Abstract: . . .  political psychology Page 1 1 PS 299A ADVANCED TOPICS IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY Professor John Transue Professor Marco Steenbergen Spring 2004 Syllabus version 3.0 (with weather reschedule) Politics accordingly has it roots in psychology , the study (in their actuality) of the mental habits and vocational proclivities of mankind. —James Bryce 1 The root is man. I don’t think it is possible to say anything meaningful about the govern- ance of man without talking about the political behavior of man—his acts, goals, drives, feelings, beliefs, . . .
. . .  Justified? The Effect of Trust and Self-Other Merging in Social Dilemmas. So- cial Justice Research 16(1): 41-52. Optional Readings: ÿ Einhorn, Hillel J., and Robin M. Hogarth. 1987. Decision Making under Ambiguity. In Rational Choice: The Contrast between Economics and Psychology , ed. R.M. Hogarth and M.W. Reder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ÿ Hogarth, Robin M., and Hillel J. Einhorn. 1992. Order Effects in Belief Updating: The Belief-Adjustment Model. Cognitive Psychology 24(1): 1-55. Other Topics not Covered in Class Models of the Survey Response We conclude this module on belief systems by considering the survey response. Survey re- sponses are often the raw materials that political psychologists have to work with in their research. But how do these responses relate to beliefs, attitudes, and judgments. We will consider several theories of the survey response today. Required Readings: ÿ Alvarez, R. Michael, and John Brehm. 2002. Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and . . .
. . .  Survey Response . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chs. 6, 7, 8, and 11. ÿ Zaller, John, and Stanley Feldman. 1992. A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences. American Journal of Political Science 36(3): 579-616. Optional Readings: ÿ Achen, Chris.1975. Mass Political Attitudes and the Survey Response. American Political Science Review 69: 1218-1231. ÿ Lacy, Dean. 2001. A Theory of Nonseperable Preferences in Survey Responses. American Journal of Political Science 45(2): 239-258. ÿ Van der Veld, William, and Willem E. Saris. 2003. “A New Framework and a Model for the Survey Response Process: Uniting Converse, Achen, Zaller, and Feldman.” Paper presented at the ECPR Conference, Marburg (Germany), Septem- ber 2003.  . . .
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