ABSTRACT

Although it is probably a common impression that Eysenck's work on social attitudes is limited to a single foray, in the form of his 1954 book, The Psychology of Politics, social attitudes in fact constituted one of his very earliest interests—an interest which continues to this day. To my knowledge his earliest paper on the topic was published during the Second World War (Eysenck, 1944) and he continued to defend his position as recently as 1981 (Eysenck, 1981/82), Nonetheless, it is clear that The Psychology of Politics is his major statement in the area. A collection of his later work, together with some minor updating of his position is, however, available in a recent book (Eysenck and Wilson, 1978), also ambitiously entitled The Psychological Basis of Ideology.