and its implications for normative assessment," Journal of Economic

Methodology, pp 1-16/ Abstract:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1309753?scroll=top&need

Access=true

Full article: see Prof Fletcher.

*http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/1/1628099/-Cartoon-Trump-supporters-

cognitive-dissonance

Attribution Theory and Media Elites. http://halginsberg.com/attribution-theory-and-

media-elites/

June 8: Neuropsychology I

*Joseph LeDoux The Emotional Brain, Chapters 1-5.

*Antoine Bechera et al., Deciding Advantageously before knowing the advantageous

strategy. Science vol 275, 1293-1295. www.labsi.org/cognitive/Becharaetal1997.pdf

Joseph LeDoux (1995). "Emotion: Clues from the Brain." Annual Review of

Psychology 46: 209-35.

Joseph LeDoux The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, 2002.

Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain 1994

Chapts, 1-6.

Mark F. Bear et al., Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 2nd edition, Baltimore:

Lippincott,

George Marcus et al. 2000. Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment, Chicago, 2000.

John A. Barge and Tanya L. Chartrand, 1999. “The Unbearable Automaticity of

Being.” The American Psychologist 54(7): 462-479.

Robert B. Zajonc, 1980. “Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need No

Inferences.” American Psychologist 35: 151-175.

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June 13: Neuropsychology II

*Joseph LeDoux The Emotional Brain, Chapters 6-9.

Joseph LeDoux 2012. “Rethinking the Emotional Brain” Neuron, 73:4, 653-676.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312001298

Joseph LeDoux. 2015. “Feelings: What They Are and How Does the Brain Make Them?”

Daedalus 144:1, 96-111.

Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error 1994, Chapters 7-11 and postscript.

Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens

George Marcus, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics and Politics, Oxford,

2013.

Dustin Tingley 2006 "Neurological Imaging As Evidence in Political Science: A Review,

Critique, and Guiding Assessment" Social Science Information, 45:5-33.

John Jost et al., 2014. “Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship”

Advances in Political Psychology, Vol 35. Suppl I: 3-

42. http://psych.nyu.edu/jost/Political%20Neuroscience_The%20Beginning%20of%20a

%20Beautiful%20Friendship.pdf

Christopher Dawes et al., 2012. "The Neural Basis of Egalitarian Behavior" Proceedings

of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (17) April 24: 6479-6483.

Anita Tusche et al 2013 "Automatic Processing of Political Preferences in the Human

Brain" NeuroImage 72: 174-8.

Shane O'Mara, 2015. Why Torture Doesn't Work. Harvard. (excerpts on publisher

website)

Richard Shenkman, 2016. Political Animals. Basic pp 53-68.

Katherine Linderman 2016. "Could Neuroscience Explain What Trump Voters are

Thinking?" https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/could-neuroscience-explain-what-

trump-voters-are-thinking

Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2016. Us versus Them. How Neurophilosophy explains our divided

politics." World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/us-versus-

them-how-neurophilosophy-explains-populism-racism-and-extremism/

R. Douglas Fields, 2016. "A Neuroscience Perspective on Brexit," Psychology Today, 26

June.

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-brain/201606/neuroscience-perspective-

brexit

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 10, 11 (165-75).

Astrid Ghap 2017. "The raise of populism, the demise of slow thinkers".

https://astridghap.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/the-raise-of-populism-the-demise-of-slow-

thinkers/

June 15: Quiz 2 & Preparing Paper 2

Part III Contemporary Topics

June 20: Ethnocentrism and (In)tolerance

*Ted Brader et al. (2008). What triggers public opposition to immigration? Anxiety,

group cues and immigration threat. American Journal of political science, 52 (4), 959-

978.

available online (through UVic or UCSC library).

*Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus,and Rune Stubager (2014).

Introduction in Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe and the Danish

Cartoon Crisis. Ch 1.

David Zucchino 2016 “I’ve Become a Racist’: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions

Over Identity." New York Times September 5, 2016.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/world/europe/denmark-migrants-refugees-

racism.html

Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam. 2010. Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations

of American Opinion. Chicago: University Chicago Press.

George Marcus et al., 1995.With Malice toward Some. Cambridge University Press.

James Gibson, 2002. “Becoming Tolerant?” British Journal of Political Science, vol 32,

309-324.

James Gibson & Amanda Gouws, 2002. Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa,

Cambridge, 2002.

Paul Sniderman et al, 2000. The Outsider, Princeton University Press.

Joseph Fletcher & Boris. Sergeyev, 2002. "Islam and Intolerance in Central Asia" Europe

Asia Studies.

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Harrison Gough and Pamela Brady. 1993. “Personal Attributes of People Described by

Others as Intolerant” in Paul Sniderman et al. Prejudice, Politics and the American

Dilemma. Stanford University Press .Intol People

*Jolanda Van der Noll, 2017. " Western Anti-Muslim Prejudice: Value Conflict or

Discrimination of Persons Too". Political Psychology (advance publication).

Steven Tuch and Michael Hughes, 2011. "On the Continuing Significance of Racial

Resentment".American Academy of Social and Political Science 634 134-52.

Edward Carmines et al. 2011. "On the Meaning, Measurement and Implications of Racial

Resentment." American Academy of Social and Political Science 634, 98-116.

carminesracialresentment

*Jonathan Rothwell. 2016. "Explaining Nationalist Views: The Case of Donald Trump."

Working Paper. rothwell_trump

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 15.

*"Trump and the Academy." The Economist. Sept 3, 2016.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21706341-political-science-refashions-

itself-deal-republican-nominee-trump-and

June 22: Implicit Attitudes & Dehumanization

*Implicit Association Test at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

*H. Arkes and P. Tetlock, (2004) “Attributions of Implicit Prejudice or ‘Would Jesse

Jackson Fail the Implicit Association Test’” Psychological Inquiry vol. 15 (4), 257-278.

*(skim)M.R. Banaji et al. (2004) No Place for Nostalgia in Science: A Response to Arkes

and Tetlock. Psychological inquiry 15 (4), 279-310.

Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes, Self-

esteem, and Stereotypes. Psychological Review, 102, 4-27.

*Lusana Harris and Susan Fiske (2006) "Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low:

Neuroimaging Responses to Extreme out Groups," Psychological Science, 17:847-53.

Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz and James Hedrick. 2013. “An introduction to Implicit

Attitudes in Political Science.” PS: Political Science and Politics 3: 525-31.

Lusana Harris and Susan Fiske (2007) "Social Groups That Elicit Disgust Are

Differentially Processed in MPFC" Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2:45-51.

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Nicholas Winter (2010) Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender in

American's explicit and implicit images of the political parties. Political

Behavior 32(4):587-618.

Joseph F. Fletcher. 2000. "Two Timing: Politics and Response Latency in a Bilingual

Survey," Political Psychology, 21:1 (March) 2000, 27-55.

John N. Bassili and Joseph F. Fletcher, 1991. "Response-Time Measurement in Survey

Research: A Method for CATI and a New Look at Non-Attitudes,” Public Opinion

Quarterly, 55: 4 (Winter) 1991, 331-346.

Efrén O. Pérez, 2010. "Explicit Evidence on the Import of Implicit Attitudes: The IAT

and Immigration Policy Judgements." Political Behavior 32(4):517-545.

Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz and James Hedrick 2013. "An Introduction to Implicit Attitudes

in Political Science Research." PS: Political Science & Politics. 46(3): 525-531.

Efrén O. Pérez, 2013. “Implicit Attitudes:Meaning, Measurement, and Synergy with

Political Science. Politics,” Politics, Groups, and Identities 1: 275-297.

Efrén O. Pérez, 2016. Unspoken Politics: Implicit Attitudes and Political Thinking.

Cambridge University Press.

Carlee Beth Hawkins and Brian A. Nosek. 2012. “Motivated Independence? Implicit

Party Identity Predicts Political Judgments Among Self-Proclaimed

Independents.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38: 1437-1452.

Bertram Gawronski et al. 2015. "What Can Political Psychology Learn from Implicit

Measures." Political Psychology. 36(1) 1-17.

*Jorg Matthes and Desiree Schmuck, 2015. "The Effects of Anti-Immigrant Right-Wing

Populist Ads on Implicit adn Explicit Attitudes," Communications Research March 1-26.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joerg_Matthes3/publication/277622400_The_Effect

s_of_Anti-Immigrant_Right-

Wing_Populist_Ads_on_Implicit_and_Explicit_Attitudes_A_Moderated_Mediation_Mo

del/links/5717e5ab08ae986b8b79e5a4.pdf

*Linda Bos, Penelope Sheets and Hajo G. Boomgaarden, 2017. "The Role of Implicit

Attitudes in Populist Radical-Right Support" Political Psychology, Link to Abstract Full

article through UVic library)

Richard Shenkman, 2016. Political Animals. Basic pp 197-209.

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June 27: Moral & Positive Psychology

*Jonathan Haidt, 2007. “The new synthesis in moral psychology.” Science 18 May

2007: Vol. 316 no. 5827 pp. 998-1002.

*(skim)Christopher L. Suhler and Patricia Churchland. 2011. “Can Innate, Modular

“Foundations” Explain Morality? Challenges for Haidt's Moral Foundations

Theory.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Vol. 23, (9): 2103-2116.

*(skim)Jonathan Haidt and Craig Joseph. 2011. “How Moral Foundations Theory

Succeeded in Building on Sand: A Response to Suhler and Churchland.” Journal of

Cognitive Neuroscience. Vol. 23, No. 9, Pages 2117-2122.

*Emily Ekins and Jonathan Haight, 2016. "Donald Trump Supporters Think about

Morality Differently than Other Voters: Here's

How," https://www.vox.com/2016/2/5/10918164/donald-trump-morality

Jonathan Haight Politics, Polarization and Populism

essays http://righteousmind.com/politics/see also his 2016 APA keynote address

Critiques of Moral Foundations Theory. http://www.moralfoundations.org/critiques

Chris Hedges.2012. “The Righteous Road to

Ruin.” http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page2/the_righteous_road_to_ruin_2012062

8.

Linda J. Skitka and G. Scott Morgan 2014. “The Social Implications of Moral

Conviction.” Advances in Political Psychology 35 (S1): 545-549.

Jonathan Haidt, 2012.The Righteous Mind. NY: Vintage

Daniel M. Bartels and David A. Pizzaro. 2011. The mismeasure of morals: Antisocial

personality traits predict utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas. Cognition. 121 (1):

154-161.

Paul H. Schoemaker and Phillip E. Tetlock. (2012). Taboo scenarios. California

Management Review 54/2. Vol. 54, p. 5-24.

Tamsim Shaw, 2016. "The Psychologists Take Power", New York Review of Books Feb

25, 38-41. Link.

Dennis Junk, 2016. "Why Tasmin Shaw Imagines the Psychologists are Taking

Power. Link

Moral Foundations by Ideology moral-foundations-by-ideology

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June 29: Back to Biology/Genetics?

*James H. Fowler and Christopher T. Dawes. 2008. "Two genes predict voter

turnout". Journal of Politics, 70:579-594.

*Evan Charney and William English. 2012. “Candidate Genes and Political

Behavior.” American Political Science Review 106 (1): 1–34.

*James H. Fowler and Christopher T. Dawes. 2013, “In Defense of

Genopolitics” American Political Science Review, 107:362-374. skim

Evan Charney and William English. 2013. “Genopolitics and the Science of

Genetics.” American Political Science Review 107(2): 382-395.

Peter K. Hatemi (2009) “Genetic and Environmental transmission of political attitudes

over a lifetime”. Journal of Politics, 71, 1141-1156

James H. Fowler, Laura A. Baker and Christopher T. Dawes. 2008. "Genetic variation in

political participation", American Political Science Review, 102:233-248.

Douglas R. Oxley et al. 2008 "Political attitudes vary with physiological traits",

Science, 321:1667-1670.

David Amodio at all 2007. "Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and

conservatism.” Nature Neuroscience, 10:1246-1247.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 11 (175-84).

John Judis 2014. "Are Political Beliefs Determined at Birth?" The New Republic, Oct 25.

https://newrepublic.com/article/119794/genopolitics-social-science-and-origin-political-

beliefs

*John Hibbing and Kevin Smith, 2015. "How your biology could overrule you when

voting," New Scientist, #3015, 4

April. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630152-100-how-your-biology-could-

overrule-you-when-voting/

*Kevin Smith, John Alford, John Hibbing et al. (2017). Intuitive Ethics and Political

Orientations: Testing Moral Foundations as a Theory of Political Ideology. American

Journal of Political Science. 61:2 424-37. Link via UVic library. Preliminary Response

by Haidt at: righteousmind.com/are-moral-foundations-heritable-probably/

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Topics (likely) Not Covered this Term:

The Political Psychology of Narratives.

*Phillip L. Hammack. 2014. “Mind, Story, Society: The Political Psychology of

Narrative” In

Michael Hanne, William D. Crano and Jeffery Scott Mio (Eds.) Warring with Words:

Narrative and Metaphor in Politics NY; The Psychology Press.

Paul Nesbitt-Larking, & Catarina Kinnvall. 2012. The discursive frames of political

psychology. Political Psychology, 33(1), 45-59.

Joanne Esch. 2010. “Legitimizing the ‘War on Terror’: Political myth in official-level

rhetoric.” Political Psychology, 31(3), 357-391.

Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki. 2012. “Narrative as a Root Metaphor for

Political Psychology” Political Psychology 33 75-103.

Shadi Gholizadeh and Derek W. Hook. 2012. The discursive construction of the 1978-

1979 Iranian revolution in the speeches of Ayatollah Khomeini. Journal of Community &

Applied Social Psychology, 22(2), 174-186.

Caroline Howarth and Eleni Andreouli. 2016. The Social Psychology of Everyday

Politics. Routledge.

Aram Ziai, 2004. "The ambivalence of post-development: between reactionary populism

and radical democracy." Third World Quarterly 25 (6) 1045-60.

Hannah Klein, 2017. Defeating Far--Right Populism Through Narrative"

http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2017/01/defeating-far-right-populism-through-narrative/

Psychology of Voting

David Houghton, Political Psychology, Chapter 12 (Chapter 17 in 1st edition).

*Zaria Gorvett, The Hidden Psychology of Voting

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150506-the-dark-psychology-of-voting

*Michael Hennessey et al. 2015. "Using Psychological Theory to Predict Voting

Intentions" Journal of Community Psychology 43:4, 466-83. votingintentions

Ted Brader. 2006. Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in

Political Ads Work,

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Nicolas Valentino et al., 2011 "Election Night's Alright for Fighting Journal of

Politics 73(1) 156-70. valentino-brader-gregorowicz-groenendyk-hutchings-election-

nights-alright-for-fighting

Christopher Olivola and Alexander Todorov 2010. " Elected in 100 Milliseconds:

Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting" Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 34: 83-

119.

Michael Spezio et al. 2008. "A Neural Basis for the Effect of Candidate Appearance on

Election Outcome" Social Cognition and Affective Neuroscience 3(4) 344-52.

S.J. McCann 2009. "...Voting for Republican Representatives." Journal of

Psychology 143(4) :341-358.

Richard Shenkman, 2016. Political Animals. Basic pp 103-132.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 12.

Eric Oliver and Wendy M. Rahn (2016). Rise of theTrumpenvolk: Populism in the 2016

Election. Annals American Academy of Social and Political Science Vol 667, Issue 1,

2016 Link.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/09/trumps-voters-

arent-authoritarians-new-research-says-so-what-are-they/?utm_term=.4d8669e71be6

Framing

*Joseph Fletcher & William Schatten "Framing the Toronto G20

Protests" fletcherschattencpsa2012final

Joseph Fletcher and Jennifer Hove, (2012). “Emotional Determinants of Support for the

Canadian Mission in Afghanistan: A View from the Bridge.” Canadian Journal of

Political Science 45: 33-62. HOH JF&JH

Joseph Fletcher and William Schatten (Early Version) “Ambivalence and Emotion in

Framing”Framing JF&WS

N.J.G. Winter. 2006.Beyond Welfare: Framing and the Racialization of White Opinion

on Social Security. American Journal of Political Science, 50(2): 400-420.

Nicholas Winter (2011) Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about race and Gender shape

public opinion Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press

J.N. Druckman. 2001. On the Limits of Framing Effects: Who Can Frame? The Journal

of Politics, 63(4):1041-1066,

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J.N. Druckman. 2004.Political Preference Formation: Competition, Deliberation, and the

(Ir) Relevance of Framing Effects. American Political Science Review, 98(04): 671-686,

N.A. Valentino, V.L. Hutchings, and I.K. White. Cues That Matter: How Political Ads

Prime Racial Attitudes During Campaigns. American Political Science Review, 96(01):75

{90, 2004

P.R. Brewer and K. Gross. 2005.Values, Framing, and Citizens' Thoughts About Policy

Issues: Effects on Content and Quantity. Political Psychology, 26(6): 929-948.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 13

Psychology of International Relations

*Elif Erişen 2012. “An Introduction to Political Psychology for International Relations

Scholars.”Perceptions, Volume XVII, Number 3, pp. 9-28. (Search on Google under the

author)

*Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, D. Alex Hughes, and David G. Victor. 2013.“The Cognitive

Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making” Perspectives on

Politics.

Vol. 11/No. 2: 368-386.

Nicholas Wright and Karim Sdjadpour, 2014. "The Neuroscience Guide to Negotiations

with Iran," The Atlantic, Jan 14, 2014. Critically summarized by Christian Jarrett

in Wired, Feb 24, 2014.

Marcus Holmes, 2013. "The Force of Face to Face Diplomacy: Mirror Neurons and the

Problem of Intentions." International Organization 67: 829-61. Summarized by Joshua

Keating in Slate, Oct 23, 2013.

Dominic D.P. Johnson & Dominic Tierney. 2011. “The Rubicon Theory of War: How the

Path to Conflict Reaches the Point of No Return.” International Security, 36/1: 7-40.

Rose McDermott, Political Psychology in International Relations, 2004

Jacques Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions and

Foreign Policy, Cambridge, 2006.

Mark Schafer and Scott Critchlow 2010. Groupthink versus high quality decision-making

in international relations. New York: Columbia University press.

Jonathan Mercer, (2005) "Rationality and Psychology and International Politics,"

International Organization, 59:77-106.

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James M. Goldgeier & Philip E. Tetlock. 2001.”Psychology and International Relations

Theory” Annual Review of Political Science 4: 67-92.

David Houghton 2015. Political Psychology 2nd ed. Routledge. Ch 17.

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UVic Evaluation Scheme/Summer 2017

Quizzes (online) May 24/25 = 10% Study Concepts for Quiz 1

June 5/6 = 10% Study Questions for Quiz 2

June 29/30 = 10% Study Questions for Quiz 3

Short Papers/Presentation #1 Due May 26 (3 pm) = 15%

#2 Due June 9 (3 pm) = 20%

#3 Presentation in class June 27 & 29 = 20%

Participation Student Survey date TBA = 5%

Audience Participation Jun 27 = 5%

Audience Participation June 29 = 5%

UVic Statement regarding PLAGIARISM AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic integrity is intellectual honesty and responsibility for academic work that you

submit individually or as a member of a group. It involves commitment to the values of

honesty, trust and responsibility. It is expected that students will respect these ethical

values in all activities related to learning, teaching, research and service. Therefore,

plagiarism and other acts against academic integrity are serious academic offences.

The responsibility of the institution – Instructors and academic units have the

responsibility to ensure that standards of academic honesty are met. By doing so, the

institution recognizes students for their hard work and assures them that other students do

not have an unfair advantage through cheating on essays, exams, and projects.

The responsibility of the student – Plagiarism sometimes occurs due to a

misunderstanding regarding the rules of academic integrity, but it is the responsibility of

the student to know them. If you are unsure about the standards for citations or for

referencing your sources, ask your instructor. Depending on the severity of the case,

penalties include a warning, a failing grade, a record on the student’s transcript, or a

suspension. It is your responsibility to understand the University’s policy on academic

integrity, which can be found on pages 32-34 of the undergraduate calendar.

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UVic PERCENTAGE GRADING SCALE

Passing

Grades

Grade

Point

Value Percentage Description

A+

A

A-

9

8

7

90 – 100

85 – 89

80 – 84

Exceptional, outstanding and excellent performance.

Normally achieved by a minority of students. These

grades indicate a student who is self-initiating,

exceeds expectation and has an insightful grasp of the

subject matter.

B+

B

B-

6

5

4

77 – 79

73 – 76

70 – 72

Very good, good and solid performance. Normally

achieved by the largest number of students. These

grades indicate a good grasp of the subject matter or

excellent grasp in one area balanced with satisfactory

grasp in the other area.

C+

C

3

2

65 – 69

60 – 64

Satisfactory, or minimally satisfactory. These

grades indicate a satisfactory performance and

knowledge of the subject matter.

D 1 50 – 59

Marginal Performance. A student receiving this

grade demonstrated a superficial grasp of the subject

matter.

Failing

Grades

Grade

Point

Value Percentage Description

F 0 0 – 49

Unsatisfactory performance. Wrote final examination

and completed course requirements; no supplemental.

N 0 0 – 49

Did not write examination or complete course

requirements by the end of term or session; no

supplemental.

1. The percentage grading scale applies to all Faculties at the University of Victoria.

2. The percentage grades should be associated with a letter grading schema.

3. A percentage grade for an N grade should be assigned in the following manner:

N GRADE: If a student has not completed the exam, or has not completed the course

requirements, but has submitted course requirements that total more than 49% of the total

grade for a course, an instructor will assign a percentage grade of 49%.

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UVic COURSE EXPERIENCE SURVEY (CES) Towards the end of term, as in all other courses at UVic, you will have the opportunity to

complete an anonymous survey regarding your learning experience (CES). The survey

will help the department improve the overall program for students in the future. The

survey is accessed via MyPage and can be done on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device.

The department will provide you with more detailed information nearer the time of the

survey.