Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1994, Vol 39(2), 225. Reviews the book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John Zaller (1992). The author's commendable effort to specify a model of mass opinion formation offers readers an introduction to the prevailing vi

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.

Статья посвящена вопросам влияния власти на поведение человека. Авторы рассматривают данные различных источников, в которых увеличение власти связывается с напористостью, а ее уменьшение - с подавленностью. Конкретно, власть ассоциируется с: а) позитивным аффектом; б) вниманием к вознаграждению и к свойствам других, удовлетворяющим личные цели; в) автоматической переработкой информации и резкими суждениями; г) расторможенным социальным поведением. Уменьшение власти, напротив, ассоциируется с: а) негативным аффектом; б) вниманием к угрозам и наказаниям, к интересам других и к тем характеристикам я, которые отвечают целям других; в) контролируемой переработкой информации и совещательным типом рассуждений; г) подавленным социальным поведением. Обсуждаются также последствия этих паттернов поведения, связанных с властью, и потенциальные модераторы.

Power, approach, and inhibition. Власть, напористость и подавленность

Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion

Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Most educated people nowadays know that we share over 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees. It does not disconcert us. The Victorians may have reacted with outrage to the proposition that we share our ancestors with the great apes, but we now live comfortably with the knowledge of our cousinhood.

We also share 50% of our DNA with bananas. This is a little harder to come to terms with. We cannot know how the bananas feel about it, but many humans may experience a frisson on learning this fact. The frisson may only be a faint echo of the existential horror that Darwin's contemporaries had to deal with. All the same, it gives us some sense of the blow that he delivered to their self‐esteem.

Modern doctors have a somewhat peculiar relationship with Darwinism and evolutionary biology. The problem is not one of disbelief. Only a small minority of doctors still have anti‐Darwinian views about the origin of species or the descent of man. No doubt they continue to defend these in the same way that the Inquisition …

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Darwin's dangerous idea.

The Road to Psychopathology: Neoliberalism and the Human Mind

Who is the Neoliberal? Exploring Neoliberal Beliefs across East and West

The present study adds to the framing literature by providing a test of Mauro Porto’s “News Diversity” standard for professional journalism: providing multiple, equally persuasive frames in every n...

A Test of the “News Diversity” Standard: Single Frames, Multiple Frames, and Values Regarding the Ukraine Conflict

Neoliberalism asserts that to preserve individual liberty, an effective competitive market must be established to allow individuals to freely choose their economic activities and to reward individuals according to their merits. This ideology has been criticized for condoning social inequality by attributing the presence of social hierarchy to innate or learned personal qualities. We review existing psychological research that has treated neoliberalism as a cluster of personal beliefs and supplement this review with a cross-cultural analysis of 40 societies that differ along two dimensions of neoliberalism: presence of economic freedom and believing in meritocracy. At the individual level, subscription to neoliberalism is positively associated with confidence in personal control, endorsement of system justification, social exclusion of disadvantaged groups, and reluctance to take remedial collective actions that would reduce social inequality. At the society level, the presence of economic freedom and popular support for meritocracy in prototypic neoliberal societies jointly predict greater acceptance of unequal power distribution in these societies, even after controlling for the actual level of economic inequality.

The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality

Democracy for Realists delivers a long-overdue attack upon apologetics for American political realities. Achen and Bartels argue that the “folk theory of democracy” is not an accurate description o...

Peter Beattie

Papers

The Road to Psychopathology: Neoliberalism and the Human Mind

Who is the Neoliberal? Exploring Neoliberal Beliefs across East and West

A Test of the “News Diversity” Standard: Single Frames, Multiple Frames, and Values Regarding the Ukraine Conflict

The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality

Theory, Media, and Democracy for Realists