The Political Psychology of Grievances, Disturbances, Transitions and Achievements: intra-personal, interpersonal, inter-group and global challenges

The 2022 Political Psychology Section addresses pressing global political phenomena, focusing on the psychological origins and implications of grievances, disturbances, transitions and achievements that shape intrapersonal processes and interpersonal, intergroup and global interactions. It is sponsored by the Political Psychology Standing Group and for the sixteenth (16th) year running (since 2005) it brings together scholars from political science, psychology, international relations, sociology and political communication from Europe and the world, who share a common passion: the understanding of psychological determinants of political decision making. For our 2022 programme, we invite scholars to engage with our theme 'The Political Psychology of Grievances, Disturbances, Transitions and Achievements: intra-personal, interpersonal, inter-group and global challenges', employing theoretical and empirical tools that examine the formation of political preferences, choices and attitudes, the emotional and conflict politics of our times, issues of identity and nationalism, multiculturalism vs. the politics of exclusion and marginalization, the challenges of extremism and terrorism, the implications of displacement and traumas, and the management of national and international conflicts. We have structured the section as follows in eight thematic panels: 1. Political Psychology in a Covid-19 world: disturbance and recovery 2. Fake, False, or Polarised: news and the political psychology of (mis)perception 3. Leaders and Followers: the political psychology of leadership 4. With Malice towards Some: compassion, hate, and the political psychology of prejudice 5. United We Stand: group identities, attachments, and the political psychology of cohesion 6. Divided We Fall: intergroup conflict, polarization, and political psychology at the extremes 7. Grievance Politics: the political psychology of frustrations, anger, resentment 8. Global Friends and Enemies: the political psychology of international conflict and cooperation We invite theoretically driven empirical research papers from senior and junior international scholars in political psychology. Our aim is to further discussion and research in political psychology across scientific communities on the above topics. Upon completion of the conference, the authors of selected papers from the panels will be considered to contribute to the second volume of Advances in Global Political Psychology (first volume now published under the title Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology).