Political Attitudes and Cognition
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Course Introduction
•Business details
•Format of the course
•Course overview
–Political evaluation: Forming and expressing positive and negative views of political objects.
–Political judgment: Assessing the qualities and characteristics of political objects.
–Political decisions: choosing between two or more alternatives.
–Acquiring, processing, storing, and using political information.
–Relationships: how our social motives and goals influence our politics.
•Defining attitudes
•The place of psychology in the study of politics, and vice-versa.