This paper aims to show why POLITICS increasingly needs the contributions of applied psychology and why it must also reorient its evidence to the field of political action.


Without prejudice to the classic research focuses of political psychology - and without entering into the object and process of the policies themselves - applied psychology has sufficient instrumental evidence (from its different areas of application) to enrich and improve three vectors: a) that of policy makers [politicians; political professionals and government agents], b) citizens and civil society and c) the performance of public policies.


The components of what could be a -not exhaustive- instrumental psychological repertoire for the performance of political action at the three levels are presented, urging psychology professionals to make visible, on the one hand, the psychological contributions useful for practice and, on the other, to examine the applicability of the evidence obtained in research in the field of social and political psychology and political psychology.