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Is Trump’s base locked into a cult of personality? Democrats and liberals need to be prepared for the worst.
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Is Trump’s base locked into a cult of personality? Democrats and liberals need to be prepared for the worst.
In political psychology, rationalization has three meanings. Here’s what they are and why they matter.
First Person Politics presents four new free-to-watch webinars covering the basics of political psychology, political personalities, political messaging, and the political applications of social and situational influence techniques.
Ideologies are irrational and subjective because that’s the way people are too. Watch our new video series on the psychology behind political ideology.
Republicans know they can’t say certain things about our president in public without alienating the rest of the country. So they’re using an American veteran and recovering prisoner of war who has no way to defend himself as their partisan political punching bag.
Confirmation bias makes people of all political stripes see what they want to see. So why do liberals get it right more often than conservatives? The psychological antecedents of liberalism protect liberals from error over the long run, but may be keeping them from facing some uncomfortable truths about human psychology.
It’s not at all unusual for political pros to struggle with a psychological approach to politics. Here are some of the most common biases, misconceptions, and objections that keep political strategists and analysts from benefiting from a psychological perspective.
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican Brain, has a new article in Mother Jones based on his earlier research into motivated reasoning in politics. Thank heavens Mooney wrote the book on this subject, because if he hadn’t done it, we would have had to. Mooney is a journalist who sees […]
Right wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are the psychological building blocks of all ideology.
Here at First Person Politics, we talk a lot about projection and displacement because they are the fundamental psychological forces that motivate interest in politics in the first place. So we thought we’d take this opportunity to clarify just what these things are and how they work.