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Houghton was born and raised in the northwest of England.
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
( What shapes political behavior more: the situations in ...)
What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup---beliefs, values, and so on---of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases, 2nd edition, provides a concise, readable, and conceptually organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question. Using this situationism--dispositionism framework―which roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychology―this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism, obedience, personality, groupthink, cognition, affect, emotion, and neuroscience to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations. The new edition includes a new chapter on the psychology of the media and communication. Houghton has also updated the text to analyze recent political events such as the 2012 election, and to include up-and-coming research in the areas of neuroscience, behavioral economics, and more. Houghton's clear and engaging examples directly challenge students to place themselves in both real and hypothetical situations which involve intense moral and political dilemmas. This highly readable text will provide students with the conceptual foundation they need to make sense of the rapidly changing and increasingly important field of political psychology.
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases by David Patrick Houghton (2014-08-27)
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
( What shapes political behavior more: the situations in ...)
What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup―beliefs, values, and so on―of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. This text provides a concise, readable, and conceptually-organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question. Using this situationism-dispositionism framework―which roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychology―this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism, obedience, personality, groupthink, cognition, affect, emotion, and neuroscience to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations. Houghton's clear and engaging examples directly challenge students to place themselves in both real and hypothetical situations which involve intense moral and political dilemmas. This highly readable text will provide students with the conceptual foundation they need to make sense of the rapidly changing and increasingly important field of political psychology.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415990149/?tag=2022091-20
David Patrick
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In Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same school in 1996 with a thesis on "The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Foreign and Domestic Policy Contexts".
Career
Education and Early He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Politics from the University of Sheffield in 1989. He also received an Master of Arts He was then a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, during a period of research leave from Essex.
He taught at the University of Central Florida between 2003 and 2013.
One of his books, Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis, was a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also done media interviews on the Iran hostage crisis and other topics with The New York Times, Sky News, National Public Radio, WOFL (Fox 35 Orlando) and other outlets He is also a writer for Project Syndicate.
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
( What shapes political behavior more: the situations in ...)
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
( What shapes political behavior more: the situations in ...)
- Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases by David Patrick Houghton (2014-08-27)
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Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
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Houghton"s areas of expertise are political psychology, foreign policy decision-making, American foreign policy and United States-Iranian relations. In addition to five books, he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles
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