Political psychology

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary science to the study of the relations between power, the exercise of power and dominion, and human subjectivity - the motivation of individuals, groups (including people ) and institutions to exercise of power and domination.

The term was introduced in 1860 by Adolf Bastian. Since 1993, the magazine devoted to political psychology this question. Two of the most important representatives of modern political psychology in the 20th century were Prof. Klaus Horn of Frankfurt and Professor Peter Brückner from Hannover.

Sample question positions are the emergence of racism, determinants of voting behavior, subjective determinants of wars, the role of leaders or the emotional legacies of National Socialism.

The Political Psychology will occasionally delimited by Psycho policy that deals with the application of psychology in politics or out of the view of the same busy.