political polarization
Your presentation will focus on one or two things you have learned in studying political psychology and how it has changed your thinking about a populism/authortitarianism/political polarization. As with previous assignments, presentations will be graded according to the quality of analysis and synthesis presented.
Speaking notes for all presenters are to be submitted via Brightspace prior to class on June 22. These notes should consist of no more than 5 sheets/pages, i.e, a cover sheet plus 4 content pages.
Cover Sheet
Your presentation title and name.
Page 1
Summarize one thing that you have learned in studying political psychology this term that has changed your mind about a political event, issue, or phenomenon.
Page 2
Summarize the event, issue, or phenomenon about which you have changed your mind.
Page 3
Summarize how prior to studying political psychology this term you were wrong in your thinking about the event, issue, or phenomenon.
Page 4
Summarize how at the end of the course you now think differently about the event, issue, or phenomenon.
Neuropsychology
Joseph LeDoux, 2002. “Emotion, Memory and the Brain”,ScientificAmerican.Antoine Bechera et al., Deciding Advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy.Sciencevol 275, 1293-129
PopulismMichael Kazin, 2017. “Preface to the 2017 Printing: Who Speaks for the PeopleNow? pp xi-xv
inThePopulistPersuasion:AnAmericanHistory, revised edition.Kazin 2017AuthoritarianismMarlies Glasius, 2018. “What Authoritarianism is—and is not” InternationalAffairs 84:3 only pp 515-519. LinkPolarizationEzra Klein, (2020) WhyWe’rePolarized. Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster)Klein pp 12-17;Klein pp 30-33
Ivan P.Pavlov, 1927.ConditionedReflexes, Lectures 2-4.
