Political Psychology

WE WELCOME ALL PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS ON POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. BELOW ARE SOME SPECIFIC IDEAS FROM THE SECTION CHAIRS. Advances in Political Psychology Research. The Section is co-organised by the ECPR Graduate Student Network (GSN) and the Standing Group on Political Psychology. This section surveys important topics in political psychology research. The goal of the section is to address the theoretical and methodological advances in research examining the psychological aspects of public opinion, political communication, political preferences and attitudes, identity and conflict, radicalisation and engagement with politics. The purpose of the section is to open up the scientific discussion and research across graduate students in Europe that work in the area of political psychology on the above topics. We invite panels and papers from junior scholars with theoretically driven empirical research papers and welcome contributions that come from all disciplines of social and political sciences. The section proposes to showcase the following research topics: political decision-making, political communication and the Internet, party or candidate preferences, political opinions and political values. In addition, the section invites papers and panels on political identity development, political distrust and cynicism, political violence and terrorism, fanaticism, civic competence as well as methodological advances and new techniques in political psychology research. Suggested Panels and papers may touch upon but are not limited to the following areas of political psychology: 1. Public Opinion and Media 2. Engagement with Politics: Cynicism, Participation, Alienation, Involvement 3. Identities and Conflict 4. Extreme Political attitudes: fanaticism, radicalism 5. Methodological advances and new techniques