Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1 : HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The poly-psy relationship: three phases of a long affair / William J. McGuire -- PART 2 : PERSONALITY AND POLITICS -- A. AUTHORITARIANISM AND MASS PSYCHOLOGY -- The authoritarian personality and the organization of attitudes / Roger Brown -- Threat and authoritarianism in the United States: 1978-1987 / Richard M. Doty ... [et al.] -- The other "authoritarian personality" / Bob Altemeyer -- B. POLITICAL ELITES AND LEADERSHIP -- Can personality and politics be studied systemically? / Fred I. Greenstein -- Leader appeal, leader performance, and the motive profiles of leaders and followers: a study of American presidents and elections / David G. Winter -- PART 3 : MASS MEDIA AND CANDIDATE PERCEPTION -- Experimental demonstrations of the "not-so-minimal" consequences of television news programs / Shanto Iyengar ... [et al.] -- Altering the foundations of support for the president through priming / Jon A. Krosnick, Donald R. Kinder -- Anxiety, enthusiasm, and the vote: the emotional underpinnings of learning and involvement during presidential campaigns / George E. Marcus, Michael B. MacKuen -- PART 4 : IDEOLOGY AND PUBLIC OPINION -- A. DOES IDEOLOGY EXIST? -- The nature of belief systems in mass publics / Philip E. Converse -- The origins and meaning of liberal/conservative self-identifications / Pamela Johnston Conover, Stanley Feldman -- B. COGNITIVE STYLE AND IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING -- The fear of equality / Robert E. Lane -- Cognitive style and political belief systems in the British House of Commons / Philip E. Tetlock -- PART 5 : CHALLENGES OF DECISION-MAKING -- Contrasting rational and psychological analysis of political choice / George A. Quattrone, Amos Tversky -- The drunkard's search / Robert Jervis -- PART 6 : PREJUDICE, DIVERSITY, AND SOCIAL CONTACT -- A. THEORIES OF INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN SOCIETY -- The social identity theory of intergroup behavior / Henri Taifel, John C. Turner -- The role of stereotyping in system justification and the production of false consciousness / John T. Jost, Mahzarin R. Banaji -- Social dominance theory: a new synthesis / Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto -- B. THE ENDURING PROBLEM OF RACISM -- Group conflict, prejudice and the paradox of contemporary racial attitudes / Lawrence Bobo -- Is it really racism? The origins of white Americans' opposition to race-targeted policies / David O. Sears ... [et al.] -- PART 7 : CONFLICT, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION -- A. THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WRONGDOING AND HARM -- Social organization for the production of evil / John M. Darley -- The psychology of political terrorism / Martha Crenshaw -- B. PROTEST AND REVOLUTION -- Theoretical approaches to explaining collective political violence / Harry Eckstein -- Politicized collective identity / Bernd Simon, Bert Klandermans -- Appendix: how to read a journal article in social psychology / Christian H. Jordan, Mark P. Zanna.