Political Psychology

Published on behalf of the International Society of Political Psychology

Edited by:
Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, Howard Lavine, and Charles Taber

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 15/99 Political Science; 20/50 Psychology, Social
Impact Factor: 1.478

Understanding the psychological aspects of national and international political developments is increasingly important in this age of international tension and sweeping political change. Political Psychology, the journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, is dedicated to the analysis of the interrelationships between psychological and political processes. International contributors draw on a diverse range of sources, including clinical and cognitive psychology, economics, history, international relations, philosophy, political science, political theory, sociology, personality and social psychology.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue - "Political Psychology: Where Do We Go From Here?"
The first Special Issue of Political Psychology under its new Editors will be published in April/June 2011. Submission deadline: February 1, 2010
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TopHighlights

• Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives
  Dean Keith Simonton
• Conflict, Identity, and Tolerance: Israel in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
  Michal Shamir, Tammy Sagiv-Schifter
• Brain Activity in the Play of Dominant Strategy and Mixed Strategy Games
  Rick K. Wilson, Randolph Stevenson, Geoffrey Potts
• Emotion Priming and Attributions for Terrorism: Americans' Reactions in a National Field Experiment
  Deborah A. Small, Jennifer S. Lerner, Baruch Fischhoff
• The Emotional Foundation of political Cognition: The Impact of Extrinsic Anxiety on the Formation of Political Tolerance Judgments
  George E. Marcus, John L. Sullivan, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Daniel Stevens
• How We Conceptualize Our Attitudes Matters: The Effects of Valence Framing on the Resistance of Political Attitudes
  George Y. Bizer, Richard E. Petty
• Political Psychology and Social Neuroscience: Strange Bedfellows or Comrades in Arms?
  John T. Cacioppo and Penny S. Visser
• Effects of Damage to Right-Hemisphere Brain Structures on Spontaneous Emotional and Social Judgments
  Andrea S. Heberlein, Ralph Adolphs, James W. Pennebaker, and Daniel Tranel
• Special Issue: 9/11 and Its Aftermath: Perspectives from Political Psychology
  Wendy Rahn, Eugene Borgida, and John Sullivan
• The 2004 symposium on intergroup relations
  

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The journal Political Psychology ...has emerged as the major forum for [the field]. '
New York Times