Academics

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Academics

The study of political psychology centers on understanding how leaders and ordinary citizens make political judgments and the consequences these have for the broader political system.

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Graduate Minor in Political Psychology

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A collaboration among the University of Minnesota Departments of Psychology, Political Science, and the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, the Graduate Minor in Political Psychology is designed to foster a foundation in basic areas of political psychology: social attitudes and cognition, judgment and decision making, group relations, personality and leadership, mass communication, public opinion, mass political behavior, and political socialization.

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