Discusses the role of affect in symbolic politics by summarizing and elaborating an enduring
research program that has influenced public opinion and political psychology work for years …

IT life. and IS GENERALLY rationalize Decision-makers ACKNOWLEDGED their action
actively through THAT engage SYMBOLS them. in the People ARE manipulation A VITAL …

Abstract argue [that] it is emotion based on some enduring predisposition rather than on the
tangible costs and benefits of the matters to which the [political] symbol refers/offers a theory …

METAPHORS AND MYTHS are devices for simplifying and giving meaning to complex and
bewildering sets of observations that evoke concern. Political events and trends are typically …

If social psychology's goal is to understand how people interact with and influence one
another, the domain of politics offers a wonderful context in which to develop and test basic …

This book is about political psychology. In it I have attempted to apply theories and research
from various areas within psychology, primarily social psychology, to the analysis of why …

Thanks to the pioneering scholarship of Thurman Arnold (1935), Harold Lasswell (1951),
Laswell, Lemer, and de Sola Pool (1952), Lasswell et al.(1965), and Murray Edelman (1964 …

Schema theory has established wide currency today among scholars who study political
attitudes, beliefs, values, recollections, or other perceptions and orientations that citizens …

Political figures and events often elicit strong emotional responses in citizens. These
responses have the power to impact judgments and information processing, as well as the …

Describes how and why social symbols are powerful social phenomena, using material
collected from newspapers, news programs, and speeches during the Gulf Crisis in 1991. It …