ABSTRACT
History, philosophy, geography, anthropology, and others could be depicted in Figure 2.1 as well-I have not shown the interconnections between (say) mathematics and economics because we’re not primarily interested in these here-but you get the general idea. Although different social scientists will of course conceive of different “master disciplines” at the center, this kind of scheme will make some sense to most political scientists. We can conceive of political psychology most easily as a bridge between two disciplines. Beyond this simple definition, however, a glance at some past issues of the academic journal dedicated to the intersecting area we are concerned with in this book-entitled, appropriately enough, Political Psychology-reveals that there are many different subfields, specialisms, and approaches within it. Consequently, there are many different ways of teaching a course in political psychology.
