Introduction to Political Psychology

Develop Your Social Skills and Understand the Psychology of the Culture Wars

4.20 (136 reviews)
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Nov 2017
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What you will learn

You will learn how unconscious processes guide our behaviour

You will be able to describe the various universal moral intuitions that help us make moral decisions

You will understand why most people do not change their minds when given facts

You will be able to explain how personality traits impact our political ideologies

Description

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Are you tired of seeing one political side shouting over another? Do you struggle to understand why people see some things as morally fine, but you think they're abhorrent? If so, you need to delve into The Social Psychology of the Moral and Political Mind.

In this course, you will:

- Learn about how people make moral decisions based on automatic gut reactions, rather than reason and logic

- Understand the foundations of human morality, personality, and motivated decision-making

- Hear about the psychological evidence behind 'liberals' and 'conservatives' having different psychological make-ups

- Apply the evidence to current political debates


This course gives you what you need to know to understand the social psychology of the culture wars - fast. You will be learning all of this from an expert in this field. I am a university-based psychology lecturer, a practising research psychologist, and have published academic papers in the area of social psychology.


I hope you enjoy the course, and will be happy to answer an questions you have about the content. 

Welcome aboard!

Content

Introduction

Course Introduction
Instructor Introduction

The Moral Psychology of Politics

Introducing the Three Principles of Moral Psychology
Principle 1: "Morality Binds and Blinds"
Principle 2: "Think First, Rationalise Later"
Principle 3: "Morality is Multifaceted"
Morality as an Audio-Equaliser
Hot-Button Topics

Motivated Cognition

Introducing the Confirmation Bias
BONUS LECTURE: The Motivated Problem of 'Fake News'

Conclusions

Course Conclusions

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Reviews

Kian
February 7, 2023
Very useful and clear explanations. I would have liked to hear a little more about the literature on (rational) political ignorance, which suggests the possibility of overcoming motivated reasoning is highly unlikely.
Ayriss
November 8, 2022
Well, it's seems a bit more challenging to understand how we can interpret agreements in a daily basis how our experiences lead to thinking which is a means to satisfy a standard many are exposed to and how we can rationalize our biases ultimately maintains, status quo.. deliberately I must say, I may by some accounts be questionable and held suspect to imply there's no change. Our evolution requires discovering problems to fix. Not everyone 'agrees' no matter how they age that we life is a evolutionary process or subject. Good challenge; to approach all the threads to accommodate political environments.
Sy
October 11, 2022
Pretty good info. Though a bit skewed at times. One example: "Liberals are harder to disgust than conservatives." I would say Liberals are just disgusted by different things, because they value different things. Saying that one group's values are valid, and the other's are not, is skewed / biased.
Ricardo
November 26, 2021
Me gusto mucho, temas interesantes, bien explicados, tal vez faltaría abundar en algunos como el tema de la propaganda política.
K
September 3, 2019
A good introduction to subject of Political Psychology though i would have liked a little more content. But nonetheless i am satisfied with the objectivity shown buy the presenter.
Martin
July 11, 2019
Stringent and to the point. Very good as a primer to give you an orientation on the subject - that is brief enough to be digested in a short time, but substantial enough to begin building an understanding. Just right if you want to begin to deepen this subject.
Michael
April 21, 2018
The instructor did a terrific job of taking research brilliant by Jonathan Haidt and making it accessible and so clear. Excellent work! great course! Trenchant and timely ideas/recommendations! Much gratitude!
John
November 5, 2017
The only thing I would add would be more in-depth analysis of the recent campaigns of Brexit and Trumpism as well as an analysis of far leftist movements
Ritesh
September 27, 2017
examples are quite good make sure make u r words more simple and clear and slow ..... but for example point of view its cool..at hot buttons its good

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