Christie’s Tea Party Rally
Right after the Bridgegate scandal started making national headlines, we predicted conservatives would rally to Chrisite’s side. New polling shows they’ve done just that. Here’s why.
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Right after the Bridgegate scandal started making national headlines, we predicted conservatives would rally to Chrisite’s side. New polling shows they’ve done just that. Here’s why.
America’s rich imagine themselves to be under violent siege — facing a mortal threat of some kind, usually from the progressive or populist left. To see what’s really going on, you have to look at Wall Street’s persecution complex through the lens of psychology.
How should political strategists respond to the fact that more than half of our political orientation is hard-wired into our biology? Here are our top four strategic recommendations.
What if all the hype about big data isn’t justified? What if there’s a better alternative? There’s a new David in town using political psychology to take on the big data Goliath, whose size distracts from its costs, downsides, and vulnerabilities.
At least since the 2008 election, Republicans have been pursuing a strategy designed to keep the emerging (and growing) Democratic majority in the electorate from making a difference and wielding power in office. Rules reform in the Senate suggests that Democrats may finally be wising up to this strategy and are deciding to fight back.
This new report from Democracy Corps, based on a series of focus group studies, divides the Republican Party into three camps: Tea Partiers, Evangelicals, and moderates. To show how political psychology can add depth to public opinion research, we thought it would be useful to map these three groups onto […]
To really understand the politics of this moment, you can’t just look at a single generation — you have to look at all the generations alive and active in Congress today and how they relate to each other.
Earlier this week, we discussed the many reasons why politicos struggle with psychology. Since turnabout is fair play, we though we’d identify the most common reasons psychologists to struggle with politics. biases and tendencies Theory over practice. Like nearly all scientists, psychologists love a good theory that has enormous explanatory […]
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.
You can use social and situational factors to surreptitiously influence people for political and financial gain. That is the subject of our latest piece, just published online in Campaigns and Elections.