Political Psychology and COVID-19 Flashcards

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What is political psychology? (according to Huddy et la 2013)

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  • an application of whatt is known ab human psych to the study of politics
  • studies the psychological underpinnings of political beh & attitudes
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What sort of politics topics could we explore?

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  • voter beh
  • political attitudes
  • influence of emotion of political decision mamking
  • the role of cog biases in political beliefs
  • impact of social identity on political attitudes and beh
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What diff approaches from psych can be applied to politics?

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biopsych, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology, evolutionary psych, social & dev, cog & intergroup relations

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personality = compled psych concept - what does it refer to

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the habitual and distinct patterns of physical and mental activity that = distinguishes one indiv from another

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What is personality?

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A dynamic system of psychological structures & processes that mediates the r/s between an indiv and the env

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Falcao et al (2023) - personalities and voting

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  • voters personality traits = represnt significant predictins of voting decisions
  • Warmth & competance represnted robust short term predictors of eval of candidates, turnout decison, demographic variables
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Political Implications - what may the cause?

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They cause parties to nominate candidates who = perceived as appealing to electorate, personalising campaigns to give them visibility and capitalise on their mobilising potential

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Hirsh et al 2002 - on persuasive communication

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Hirsh believed persuasuve communiction = effective when tailored to peoples unique psychological characteristics and motivations

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personality prediction - Hirsh et al

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People’s personality profiles have been predicted from personal websites, blogs, twitter messages, facebook profiles & instagram pictures

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Matz et al 2017

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sought to test effects of psychological persuasion on ppls behaviour in real world context

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How did Cambridge Analytica - test effects of psychological persuasion on ppls behaviour in real world context?

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  • Dark video ads
  • Dark posted ad looks like a facebook page but doesn’t show up on pages public timelines - only seen by the ppl it was targeted it at
  • versions of these were targeted to individual’s based of their psychological ‘profile’
  • These profiles were based on the big five model of personalitty
    - openness
    - conscientiouness
    - extraversion
    - agreeableness
    - neuroticism
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What is a real world example of test effects of psychological persuasion on ppls behaviour in real world context?

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John Bolton 2014 campaign - working to support republican candidates for the senate

The first = targeted individuals who score highly on the neurotic scale

The second aiming = for agreeable individuals

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Why is this method of - test effects of psychological persuasion on ppls behaviour in real world context a problem?

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Privacy of users’ data (Matz et al 2020)
- blurred lines between public and private info
- outdated practices of notice and consent
- challange traditional conceptualisations of privacy
in the context of psychological targetting and
profiling

  - Raises Qs regarding indiv autonomy and freedom 
    of choce as voters
  - "what if your political opinions are not actually 
      yours" (wetherell 2018)
 - Indivds may recieve ideologically infused messages 
   tailored to their personal fears, intrests and 
   preconceptions through social media (Richterich 
   2018)
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2020/21 Covid - 19

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  • Flattening the curve
  • A time when there was no vaccination nor ‘cure’

A new normal of:
- Lockdown / physical distancing from others
- regular hand washing
- wearing face masks
- complying w test & trace guidlines

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Lessons learnt from intergroup psychology

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  • given the threat to personal health, unsuprising that research and commentary iitally focussed on factors relating to individual risk or compliance
  • there was also a lot to learn from intergroup relations and social identity dynamics
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Abrams & Hogg, 1988 - lessons learnt

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People’s social identities provide psychologically meaningful frames withing which to define themselves and to navigate the social world

People tend to come together in time of crisis