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Alford, J. R., Hatemi, P. K., Hibbing, J. R., Martin, N. G., & Eaves, L. J. (2011). The politics of mate choice. e Journal of Politics, 73(02), 362-379

Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature neuroscience, 10(10), 1246-1247

Baldassarri,D.&Goldberg, A. (2014). Neither ideologues nor agnostics: Alternative voters’ belief system in an age of partisan politicsÕ. American Journal of Sociology, 120(1), 45-95

Brewer, M. B. (1999). The psychology of prejudice: Ingroup love and outgroup hate? Journal of Social Issues, 55(3), 429-444

Carney, D. R., Jost, J. T., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind. Political Psychology, Vol.29(6), pp.807-840

Cohen, G. L. (2003). Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(5), 808

Enos, R. D. (2014). Causal e.ect of intergroup contact on exclusionary attitudes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(10), 3699-3704

Feldman, S. (2003). Enforcing Social Conformity: A Theory of Authoritarianism. Political Psychology, Vol.24(1), pp.41-74

Fowler, J. H. (2005). Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(19), 7047-7049

Gerber, A. S., Green, D. P., & Larimer, C. W. (2008). Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment. American Political Science Review, Vol.102(1), pp.33-48

Gerber, A. S., Huber, G. A., Doherty, D., Dowling, C. M., & Ha, S. E. (2010). Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts. American Political Science Review, Vol.104(1), pp.111-133

Hatemi, P. K. & McDermott, R. (2012a). A neurobiological approach to foreign policy analysis: identifying individual di.erences in political violence. Foreign Policy Analysis, 8(2), 111-129

Hatemi, P. K. &McDermott, R. (2012b). Broadening political psychology. Political Psychology, 33(1), 11-25

Hatemi, P. K., Eaves, L., & McDermott, R. (2012). It’s the end of ideology as we know it. Journal of Teoretical Politics, 24(3), 345-369

Houghton, D. P. (2014). Political psychology: situations, individuals, and cases. Routledge.

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Huddy, L., Sears, D. O., & Levy, J. S. (2013). The oxford handbook of political psychology. Oxford University Press.

• Chapter: Introduction -eoretical Foundations of Political Psychology

• Chapter: Degrees of Rationality in Politics (D. Chong).

Jennings, M. K. & Niemi, R. G. (1968). The transmission of political values from parent to child. American Political Science Review, 62(01).169-184

Jordan, C. H. & Zanna, M. P. (1999). How to read a journal article in social psychology. In R. F. Baumeister (Ed.), The self in social psychology. Psychology Press

Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 339

Klofstad, C. A., Sokhey, A. E., & McClurg, S. D. (2013). Disagreeing about disagreement: how conflict in social networks a.ects political behavior. American Journal of Political Science, 57(1), 120-134

Lerner, J. S. & Keltner, D. (2001). Fear, anger, and risk. Journal of personality and social psychology, 81(1), 146

Lodge, M. & Taber, C. S. (2005). The automaticity of a.ect for political leaders, groups, and issues: an experimental test of the hot cognition hypothesis. Political Psychology, 26(3), 455-482

Lupia, A. (1994). Shortcuts versus encyclopedias: information and voting behavior in california insurance reform elections. American Political Science Review, 88(01), 63-76

Marcus, G. E. & MacKuen, M. B. (1993). Anxiety, enthusiasm, and the vote: the emotional underpinnings of learning and involvement during presidential campaigns. American Political Science Review, 87(03), 672-685

McDermott, R., Tingley,D., Cowden, J., Frazzetto, G.,&Johnson,D.D. (2009). Monoamine oxidase a gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(7), 2118-2123

McDermott, R. (2002). Experimental methods in political science. Annual Review of Political Science, 5 (1), 31-61

McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology,415-444

Milgram, S. (1965). Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority. Human relations, 18(1), 57-76.

Mondak, J. J., Hibbing, M. V., Canache, D., Seligson, M. A., & Anderson, M. R. (2010).Personality and civic engagement: An integrative framework for the study of trait effects on political behavior. American Political Science Review, 104(1). 85-110

Petersen, M. B. (2012). Social welfare as small-scale help: evolutionary psychology and the deservingness heuristic. American Journal of Political Science, 56(1), 1-16

Petersen, M. B. (2015). Evolutionary political psychology: On the origin and structure of heuristics and biases in politics. Political Psychology, 36(S1), 45-78.

Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., Stallworth, L. M., & Malle, B. F. (1994). Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. Journal of personality and social psychology, 67(4), 741

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Redlawsk, D. P. (2002). Hot cognition or cool consideration? testing the e.ects of motivated reasoning on political decision making. e Journal of Politics, 64(04), 1021-1044

Schreiber, D., Fonzo, G., Simmons, A. N., Dawes, C. T., Flagan, T., Fowler, J. H., & Paulus, M. P. (2013). Red brain, blue brain: Evaluative processes di.er in Democrats and Republicans. PLoS ONE, 8(2)

Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Van Laar, C., & Levin, S. (2004). Social dominance theory: Its agenda and method. Political Psychology, 25(6), 845-880

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Small, D. A., Lerner, J. S., & Fischho., B. (2006). Emotion priming and attributions for terrorism: Americans’ reactions in a national eld experiment. Political Psychology, 27(2), 289-298

Tagar, M. R., Federico, C. M., Lyons, K. E., Ludeke, S., & Koenig, M. A. (2014). Heralding the authoritarian? Orientation toward authority in early childhood. Psychological science, vol. 25 no. 4, 883-892

Tajfel, H. (1982). Social psychology of intergroup relations. Annual review of psychology, 33(1), 1-39

Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185(4157), 1124-1131

See also the response to this article: Gigerenzer, G. (1996). On narrow norms and vague heuristics: a reply to Kahneman and Tversky. Psychological Review, Vol.103(3), p.592(5)

Verhulst, B., Eaves, L. J., & Hatemi, P. K. (2012). Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies. American Journal of Political Science, Vol.56(1), pp.34-51

See also the Errata to the article: Ludeke, S. G. & Rasmussen, S. H. R. (2016). Personality correlates of sociopolitical attitudes in the big five and eysenckian models. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 30-36

Zajonc, R. B. (1980). Feeling and thinking: preferences need no inferences. American psychologist, 35(2), 151

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