Questions tagged [political-psychology]
An interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding political science, politicians and political behavior through the use of psychological theories.
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Name of the psychological phenomenon of doing something just because you've already started doing it?
I feel like people really often do things just because they've already started doing it.
One example could be the Electronic Evidence of Sales just established in Czechia. It's a system monitoring ...
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Are there psychological explanations for people being drawn to neo-nazism or other bad ideologues?
Are there psychological explanations for people being drawn to neo-nazism or other bad ideologues?
Since surely the people are not believing in them for no reason. But what is it that they try to ...
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Physiological differences between brains of Conservatives and Liberals
I work for a non-profit research organization and I have been assigned to do research on this topic. I have been doing my best to find studies on this topic but every website and article seems to ...
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What is the most accurate name for the effect where people find excuses for flaws by leaders?
A lot of the time, especially in political behaviour, people are likely to ignore the flaws of a leader or in some cases to somehow spin some bizarre positive angle.
For example, corruption of public ...
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Does denying climate change work similar to believing the earth is flat?
I have a vague idea how believing in a flat earth may work. (Not enough to write it down)
But it still irritates me that an appreciable fraction of the general population in the US deny that climate ...
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