2000
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895x.00217
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Contributions of the Cognitive Approach to Political Psychology

Abstract: 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 pol… Show more

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“…Second, the results extend our understanding of the conditions under which on-line and memory-based processing are likely to occur (Lavine, 2002;McGraw, 2000McGraw, , 2003 by demonstrating that the subjective experiences of uncertainty, and to a lesser extent ambivalence, are associated with an increased propensity to engage in memory-based processing. These results augment Zaller and Feldman's (1992) claim that ambivalence plays an important role in "top of the head" (or memory-based) opinion formation.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…Second, the results extend our understanding of the conditions under which on-line and memory-based processing are likely to occur (Lavine, 2002;McGraw, 2000McGraw, , 2003 by demonstrating that the subjective experiences of uncertainty, and to a lesser extent ambivalence, are associated with an increased propensity to engage in memory-based processing. These results augment Zaller and Feldman's (1992) claim that ambivalence plays an important role in "top of the head" (or memory-based) opinion formation.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…While this may be a rational allocation of citizens' resources, in either the economic (Downs 1957) or psychological (Fiske/Taylor 1991) sense, the question remains: how do people who do not know or care much about politics wind up creating a responsive democracy? This combination is vital today because of the rapid convergence of political and social psychology, as researchers in the two fields increasingly cite each others work -citations to Philip Converse run seven lines in the index of the recent Handbook of Social Psychology (Gilbert et al 1998) -, use common terminology and even draw paychecks from the same departments (McGraw 2000). We will do this by reviewing modern public opinion research from an information processing perspective.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using the adjustment and anchoring heuristic means starting from an initial value that is known and making adjustments from there based on the current situation [25]. There are many other heuristics that have been identified in political science and psychological literature, with more than fifty distinct heuristics named [26]. The danger of this seemingly endless proliferation of heuristics is that keeping track of them all and discovering how individuals coordinate these multiple judgment strategies becomes overwhelmingly complex.…”
Section: Theories Of Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The application of the cognitive approach to domestic politics and voting practices is the most prevalent [26,27]. Other applications include understanding how heuristics are used by political elites [23] and security policy makers [24].…”
Section: Theories Of Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%