This seminar is designed to acquaint students with some selected works from the enormous body of literature on nationalism, racism and populism from a political psychology point of view. We will get to discuss the following topics in a broad sense.
Nationalism: different approaches of studying nationalism and various measurement techniques of nationalistic attitudes as well as the experimental approaches to the study of nationalism
Populism: an overview of quickly developing field of research, that of studying how a preference for populist and anti-politics discourses can be understood at a psychological level, mostly, but not exclusively, through the use
of surveys and experiments.
Racism: conventional and alternative approaches to racism