Citizens and politics: perspectives from political psychology

Prologue 1. Political psychology and the study of citizens and politics James Kuklinski Part I. Affect and Emotion: Section introduction James Kuklinski 2. The role of affect in symbolic politics David O. Sears 3. Emotions and politics: the dynamic functions of emotionality George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen 4. Cognitive neuroscience, emotion, and leadership Roger D. Masters 5. Commentary: emotion as virtue and vice Gerald L. Clore and Linda M. Isbell Part II. Political Cognition: Section introduction James Kuklinski 6. An experimental study of information search, memory, and decision making during a political campaign Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk 7. Political accounts and attribution processes Kathleen M. McGraw 8. The motivated construction of political judgments Charles S. Taber, Jill Glathar and Milton Lodge 9. Commentary: on the dynamic and goal-oriented nature of (candidate) evaluations Sharon Shavitt and Michelle R. Nelson Part III. Political Attitudes and Perceptions: Section introduction James Kuklinski 10. Public opinion and democratic politics: the problem of nonattitudes and the social construction of political judgment Paul M. Sniderman, Phillip E. Tetlock and Laurel Elms 11. Implications of a latitude-theory model of citizen attitudes for political campaigning, debate, and representation Gregory Andrade Diamond 12. Where you stand depends on what you see: connections among values, perceptions of fact, and political prescriptions Jennifer L. Hochschild 13. Commentary: the meaning of 'attitude' in representative democracies James H. Kuklinski and Jennifer Jerit Part IV. Political Values: Section introduction James Kuklinski 14. Social welfare attitudes and the humanitarian sensibility Stanley Feldman and Marco Steenbergen 15. American individualism reconsidered Gregory B. Markus 16. Political values judgments Laura Stoker Commentary: the study of values Kenneth Rasinski Commentary: the value of politics Melissa A. Orlie.