Skip to content
Skip to main content

About this free course

Download this course

Share this free course

Social psychology and politics
Social psychology and politics

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available.

References

Adorno, T. W., Frenkl-Brunswick, E., Levinson, D. J., and Sanford, R. N. (1950) The Authoritarian Personality, New York, Harper.

Altemeyer, B. (1981) Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Manitoba, Canada, University of Manitoba Press.

Andreouli, E., and Dashtipour, P. (2014) ‘British citizenship and the “other”: An analysis of the earned citizenship discourse’, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 100−10.

Andreouli, E., Greenland, K., and Howarth, C. (2016). ‘I don’t think racism is that bad any more: Exploring the “end of racism” discourse among students in English schools’, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 171−84.

Barbaranelli, C., Caprara, G. V., Vecchione, M., and Fraley, R. C. (2007) ‘Voters’ personality traits in presidential elections’, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 42, pp. 1199–208.

Barnes, R., Auburn, T., and Lea, S. (2004) ‘Citizenship in practice’, British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 43, pp. 187−206.

Billig, M., Condor, S., Edwards, D., Gane, M., Middleton, D., and Radley, A. (1988) Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking, Sage Publications.

Bruner, J. (1990) Acts of Meaning, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Burton, M. (2004) ‘Viva Nacho! Liberating psychology in Latin America’, The Psychologist, vol, 17, no. 10, pp. 584−7.

Burton, M. (2013) ‘Liberation Psychology: a constructive critical praxis’, Psychological Studies / Estudos de Psicologia, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 249−59.

Burton, M., and Kagan C. M. (2009) ‘Towards a Really Social Psychology: Liberation Psychology beyond Latin America’, in Montero, M. and Sonn, C. C. (eds), Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications, New York, Springer, pp. 51−72.

Caprara, G. V., Barbaranelli, C., and Zimbardo, P. (1999) ‘Personality profiles and political parties’, Political Psychology, vol. 20, pp. 175–97.

Caprara, G. V., Schwartz, S. H., Capanna, C., Vecchione, M., and Barbaranelli, C. (2006) ‘Personality and politics: Values, traits, and political choice’, Political Psychology, vol. 27, pp. 1–28.

Christie, R. (1954) ‘Authoritarianism re-examined’, Studies in the Scope and Method of “The Authoritarian Personality, pp. 123−96.

Christie, R. and Cook, P. (1958) ‘A guide to published literature relating to the authoritarian personality through 1956’, Journal of Psychology, vol. 45, pp. 171−99.

Corning, A. F., and Myers, D. J. (2002) ‘Individual orientation toward engagement in social action’, Political Psychology, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 703−29.

De Castella, K., and McGarty, C. (2011) ‘Two leaders, two wars: A psychological analysis of fear and anger content in political rhetoric about terrorism’, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 180−200.

Drury, J., and Reicher, S. (1999) ‘The intergroup dynamics of collective empowerment: Substantiating the social identity model of crowd behavior’, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 381−402.

Every, D., and Augoustinos, M. (2007) ‘Constructions of racism in the Australian parliamentary debates on asylum seekers’, Discourse & Society, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 411−36.

Figgou, L., and Condor, S. (2007) ‘Categorising category labels in interview accounts about the “Muslim minority” in Greece’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 439−59.

Gergen, K. J. (1991) The Saturated Self, New York, Basic Books.

Gergen, K. J. (1994) Realities and Relationships, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

Gibson, S., and Hamilton, L. (2011) ‘The rhetorical construction of polity membership: Identity, culture and citizenship in young people’s discussions of immigration in northern England’, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 228−42.

Gray, D., and Griffin, C. (2014) ‘A journey to citizenship: Constructions of citizenship and identity in the British citizenship test’, British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 53, pp. 299−314.

Hopkins, N., and Blackwood, L. (2011) ‘Everyday citizenship: Identity and recognition’, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, vol. 21, pp.215–27.

Hopkins, N., Blackwood, L. and Reicher, S. (2015) ‘“Flying While Muslim”: Citizenship and misrecognition in the airport’, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, vol. 3, pp. 148–70,

Jost, J. T. (2006) ‘The end of the end of ideology’, American Psychologist, vol. 61, pp. 651–70.

Kurz, T., Augoustinos, M., and Crabb, S. (2010) ‘Contesting the ‘national interest’ and maintaining ‘our lifestyle’: A discursive analysis of political rhetoric around climate change’, British journal of social psychology, vol. 49, no. 3, pp.601−25.

Lynn, N., and Lea, S. (2003) ‘A phantom menace and the new Apartheid: the social construction of asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom’, Discourse & Society, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 425−52.

McCrae, R. R., and Costa, P. T. (2008) ‘Empirical and theoretical status of the five-factor model of personality traits’, The SAGE handbook of personality theory and assessment, vol. 1, pp. 273−94.

Potter, J. (2000) ‘Post-cognitive psychology’, Theory and Psychology, vol. 10, pp. 31–7.

Potter, J. and Wetherell, M. (1987) Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, London, Sage Publications.

Reicher, S. D. (1984) ‘The St. Pauls’ riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model’, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1−21.

Reicher, S. D. (1996) ‘The battle of Westminster: Developing the social identity model of crowd behaviour in order to explain the initiation and development of collective conflict’, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 115−34.

Reicher, S. D. (2001) ‘The psychology of crowd dynamics’, Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes, vol. 44, p. 182.

Reicher, S., and Haslam, S. A. (2011) ‘After shock? Towards a social identity explanation of the Milgram obedience studies’, British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 163−9.

Reicher, S. D., Haslam, S. A., Spears, R., and Reynolds, K. J. (2012) ‘A social mind: The context of John Turner’s work and its influence’, European Review of Social Psychology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 344−85.

Schoen, H., and Schumann, S. (2007) ‘Personality traits, partisan attitudes, and voting behavior: Evidence from Germany’, Political Psychology, vol. 28, pp. 471–98.

Sindic, D., and Condor, S. (2014) ‘Social identity theory and self-categorisation theory’, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology,Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39–54.

Stone, W. F., Lederer, G., and Christie, R. (1993) ‘Introduction: Strength and weakness’, in Stone, W. F., Lederer, G.n and Christie, R. (eds), Strength and Weakness: The Authoritarian Personality Today, New York, Springer-Verlag, pp. 6–21.

Stott, C., and Drury, J. (1999) ‘The inter-group dynamics of empowerment: A social identity model’, in Transforming Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 32–55.

Stott, C., and Drury, J. (2000) ‘Crowds, context and identity: Dynamic categorization processes in the “poll tax riot”’, Human relations, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 247−73.

Stott, C., and Reicher, S. (1998) ‘Crowd action as intergroup process: Introducing the police perspective’, European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 509−29.

Stott, C., Drury, J., and Reicher, S. (2016) ‘On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney’, British Journal of Criminology.

Tajfel, H. (ed.) (1978) Differentiation between Social Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations, London, Academic Press.

Tajfel, H., and Turner, J. (1979) ‘An integrative theory of intergroup conflict’, in Austin, W. G. and Worchel, S.(eds), The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations, Monterey, CA, Brooks/Cole, pp. 33–48.

Tileagă, C. (2009) ‘The social organization of representations of history: The textual accomplishment of coming to terms with the past’, British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 337−55.

Van Zomeren, M. (2016) ‘Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating core motivations and features of the social structure in the political psychology of political action’, Advances in Political Psychology, vol. 37, pp. 1−28.

Van Zomeren, M., Postmes, T., and Spears, R. (2008) ‘Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives’, Psychological Bulletin, vol. 134, pp. 504–535.

Wetherell, M. and Potter, J. (1992) Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation, Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf.