The Political Psychology of Turkish Political Behavior: Introduction by the Special Issue Editor

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One can list a number of exemplary studies conducted by two famous Turkish scholars: Kalaycıoğlu and Çarkoğlu. See, for example, Kalaycıoğlu, “Attitudinal Orientation to Party Organizations in Turkey in the 2000s”; Kalaycıoğlu, “Public Choice and Foreign Affairs”; Kalaycıoğlu, “Kulturkampf in Turkey: The Constitutional Referendum of 12 September 2010”; Kalaycıoğlu, “Justice and Development Party at the Helm”; Çarkoğlu, “Political Preferences of the Turkish Electorate”; Çarkoğlu, “The Nature of Left-Right Ideological Self-placement in the Turkish Context”; Çarkoğlu, “Who Wants Full Membership?”.

Here, I would like to refer the reader to the following sources for more discussion about the discipline: Iyengar and McGuire, Explorations in Political Psychology; Lodge and McGraw, Political Judgment: Structure and Process; Kuklinski, Citizens and Politics; Sears, Huddy, and Jervis, Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology; Jost and Sidanius, Political Psychology; Houghton, Political Psychology; Kuklinski, Thinking about Political Psychology; Cottam et al., Introduction to Political Psychology.

I principally rely on McGuire's well-known chapter discussing the background of political psychology. McGuire, “The Poly-Psy Relationship”.

Simon, Models of Bounded Rationality; Sniderman, Brody, and Tetlock, Reasoning and Choice; Lupia, McCubbins, and Popkin, Elements of Reason.

Campbell et al., The American Voter.

Converse, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.”

Zajonc, “Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need No Inferences”; Lazarus, Emotion and Adaptation; Forgas, “Mood and Judgment”; Zajonc, “Feeling and thinking: Closing the debate over the independence of affect.”

LeDoux, The Emotional Brain.

Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment; Redlawsk, Feeling Politics; Neuman et al., The Affect Effect.

E.g. Zajonc, “Feeling and Thinking…”

Huckfeldt and Sprague, Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication; Mutz, “Cross-cutting Social Networks”; Erisen and Erisen, “The Effect of Social Networks on the Quality of Political Thinking”.

Erisen, Lodge, and Taber, “Affective Contagion in Effortful Political Thinking.”

Schreiber and Iacoboni, “Huxtables on the Brain.”

Alford, Funk, and Hibbing, “Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted”; Fowler, Baker, and Dawes, “Genetic Variation in Political Participation”; For more recent discussion on this topic: the flagship journal of the discipline, Political Psychology, recently published a special issue on Biology, Genetics and Behavior, Hatemi and McDermott “The Political Psychology of Biology, Genetics, and Behavior.”

Alford and Hibbing, “The Origin of Politics”; Lopez and McDermott, “Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science”.

Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin, Foreign-Policy Decision Making; Mintz and DeRouen, Understanding Foreign Policy Decision-Making.

Hermann, “Explaining Foreign Policy Behavior Using the Personal Characteristics of Political Leaders”; Kaarbo and Hermann, “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers.”

Singer and Hudson, Political Psychology and Foreign Policy; Breuning, Foreign Policy Analysis. For a general overview of the interaction between political psychology and foreign policy analysis, please refer to the special issue recently published in Perceptions, particularly Erişen, “An Introduction to Political Psychology for International Relations Scholars.”

Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics.

Jervis, Lebow, and Stein, Psychology and Deterrence; Stein, “Building Politics into Psychology.”

For a general overview, see Hasta, “Siyaset Psikolojisi Kapsamında Türkçe Yayımlanmış Araştırma ve Yazılar.”

Volkan, “The Need to Have Enemies and Allies”; Volkan, Politik Psikoloji; Volkan, Bloodlines.