Contributions of the Cognitive Approach to Political Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6337266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen M Mcgraw (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 805-832 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0162-895x.00217 |
| OpenAlex | W2110638880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 95 |
The social cognition tradition has had a strong impact on political psychology scholarship in the last part of the 20th century. The purpose of this essay is to review the contributions of the cognitive approach in helping political psychologists to better understand how citizens think about the world of politics. I consider research concerned with both the mental structure or representation of information about the political world and research concerned with specifying the cognitive processes that produce political judgments and opinion, and conclude that political cognition scholarship has begun to live up to its promise. In the second part of the essay, I suggest a research agenda for the future, pointing to ten directions for extending the political cognition paradigm
Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Political psychology · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Scholarship · Social cognition · Social science · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Political Psychology and Choice
Individuals in Movements
How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest
Mudança institucional e atitudes políticas
Culture Matters
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places? Foreign Law and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court
Understanding Voter Resistance to Political Campaigns
Measuring the Unmeasurable? Toward Operationalizing On-line and Memory-Based Political Judgments in Surveys
Counterspeech as a form of political participation
Personalizing Politics
Die Schema-Theorie in der Medienwirkungsforschung
Using Nonprofit Narratives and News Media Framing to Depict Air Pollution in Delhi, India
News Images, Race, and Attribution in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation
Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and Processes of Candidate Evaluation
Personifying the State
Predicting the Vote
The Limitations of Heuristics for Political Elites
Terrorists and Democrats
Inclusionary and Exclusionary Preferences
Democracy has Hamlet’s Problem
The Hot, the Cold and the Lukewarm
It’s Not All About Resources
Sex and the Grand Old Party
A Matter of Distinction
Nonrepresentative Representatives
The psychology of attitudes
Political tolerance and American democracy
Human inference
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
What Americans know about politics and why it matters
The Poly-Psy Relationship
Affect and Political Judgment
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Social Cognition
Impersonal Influence
Experimental Foundations of Political Science
Perceiving persons and groups.
The relationship between memory and judgment depends on whether the judgment task is memory-based or on-line.
Political Awareness, Elite Opinion Leadership, and the Mass Survey Response
The Effects of General and Domain-Specific Expertise on Political Memory and Judgment
Home Style
Human groups and social categories
Is Anyone Responsible?
Structure of Decision
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy
Does Gender Make a Difference? An Experimental Examination of Sex Stereotypes and Press Patterns in Statewide Campaigns
Where Is the Schema? Going Beyond the “S” Word in Political Psychology
A Continuum of Impression Formation, from Category-Based to Individuating Processes
Response strategies for coping with the cognitive demands of attitude measures in surveys
Risk and Culture
Individual and Contextual Influences on Group Identification
Political expertise and the structural mediators of candidate evaluations
Structures of social life
Common fate, similarity, and other indices of the status of aggregates of persons as social entities
Individual and Contextual Variations in Political Candidate Appraisal
Culture and the self
On the Asking of Relevant Questions
Measuring Issue Preferences
The Structure of Emotional Response
A Simple Theory of the Survey Response
The Influence of Group Identifications on Political Perception and Evaluation
You Must Remember This
The Ecological Niche of Political Psychology
Policy-Relevant Theory and the Challenge of Diagnosis
A Framework for the Study of Public Mood
Political Psychology
The Role of Belief Systems and Schemas in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Why voters fail information tests
What's in a word
The cognitive and affective components of political attitudes
Construct accessibility and electoral choice
Black-box models of candidate evaluation
Memory for political actors
Reconsidering the Measurement of Political Knowledge
Misperceptions About Perceptual Bias
Rationalization and Derivation Processes in Survey Studies of Political Candidate Evaluation
When White Voters Evaluate Black Candidates
Formal Models in Political Science
Accessibility and the Political Utility of Partisan and Ideological Orientations
Racial Stereotypes and Whites' Political Views of Blacks in the Context of Welfare and Crime
Rational Learning and Partisan Attitudes
News Media Impact on the Ingredients of Presidential Evaluations
Candidate Perception in an Ambiguous World
Gender Stereotypes and the Perception of Male and Female Candidates
The Media's Role in Public Negativity Toward Congress
The Breadth, Depth, and Utility of Class, Partisan, and Ideological Schemata
Public Perceptions of Race and Crime
Social Identities and Political Intolerance
How People Organize the Political World
Emotional Reactions to the Economy
The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in Information Processing about Political Candidates
The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments
Different Paths to the Same Result
Measuring Political Knowledge
The Role of Social Groups in Political Thinking
Static, dynamic, and causative bipolarity of affect
Keeping the voter's limits in mind
Affective and semantic components in political person perception
The complexity–extremity effect and age-based stereotyping
Schematic effects of social attitudes on information processing and recall
Social Foundations of Cognition
Presidential Character Revisited
Accounting for the effects of accountability
Cognitive processes underlying context effects in attitude measurement
A Partisan Schema for Political Information Processing
Schema Theory
The Responsive Voter
Where is the Schema? Critiques
Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting
Media Framing of a Civil Liberties Conflict and Its Effect on Tolerance
Schematic Assessments of Presidential Candidates
Issues, Candidate Image, and Priming
Attitude Attribution
Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote
An Impression-Driven Model of Candidate Evaluation
The Impact of the Gulf War on the Ingredients of Presidential Evaluations
Innovations in Experimental Design in Attitude Surveys
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |