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Subject Index

A
Affect, 48 –51
Al Qaeda, 236 –238
Ally image, 44, 45, 52
in Northern Ireland, 200
Altruists, 249
and empathy, 249
Argentina, 239 –241
dirty war in 239 –241
punishment of perpetrators, 251 –252
Assimilation effect, 43
Attitudes, See also Information processing, 57 –59,
125 –151
and behavior, 57 –58
constraint, 129
defined, 57
and political socialization, 143 –145
and political sophistication in America, 126 –133
and schema, 150 –151
stability, 129
and tolerance, 145 –147
and the vote, 135 –139
Attribution theory, 39
Fundamental Attribution Error, 25, 39, 90
phenomenal absolutism error, 154
ultimate attribution error, 154
Authoritarian personality, 23 –24
criticisms of, 24
and race in South Africa, 170
and racism, 156
Availability heuristic, 39
Avoidance of value trade-offs, 41

B
Balance theory, 40
balance defined, 40
response to imbalance and inconsistency, 40 –41
Barbarian image, 53
in Bosnia, 176
of Serbs, 203
Bay of Pigs, 81 –84
and bureaucratic politics, 83 –84
and groupthink, 81
and new group syndrome, 82 –83
Beliefs, defined, 39
belief systems, 125, 132
Black and white model, 129
Bolstering, 41
Bosnia, 175 –178, 219 –220
and ethnic cleansing, 177 –178
identities in, 176
Brazil, 167 –168
Bush, G. H. W., 27, 102, 128, 271
Bush, G. W., 26 –27, 55, 79, 109, 111, 128, 130
Bystanders, 247 –248
and diffusion of responsibility
and denial, 248

C
Candidate characteristics, 129
Carter, J., 114, 120 –122
Castro, F., 39, 81 –83
Chechnya, 207 –208
Chicken, game of, 265 –266
irrevocable commitment, 266
China, 215 –217
nationalism in 215 –217
Christian identity, 231
Clinton, W. J., 7, 21, 26 –27, 66, 97, 107 –122, 134
Coalitions, 91 –92
Cognition, See also, Information processing, 38 –39
and attitudes, 126 –133, 135
and categorization, 37, 41 –45
Cognitive categories, See also, Images, Stereotypes
41 –45,
and schema, 42,
and stereotypes, 43
Cognitive complexity, 29 –30,
and G. W. Bush, 109
and Clinton, 108, 114 –119
and information processing, 29
and leaders, 105
Cognitive processes, 9, 39
Collective traps, 90
Colonial image, 56
in Northern Ireland, 199 –200
Columbia, 241
Compliance, 73
Conflict resolution, 92, 180 –186, 217 –220,
249 –253
perspective-taking, 183
and policing, 185 –186
and punishment of perpetrators, 251 –253
shared sovereignty strategies, 182 –184
and stereotypes, 183
truth and reconciliation comsions, 251 –253
utilitarian strategies, 184

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Publication Information: Book Title: Introduction to Political Psychology. Contributors: Martha Cottam - author, Beth Dietz-Uhler - author, Elena Mastors - author, Thomas Preston - author. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication Year: 2004. Page Number: 337.
    
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