A student who successfully completes this course:
- 1a) describes basic theories proposed in political psychology, such as system justification, authoritarian personality, social identity, modern racism theory or realistic conflict theory
- 1b) distinguishes between how the different theories explain similar outcomes through different mechanisms
- 1c) applies the distinction between psychological political science versus political psychology to evaluate the weekly readings throughout the course.
- 2a) illustrates the theoretical or empirical findings by examples from Turkey in his/her weekly reaction paper
- 2b) explains daily political behaviors from a psychological standpoint (besides the "rational decision maker" assumption frequently employed in political science)
- 2c) analyzes current political issues (e.g., war, conflict, collective violence, racism) through the perspective of political psychology to judge its shortcomings and contributions.
- 3a) proposes 3 research ideas
- 3b) criticizes and comments on other students research ideas
- 3c) effectively communicates and presents these ideas during class time within 10-15 minutes.
- 4a) writes 10 critical reflections on current (and classical) readings in the area of political psychology
- 4b) points out limitations in the literature in terms of methods, subject matter, or other cultural biases that may limit their applicability
- 4c) extends the findings to new social and political issues around them