Friday 24 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 06 - Arco
Chair:
Boehnke Klaus
Division: Division 11: Political Psychology
Political Psychology is a branch of Applied Psychology that deals with the psychological conditions and consequences of political events. Political Psychology conducts interdisciplinary research with political science, political sociology and other sciences on the personal factors of political behavior in groups and among individuals. The term was introduced in 1860 by Adolf Bastian. Modern Political Psychology deals with topics such as electoral politics, public policy design, leadership, elite decision-making, intergroup relations, personality and political ideology, political violence, and conflict resolution. Examples of research questions include the origins of racism, determinants of voting behavior, subjective determinants of wars, and the role of leaders. It is thus clear that political psychology is a theoretical, methodologically diverse, geographically widespread, and universally applicable discipline that also has the potential to understand better and address the urgent challenges of the modern world. The symposium offers distributions from different angles.
