POL 309: Political Psychology
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Week 1: What is Political Psychology?
Week 2: Social Identity Theory
Week 3: Social Identity Theory (cont.)
Week 4: Partisanship and Ideology as Social Identities
Week 5: Partisanship (cont.) / Theories of Cognition and Memory
Week 6: Theories of Cognition and Memory
Week 7: Knowledge and Sophistication
Week 8: Writing Assignments
Week 9: Information Processing and Heuristics
Week 10: The Media Environment: Framing and Priming
Week 11: Personality Traits
Week 12: Emotions in Politics
Week 13: Emotions in Politics
Week 14: Assignment and Break
Week 15: Racial Stereotypes and Prejudice
Week 16: Gender Stereotypes
Week 17: Final Paper
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Here you can find all the lists of topics and readings for the semester.