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James T. Kitchens and Larry Powell examine why political messages appeal to voters in the United States by exploring the four pillars of the American psyche: fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religiosity. These pillars, combined with the related matrix of attitudes, beliefs, and values, determine how political communication is understood.

Political culture --- Communication in politics --- Political psychology --- Political candidates --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Psychological aspects

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Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the Laboratory. IV. Experiments and the Political Process: 2: Bridging the Gap. V. The Concept of Leadership. VI. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 1. VII. Leadership: Affective and Instrumental, 2. VIII. Leadership and the Norms of the Group. IX. The Participation Hypothesis, 1: Application of a Small Group Finding. X. The Participation Hypothesis, 2: The Generality of a Small Group Finding. XI. A Concluding Note. Bibliography. Index.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Political psychology. --- Small groups. --- Leadership. --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Groups, Small --- Social groups --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Psychological aspects

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"Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher.

Political psychology. --- Self-interest --- Conduct of life --- Self --- Economic man --- NIMBY syndrome --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Political aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Levellers Rohan Mill. --- interest conceptual history Hobbes Hegel. --- neoliberalism. --- personality Roman Law.

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In this age of narcissism, the proliferation of politicians with significant narcissistic personality features is dramatic. Driven by dreams of glory, they seem to find the spotlight that the arena of politics provides irresistible. This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores the psychology of narcissism - the entitlement, the grandiosity and arrogance overlying insecurity, the sensitivity to criticism, and the hunger for acclaim - illustrating different narcissistic personality features through a spectrum of international and national politicians. It addresses the power of charismatic leader-follower relationships, as well as the impact of age and illness on leaders driven by dreams of glory.

Personality and politics. --- Political psychology. --- Narcissism --- Charisma (Personality trait) --- Appeal, Personal --- Magnetism, Personal --- Personal appeal --- Personal magnetism --- Personality --- Ego erotism --- Erotism, Ego --- Narcism --- Egoism --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Politics and personality --- Political aspects. --- Psychological aspects

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In recent decades game theory-the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals-has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern's seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory's revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.

Operational research. Game theory --- Game theory --- Science --- Methodology --- Von Neumann, John, --- Science - Methodology --- Von Neumann, John, - 1903-1957. - Theory of games and economic behavior --- Game theory. --- Methodology. --- Scientific method --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- game theory, rationalism, reason, decision making, social interaction, individuals, capitalism, markets, altruism, fairness, society, trust, justice, philanthropy, charity, games and economic behavior, economics, military strategy, biology, programming, nonfiction, psychology, political science, cold war, arms race, information processing, interdisciplinary, history, john von neumann, oscar morgenstern, evolution, motivation.