Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 1 What Is Political Psychology? -- Morton Deutsch and Catarina Kinnvall -- 2 Political Psychology as a Perspective in the Study -- of Politics -- Margaret G. Hermann -- 3 Political Psychology: Origins and Development -- Dana Ward -- 4 Psychological Political Science Versus Political -- Psychology True to Its Name: A Plea for Balance -- Jon A. Krosnick and Kathleen M. McGraw -- 5 Political Psychology: A Personal View -- George E. Marcus -- 6 Political Learning and Political Psychology: A Question of Norms -- Janice Gross Stein -- 7 Lost in Plain Sight: The Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology -- Stanley A. Renshon -- 8 The Utility of Political Psychology -- Martha Crenshaw -- 9 From Social to Political Psychology: The Societal Approach -- Willem Doise and Christian Staerkle -- 10 The (Social) Psychological Legacy for Political Psychology -- Daniel Bar-Tal -- 11 Group Psychology Is the State of Nature -- C. Fred Alford -- PART III. SPECIAL AREAS OF APPLICATION -- 12 Institutional Organization of Choice Spaces: A Political Conception of Political Psychology -- Simon Jackman and Paul M. Sniderman -- 13 On-Line Versus Memory-Based Process Models of Political Evaluation -- Howard Lavine -- 14 Long-Term Psychological Consequences of Political Events -- David 0. Sears -- 15 Crossing the Methodological and Disciplinary Divide: Political Stability, Political Change, and Research Method -- Leonie Huddy -- 16 Signaling and Perception: Drawing Inferences and Projecting Images -- Robert Jervis -- PART IV. FOCUS ON THE FUTURE / -- 17 Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and Other Political Influences in Political Psychology -- Peter Suedfeld -- 18 Reconstructing Political Psychology: Current Obstacles and New Direction -- Shawn Rosenberg -- 19 Turning Political Psychology Upside Down -- Robert E. Lane -- 20 An Intellectual Agenda for Political Psychology -- David G. Winter -- 21 A Paradigm for Political Psychology -- Kristen R Monroe -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.