Abstract

PEREZ GAVIRIA, Martha Elena. Political Psychology: The Missing Link in Times of Crisis. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2012, vol.6, n.1, pp.149-152. ISSN 1900-2386.

This paper presents a reflection on the development and application fields of political psychology and how, in the face of modern times, this knowledge could contribute to the understanding of vital issues affecting the lives of people. Presents some considerations about their background, conceptualization and issues, then analyze the agendas worked and the proposed agendas for both the strengthening of political psychology, and the study of issues that demand response, we conclude that this is an area that requires a new agenda for strengthening the discipline and to tackle the different problems from new rationales to explain the complexity of these phenomena. We conclude that this area of psychology has gone through fundamental questions that respond to complex phenomena of political behavior, as is necessary to create a new agenda that confronts phenomena such importance, such as those relating to the psychology of war , the indifference of citizens, globalization and its impact on individual behavior.

Keywords : political psychology; socialization; political.

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