Political Psychology: Social Interaction in the Context of Attitudes and Ideologies course at CEU Summer University

Political psychology is the study of political behaviour of individuals and groups in the context of what we know about human psychological characteristics. It is a discipline at the intersection of political science and psychology and includes research on various topics, such as the formation and change of political attitudes and ideologies and how these relate to political behaviour (e.g. voting or political participation more broadly), the formation of group identities and intergroup conflict, including nationalism and extremism, ethnic identities, gender roles and many other essential and problematic areas of our social and political existence. All of these topics concern the attitudes, ideas and belief systems – ideologies – that people hold and which thus structure political behaviour.
 
The substantive focus of this specific course is on how attitudes and ideologies structure certain critical aspects of social interaction, group formation and intergroup conflict.
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