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The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology provides a comprehensive review of the psychology of political behaviour from an international perspective. Its coverage spans from foundational approaches to political psychology, including the evolutionary, personality and developmental roots of political attitudes, to contemporary challenges to governance, including populism, hate speech, conspiracy beliefs, inequality, climate change and cyberterrorism. Each chapter features cutting-edge research from internationally renowned scholars who offer their unique insights into how people think, feel and act in different political contexts. By taking a distinctively international approach, this handbook highlights the nuances of political behaviour across cultures and geographical regions, as well as the truisms of political psychology that transcend context. Academics, graduate students and practitioners alike, as well as those generally interested in politics and human behaviour, will benefit from this definitive overview of how people shape - and are shaped by - their political environment in a rapidly changing twenty-first century.

Provides an overview of some of the most pressing issues facing democratic governance in contemporary society
Looks beyond the North American context to feature international perspectives, thus broadening our understanding of how political psychology operates in different contexts



Table of Contents

Content
Part I. Foundations of Political Psychology:
1. Political psychology: advancing an international perspective on the psychology of political behaviour
2. The evolutionary basis of political ideology
3. Genetic contributions to political phenomena
4. The psychology and neuroscience of partisanship
5. The personality basis of political preferences
6. The structure, prevalence, and nature of mass belief systems
7. The psychology of public opinion
8. Rational choice and information processing
9. Emotions and politics
10. The developmental science of politics: insights from the 2016 US Presidential Election
Part II. The Politics of Intergroup Attitudes:
11. Authoritarianism: conceptualization, research, and new developments
12. A political psychology of ethnocentrism
13. Collective narcissism: how being narcissistic about your groups shapes politics, group processes and intergroup relations
14. Demographic change, White decline, and the changing nature of racial politics in election campaigns
15. Macro-diversity and intergroup attitudes
16. The persistence of gender in campaigns and elections
17. The politics of abortion, pregnancy, and motherhood
18. Religiosity and openness to authoritarian governance
19. The consequences of moral conviction in politics: more negative than positive?
20. The political psychology of national identity
21. The political dynamics of immigration opinion worldwide
22. International and individual differences in support for human rights
Part III. Contemporary Challenges to Democracy:
23. The political psychology of inequality: why rising rates of economic inequality affect our health and democracy
24. How social class influences political choices
25. Fear and loathing in American politics: a review of affective polarization
26. Political extremism
27. The politics of hate: derogatory language in politics and intergroup relations
28. Populism
29. A cultural theory of autocracy-vs-democracy: on the psychological foundations of political regimes
30. Psychological theories meet the challenge of persuading and mobilizing voters
31. Collective action for social change: individual, group and contextual factors shaping collective action and its outcomes
32. Opinion formation and polarization in the news feed era: effects from digital, social, and mobile media
33. Conspiracy theory belief and conspiratorial thinking
34. Political psychology and the climate crisis
35. The political psychology of cyber-terrorism
36. Reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence
Part IV. Diversifying Perspectives in Political Psychology:
37. Political psychology in the Global South: collective memory, intergroup relations, ideology, and political participation
38. Political psychology in the Arab region: a commentary on navigating research in unstable contexts
39. Critical perspectives in political psychology
40. Rethinking group dynamics: the Cuban missile crisis revisited
41. Two sides of the same coin: a new look at differences and similarities across political ideology
Index.