ISPP News

International Society of Political Psychology

Spring 2006 Vol. 17 (1)

The purpose of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is to facilitate communication across
disciplinary, geographic and political boundaries, among scholars and concerned individuals in government
and public posts, the communications media and elsewhere, who have a scientific interest in the relationship
between politics and psychological processes. In so doing, ISPP aims to continue to advance scholarship
in political psychology, and to contribute to the usefulness of work in political psychology.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S CORNER useful automated and reporting functions. In addition

to renewing your membership or joining ISPP via the
I ’m hoping to see many of you at the upcoming annual
meeting in Barcelona this July 12 to 15. Information
about Barcelona, the preliminary program, and hotel
web, you can now access the system at any time to
check your membership information, find your member
ID#, and update your mailing address. Above all, the
information is now available at the ISPP website:
system offers a secure way for people to join or renew
http://ispp.org/meet.html. Barcelona promises to be
their memberships on-line without worrying about
one of the larger ISPP meetings in several years with
sending their personal information through the mail.
participants from all over the world representing the
Check out the membership link at http://ispp.org/join.
very best of political psychology.
html. Please remember to use the same email address
we have on record, or you will create a duplicate ac-
I’d like to express my appreciation to Conference Chair
Lupicinio Iniguez Rueda; Program Co-Chairs Yael (continued on next page)
Aronoff and Félix Vázquez; and all of those that have
volunteered to serve as section chairs for the program C•O•N•T•E•N•T•S
(see the preliminary program for a complete listing) for I. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S CORNER
their hard work in organizing the conference. Thanks
also to ISPP President Maritza Montero, ISPP Confer- II. MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ...... 2
ence Planner Linda Patten, and our own Radell Roberts III. JSC NEWS ........................................... 3
here at the Central Office. The number of details that
III. ISPP ANNOUNCEMENTS
go into putting an ISPP conference together is almost
overwhelming and the rewards are too few. Year- 2006 Election Results ............................ 3
after-year, however, our many volunteers manage to ISPP 2006: Barcelona ........................... 4
assemble thought provoking and memorable meetings. ISPP 2007: Portland .............................. 4
Barcelona will surely continue in this tradition. Call for Journal Submissions ................ 4
Latin American Summer Institute ......... 5
Here at the Central Office we have continued to work to IV. PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
improve our ability to meet the needs of our members,
expand the ISPP website, and enhance the visibility of Calls for Papers ..................................... 6
the Society. Most of you have probably noticed by now Listserv Invitation ................................. 6
that the Central Office has established a new member- V. PUBLICATIONS................................. 7
ship renewal system. This system, operated by the same VI. KUDOS............................................... 10
company that provides on-line registration for the ISPP
annual meeting, is available 24/7 and provides some VII. PERSPECTIVES: POLAND ............11

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count. (Contact us to change your email address or if Vice-Presidencies, Executive Committee; special com-
you need help using this system.) Hard-copy renewal mittees to attend a variety of tasks, are the initial steps
forms can also be printed out from our website and for the year in waiting, the year executing, the year
then mailed in with a check or money order, for those going out. Being part of the clockwork, then, begins si-
preferring that option. lently, slowly, but firmly, proving that participation and
commitment go together, one nourishing the other.
After a year in the job I’ve become aware of a number
of special projects that would strengthen the overall Preparing the Annual Conference illustrates this point.
health of the Society. Among the projects I’ve priori- The selection of the site is the object of observation,
tized for the coming year are: to work with the organiz- information, and discussion by the governing bodies
ers of the Summer Institute for Political Psychology of the Society, and also by members invited to join
to better integrate ISPP and SIPP, to explore whether the committee selecting the site, or being consulted
changing the ISPP constitution away from contested in specific matters. The presidential standpoint allows
elections makes sense for an organization of ISPP a general perspective of the many hands and many
size and nature, and to improve the visibility of ISPP minds collaborating to achieve that annual intellectual
in policy circles. feast. This year I have had the intelligent and accurate
help of Yael Aronoff and Félix Vázquez, Scientific
As always, Radell and I look forward to hearing from Program Co-Chairs, who in spite of distance (one in
you at any time. Columbia University, New York; the other at Univer-
—Bruce Dayton sitat Autónoma de Barcelona, in Catalunya, Spain) are
putting a very busy program with, as I write this, some
140 sessions. Professor Lupicinio Iñiguez, Conference
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Chair, also in Catalunya, has been busily preparing a
warm reception for the participants, as well as being

A year runs so fast. Some months before I was writ-

ing my message to the members of ISPP, to be in-
cluded in the 2005 Fall issue. And now I am writing this
responsible for having disseminated the news about
the Conference throughout Europe, attracting many
submissions. And as happens every year, ISPP mem-
farewell message. Yet looking back, these past months bers have contributed with their submissions, giving
have been full. Discussions, committees preparing, and the planning its concrete materialization.
producing the many tasks that keep the Society going;
a Winter meeting of planning and decision-making; 11 At the same time, other projects have begun, other
months to prepare and accomplish the annual challenge projects are already giving fruit; others are being evalu-
of the International Scientific Conference. ated or closed. The Third Decade Plan proposed by
Daniel Bar Tal and supported by Helen Haste in their
ISPP, as those towers in ancient churches that have a respective presidencies has reached the stage where
clockwork with figures coming out at certain hours, every program begins to be evaluated according to its
produces at fixed intervals the appearance of a figure, capacity to respond to the proof of facts, and it seems
the President, that during a minute (make it a year) is to be demonstrating its strength, and also the inevitable
visible. In this metaphor the main piece is the clock- frictions. The Society’s journal had a transition deftly
work. Figures, bells tolling, and the clock needles run- managed by both editorial teams. And all these facts
ning exactly on time depend on the mechanism. From are the demonstration that ISPP is in good health.
the Central Office the Executive Director keeps that
mechanism running, so it can accomplish its mission, During my membership in ISPP I have had the privi-
by the employment of so many devices united in the lege of meeting and working with many interesting
creation of a complex product. people. During my presidency I have had the privilege
to closely work besides them. Thanks to all. And let us
The president’s work begins some years in advance, not meet in July, at Barcelona.
just the year she or he is elected. Governing Councils, —Maritza Montero

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NEWS FROM JSC

ROBERTA SIGEL AWARD WINNERS SPECIAL JSC EVENTS AT

THE BARCELONA MEETING
The Roberta Sigel Award Committee has reached its
decision about the award winners for papers presented Be sure to check out all of the Junior Scholars
at the 2005 Annual Meeting by junior scholars. The events, programs, and workshops at the Barcelona
award for Category I (papers authored only by junior meeting (July 12-15), including: the junior scholars
scholar(s) goes to Daphna Canetti-Nisim for her paper, social hour, mentoring program, mentoring coffee
“The Effect of Religiosity on Endorsement of Demo- hour, mentoring roundtable, publishing workshop,
cratic Values: The Mediating Influence of Authoritari- professional issues roundtable, and the presentation
anism.” The award for Category II (for which the first of the Roberta Sigel Award. We are also working
author is a junior scholar) goes to Rajiv Jhangian & on a roommate matching service BLOG that will
Peter Suedfeld for their paper, “Integrative Complexity be available soon to help those who want to share
and Emotional Positivity during a Terrorist Attack.” rooms and costs. For more information, see the
These awards will be announced and presented by the Junior Scholars web page, http://ispp.org/jsc/junior_
Sigel Award chair Melinda Jackson at the 2006 Annual scholars.html, and watch for the spring issue of the
Meeting in Barcelona. junior scholars newsletter due out later this spring.

CALLING ALL SYLLABI & BIBLIORAPHIES

ISPP ANNOUNCEMENTS
The ISPP Junior Scholar Committee is in the process
of updating our resources links on the ISPP website 2006 ELECTION RESULTS
and we’d like your input. If you have taught a politi-
cal psychology course, send us your syllabus for the The following members have been elected to serve
online syllabus library. Perhaps you have a political the Society beginning in July 2006:
psychology research topic that would be of interest
to others, we’ll gladly post your bibliography to our President Elect:
online archive. Kristen Monroe

If you haven’t noticed these valuable resources before, Vice President:

take a look. Syllabi are located at http://ispp.org/ppsyl. Rose McDermott
html; bibliographies at http://ispp.org/ppbib.html.
Governing Council Members:
To submit either your syllabus or bibliography (or Molly Andrews
both!), please send an electronic version by 17 April Allyson Holbrook
2006 to janice.adelman@cgu.edu with the subject line Angela Kindervater
“ISPP syllabi/bibliographies”. Steve Reicher
Klaus Wasmund
Thanks for your help! Keep your eye on the website
for the new updates in the coming months. For more information on the newly-elected offi-
-Janice Adelman, MSc cers, see http://ispp.org/ELECTIONS2006/ELEC-
ISPP Junior Scholar Committee TIONS06.html
Doctoral Student
School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences For a list of current officers, including continuing
Claremont Graduate University vice presidents and Governing Council members,
see http://issp.org/officers.html

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Special Issue of Political Psychology:

Emotion in Politics
The last several years have witnessed a burst of inter-
est among psychologists in the topic of emotion. No
longer thought to wreak havoc on human rationality,
emotions are increasingly recognized as making a posi-
tive contribution to the human condition. Psychological
research indicates that emotions are implicated in all
aspects of cognition and behavior, including attention,
perception, and memory, as well as attitude change,
reasoning, and decision-making, and interpersonal and
intergroup relations.
Join us in
Emotions have also been studied as physicological
Barcelona, processes, and have contributed to elucidating the
Spain brain mechanisms that underlie cognition and behav-
July 12-15, ior. Scholars have recently begun to explore the role
2006 of emotion in political life, including its impact on the
International Society of Political Psychology's nature of the candidate appraisal process, the strategic
Twenty-Ninth Annual Scientific Meeting: use of emotions by campaigns, and the role of discrete
"The Political Psychology of Liberation, emotions in the formation of policy attitudes.
the Political Psychology of Oppression"
The goal of this special issue is to further explore the
For more information on the meeting, hotel options, causes and consequences of emotional processes in the
and to register, visit: http://ispp.org/meet.html
political realm, and to provide a selective integration
of work on the topic. Political Psychology is therefore
And mark your calendars now to join us for ISPP's inviting and soliciting manuscripts for a special issue
thirtieth annual scientific meeting on Emotion in Politics. Submissions, irrespective of
subfield, should adopt a political psychological ap-
July 4-7 July 2007 in proach. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by a
minimum of three experts in the field. Acceptance of
Portland, Oregon, USA all papers is conditional on satisfactory reviews.

“Political Psychology: All manuscripts should be submitted to the editors fol-

Then, Now, and Hereafter” lowing the submission instructions for regular manu-
scripts. (See http://www.sunysb.edu/polsci/polpsych/
Guidelines.html.) Authors should note that the submis-
Preliminary information available at:
sion is intended for consideration in the special issue.
http://ispp.org/meet.html The deadline for submission is October 31, 2006. A
panel at the 2007 meeting of the ISPP in Portland will
"We warmly welcome ideas and proposals, so if be based on the forthcoming special issue.
you have any suggestion please let us know."
—Martin Rosema and Jamie Druckman,
Program Chairs

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THE LATIN-AMERICAN will foster a dialogue with the international audience,

SUMMER INSTITUTE inviting researchers and lecturers from North America
IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY and Europe.
(LASIPP)
In the beginning of 2007, the LASSIP hopes to wel-
The Latin-American Summer Institute in Political come about 40 participants, both graduate students
Psychology will start in the beginning of 2007 at the interested in political psychology and practioners in the
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) which is field. The program will be organized through modules.
one of the best public universities of Brazil with several Modules consist of lectures, discussions groups, and
internationally recognized graduate programs. The first research groups. The sessions of the LASIPP will be
step towards the creation of the LASIPP was taken by held by the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences
Dr. Maritza Montero, the present president of ISPP, on and the participants will be accommodated in student
the occasion of her visit to the Centre of Political Psy- flats close to the UFMG campus. At the conclusion of
chology of the UFMG in April 2006. The now outgoing the program, the participants will receive a certificate
president of the university, Dra. Ana Lúcia Almeida indicating that they have completed coursework in
Gazzola, has strongly supported the initiative. This past Political Psychology on the graduate level.
July, in Toronto, the Governing Council of the ISPP ap-
proved the creation of the LASSIP and will co-sponsor The LASIPP will be directed by Dr. Cornelis Jo-
its functioning, extending an annual scholarship of five hannes van Stralen, professor of Social Psychology
hundred US dollars and a student membership to each at the UFMG, director of the Graduate Program in
successful participant and facilitating liaisons with the Psychology of the UFMG, and present president of
Summer Institutes in Europe and the United States. the Brazilian Association of Political Psychology,
The Academic Coordination for Higher Education and by Dr. Marco Aurelio Prado, professor of Social
(CAPES) of the Ministry of Education and the Minas Psychology at the UFMG, director of the Department
Gerais Foundation for Research Support (FAPEMIG) of Psychology of the UFMG, present director of the
have been contacted to obtain additional funds. In all Centre of Political Psychology, and one of the editors
probability the LASIPP will also be underwritten by of the Revista de Psicologia Política. Dr. Leonardo
the National Council for Scientific and Technological Avritzer, professor of the Political Science Department
Development (CNPq) and other sponsors of research and member of the CAPES Committee of Political Sci-
and higher education. ence, is also collaborating with the project. Updated
information and announcements will be distributed by
The LASIPP meets the strong need for graduate train- May 2006. Visit the ISPP website (http://ispp.org/sipp.
ing in political psychology in Latin America, up till html) for updates. Provisional contact: colpospsi@
now difficult to accomplish since a small group of fafich.ufmg.br
core practioners and academics is scattered across
Latin America and few students have opportunity to
attend Summer Institutes in North America or Europe.
The Institute will provide an intensive three-week
training program focused on core theoretical and
methodological topics in the field as well as on is-
sues of special relevance for Latin America. In doing
so, it intends to become a new space for developing
insights and emancipatory ideas for politics in the
region. At the same time, the LASIPP recognizes that
while dealing with Latin-American issues, it will be
necessary to grasp the world’s complexity. For this, it

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PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION well as quantitative). Topics include:

Catastrophe, Fear and Fascination: • the psychological functions of catastrophe and its
On the Political Psychology of Emotions imagination
• the subjective consequences and impact of the
25th Workshop-Conference Political Psychology cultural imagery of catastrophe,
University of Crete, Rethymno/Crete
May 18th to 21st, 2006 • the ambivalence of knowledge as a strategy of
coping and as a ource of fear,
Submission Deadline Extended to March 30, 2006 • downfall and purification/lustration, for instance
in religious narrative,
The conference follows last year’s 24th Workshop-Con-
• the political functions of catastrophe and its soci-
ference on “Myth-History-Media: Historical, Political
etal construction,
and Mental Fomations” that marked the beginning of
a Greek-German cooperation in political psychology. • the longing for catastrophe in entertainment, the
role of catastrophe in the cultural fabrication of
Organizers: every-day consciousness,
• catastrophe as justification for scientific designs of
• University of Crete, Department of Psychology institutional and social prevention and control.
• Greek Association of Political Psychology Proceedings may be lectures, presentations and discus-
• Association of German Professional Psycholo- sions in Greek, German, French, and English. Proposals
gists (BDP), Division of Political Psychology for panels or intercultural study groups are welcome.
It will be possible, for example, to have parallel me-
• Editorial Board Political Psychology, University
dia analyses in German and Greek (or other) groups,
of Hamburg
with subsequent joint discussion and interpretation in
• Walter-Jacobsen-Society for Political Education English. Please submit proposals for individual pre-
and Political Psychology, Hamburg sentations, panels or study groups by March 30, 2006
(including an abstract, approx. 150 words). Please
Conference Fee: 80 Euro send German and English texts to Liselotte Hermes
Students: 40 Euro da Fonseca M.A. (da_fonseca@uni-hamburg.de),
“Catastrophe” indicates a decisive turn, a violent cut, Greek and French texts to Prof. Dr. Georgios Galanis
a collapse. Nevertheless, contemporary theories on (confpo2@psy.soc.uoc.gr) For more information see:
genesis of life, culture, or systems embrace catas- www.politische-psychologie.de or http://www.
trophe as an explanatory design. Movies and other soc.uoc.gr/psycho/English/conference.
cultural products redefine catastrophe as a medium
of purification and renewal. From their perspective,
NEUROPOLITICS LISTSERVE
the surviving or renewed life appears as a purified,
more truthful, more valuable form of existence. Thus,
catastrophe opens ambivalent concepts of condensed ISPP Member Darren Schreiber, J.D. (Assistant Pro-
fear and their reinterpretation. This holds true not fessor of Political Science, University of California
only for historical models like evolution theories, but at San Diego), invites Society members to join the
as well for fantasies of impending doom—planetary neuropolitics listserve. This is a moderated listserve
impacts, aliens, pandemic outbreaks of diseases. focusing on issues broadly related to the intersection
of neuroscience and political science. It will contain
The conference intends to analyze the social organiza- regular updates about new research and publications,
tion of anxiety and fear rooted in the media’s imagery
with links to articles and webpages. In addition to new
of catastrophe. Invited are theoretical accounts, in-
tercultural and historical comparative studies, media material, the listserve will contain occassional lists of
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Political Psychology: Key Readings
(continued from previous page) By
John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Editors
research articles and reviews relevant to a particular Taylor and Francis, 2004
substantive and/or methodological topic (e.g. fMRI
studies of emotion). The moderators also encourage Table of Contents:
questions and discussions about topics of theory, mod-
eling, methodology, measurement, interpretations, and Part I: Historical Introduction.
future directions. If Aristotle is right that humans are Reading 1. W.J. McGuire, The Poly-Psy
by nature political animals, then neuroscience stands Relationship: Three Phases of a Long Affair
to gain substantially through the study of human
decision making in political contexts. And, political Part II: Personality and Politics.
science should do well to leverage the methods and A. Authoritarianism and Mass Psychology.
insights into cognition and affect that are emerging in Reading 2. R. Brown. The Authoritarian
neuroscience. Schreiber’s hope is that together these Personality and the Organization of Atti-
fields can provide richer understandings of humans in tudes.
the political context. Reading 3. R.M. Doty, B.E. Peterson, and
D.G. Winter, Threat and Authoritarianism in
The home page for the listserve: http:// dss.ucsd.edu/ the United States: 1978-1987.
mailman/listinfo/neuropolitics. This is a low bandwidth Reading 4. B. Altemeyer. The Other
list, but the frequency of updates will be improved this “Authoritarian Personality.”
year. You can see the archive of previous posts at: B. Political Elites and Leadership.
http://dss.ucsd.edu/pipermail/neuropolitics. Reading 5:Greenstein, Can Personality and
Politics be Studied Systematically?
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS Reading 6: D.G. Winter, Leader Appeal,
Leader Performance, and the Motive Pro-
“Historical and Legal Remarks on Cultural files of Leaders and Followers: A Study of
Diversity and Higher Education in Brazil in the American Presidents and Elections.
Context of the School System,”
By Part III: Mass Media and Candidate Perception.
Roseli Fischmann Reading 7. S. Iyengar, M.D. Peters, D.R.
Higher Education Policy (2005) 18, 375-395 Kinder. Experimental Demonstrations of
the “Not-So-Minimal” Consequences of
The debate about intercultural dialogue and intercul- Television News Programs.
tural learning in Brazil must first consider the excluded Reading 8. J.A. Krosnick, D.R. Kinder.
‘Brazils’. Indeed Brazil has been labeled a ‘racial Altering the Foundations of support for the
democracy’, although the inequality is at one of the president through priming.
highest levels in the world. This article proposes the Reading 9. G.E. Marcus and M.B. MacK-
analysis of the role of education, particularly higher uen. Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote:
education, in the process of social construction of in- The Emotional Underpinnings of Learn-
equality, and its relations with cultural diversity. To that ing and Involvement During Presidential
aim one must reflect on at least four different sources of Campaigns.
cultural diversity: the situation of indigenous peoples;
the situation of African descendents; the particularities Part IV: Ideology and Public Opinion.
of immigration to Brazil; and the singularities of the A. Does Ideology Exist?
religious situation in Brazil. Reading 10. P.E. Converse. The Nature of
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of Political Terrorism. B. Protest and Revo-
Belief Systems in Mass Publics. lution. Reading 23. H. Eckstein. Theoreti-
Reading 11. P. Johnston Conover and S. cal Approaches to Explaining Collective
Feldman. The Origins and Meaning of Lib- Political Violence. Reading 24. B. Simon,
eral-Conservative Self-Identification. B. Klandermans. Politicized Collective
B. Cognitive Style and Ideological Func- Identity.
tioning. Appendix. C.H. Jordan, M.P. Zanna. How
Reading 12. R.E. Lane, The Fear of Equal- to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychol-
ity. ogy.
Reading 13. P.E. Tetlock, Cognitive Style
and Political Belief Systems in the British Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the
House of Commons. Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe
By
Part V. Challenges of Decision-Making. Pearl Oliner
Reading 14. G.A. Quattrone, A. Tversky. Yale University Press, 2005
Contrasting Rational and Psychological
Analyses of Political Choice. Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of outsiders
Reading 15. R. Jervis. The Drunkard’s or does it reserve generous behaviors for co-religionists
Search. only? Are the very religious more likely to be altruistic
toward outsiders than the non-religious? Drawing on
Part VI. Prejudice, Diversity, and Social Contact. interviews with more than 500 respondents, all liv-
A. Theories of Intergroup Relations in ing in Nazi-occupied Europe. including rescuers and
Society. nonrescuers of Jews, and based on qualitative and
Reading 16. H. Tajfel, J.C. Turner . The quantitative analysis, Oliner compares the values and
Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behav- attitudes of the very religious, irreligious and mod-
ior. Reading 17. J.T. Jost, M.R. Banaji. The erately religious, Protestants and Catholics, as they
Role of Stereotyping in System-Justification related to decisions regarding rescue and nonrescue.
and the Production of False Consciousness. Selected and detailed case studies, although primarily
Reading 18. J. Sidanius and F. Pratto. Social chosen to illustrate significant findings, also provide
Dominance Theory: A New Synthesis. dramatic insights into character and context. While
B. The Enduring Problem of Racism. focusing on a given historical period, the book is
Reading 19. L. Bobo., Group Conflict, intended to address cultural values and attitudes of
Prejudice and the Paradox of Contemporary potential importance in addressing outgroup altruism
Racial Attitudes. generally. So as to make the book accessible to all
Reading 20. D.O. Sears, C. van Laar, M. readers interested in the above issues, statistical data
Carrillo, and R. Kosterman. Is it Really are reserved for the Appendix.
Racism? The Origins of White Americans’
Opposition to Race-targeted Policies. Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and
Secret Operations
Part VII. Conflict, Violence, and Political By
Transformation. Richard C. S. Trahair
A. The Social Psychology of Wrongdoing Greenwood Press, October 2004
and Harm.
Reading 21. J. M. Darley, Social Organiza- This work is intended to encourage scholars to write
tion for the Production of Evil. reliable histories of a field wrought, necessarily, with
Reading 22. M. Crenshaw. The Psychology
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taken us further, and deeper, into the dark and vulner-
lies, sophisticated deception, censored information, the able collective mind of ethnic, religious, cultural and
seamy side of war and diplomacy, and seedy adventur- national group conflict. Through his eyes and words,
ism. Over 300 entries summarize hazards of espionage we find ourselves looking into and making contact
and secret operations, the double-cross, betrayal, de- with the universal elements present in humanity and in
ception and cunning in subterranean events during the ourselves, which converge in producing the conditions
Cold War, when every country spied on its enemies and for great human tragedies. No one understands nor
friends in government, the military and industry. writes about large group terror and violence in a more
compassionate and profoundly instructive way.
Among the dominant themes that were allowed to be — as described by Professor Michael A. Diamond,
made more or less public were affairs, assassinations Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs,
disasters, defections, hoaxes, honey traps, scandals, University of Missouri-Columbia
and spy exchanges. Most occupations were affected by
espionage during the Cold War. Accompanying each Diversity in the Power Elite: How it Happened,
entry are sources for further research, and the work Why it Matters (Second edition)
classifies the main topics of Cold War espionage, and By
provides a lengthy glossary of terms, a full index, and Richard L. Zweigenhaft and
a chronology of Cold War espionage relating to the G. William Domhoff, editors
period 1917-2001. Rowman & Littlefield, June 2006

The entries were chosen to reflect the broad range This second edition looks systematically at the extent
of actual spying activities and some in sophisticated to which Jews, women, African Americans, Latinos,
British and American literature, to outline the human Asians, gay men, and lesbians have entered the higher
characteristics of spies from over 35 countries, and to circles of power that constituted what sociologist C.
examine the psycho-dynamics of espionage with spe- Wright Mills called “the power elite.” Using a com-
cial emphasis on the biography of spies, secret agents bination of academic research and telling anecdotes,
and spymasters, their dissociative tendencies, and the book examines the backgrounds and careers of
their use of defensive norms such as “need to know” such well-known members of the power elite as At-
and “compartmentalization” to advance and preserve torney General Alberto Gonzales, Secretary of State
espionage as an individual activity, a special career, and Condeleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin
an institution to uphold the national interest. Powell, and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly
Fiorina to explain why and how the power elite has
diversified and the effect this diversification has had on
Killing in the Name of Identity:
A Study of Bloody Conflicts the way power works in the United States. In the eight
By years since the first edition was published, a number of
Vamik D. Volkan African American men and a number of white women
Charlottesville: Pitchstone Publishing, 2006 have become CEOs of Fortune-level corporations.
George W. Bush has named many women and men
“Why do they hate us so?” Vamik Volkan has the most of color to his presidential cabinets, and a number of
compelling, humane, and universal response to the rid- men of color have made it to the highest levels of the
dle of our time. In this extraordinary and timely book, military. Every chapter has been updated, with infor-
Volkan explains better than anyone the relationship mation about these new additions to the power elite
between large group identities and massive traumas and with new findings on issues related to the focus
with current events and ongoing conflicts from around of the chapter. Each chapter includes a section on the
the world, including the horrific attacks of 9/11. In his Supreme Court, and the concluding analysis in the final
newest book, Killing in the Name of Identity, Volkan has chapter has been updated.

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KUDOS TO MEMBERS

GRONICH WINS APSA PAPER AWARD HAVEL PRIZE FOR ZIMBARDO

RECOGNITION FOR
Congratulations to Lori Gronich, whose paper (pre- POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
sented at the 2005 APSA meetings), “The Cognitive
Miser Theory of Decision-making and U.S. Responses Professor Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. (Emeritus,
to Nuclear Threats and Terrorist Attacks,” has been Psychology Department, Stanford University) received
selected for the “Best Faculty Paper Award” by the the The Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation Vision
American Political Science Association’s Foreign 97 Award for the year 2005. He accepted the award in
Policy Section. The award will be presented at the 2006 person in Prague, Czech Republic, from the hands of
APSA meeting in Philadelphia. Gronich is Visiting Re- the former president of Czech Republic and his wife
search Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Center for Peace in autumn 2005.
and Security Studies at the Edmund Walsh School of
Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Vaclav Havel is recognized by many as a “philospher
king” of his time and generally known as a political
dissident who became a leader of Velvet Revolution
and then the democratically-elected president of his
BURACK WINS GRADIVA AWARD country.
IN HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND
LITERARY ANALYSIS The prize was awarded for Zimbardo’s “efforts to
enhance the human condition by countering evil, ig-
ISPP member Cynthia Burack received the 2005 Grad- norance, and shyness through research, teaching, and
iva Award in Historical, Cultural and Literary Analysis social action.” Zimbardo served as President of the
from The National Association for the Advancement of American Psychological Association (APA) and the
Psychoanalysis for her work, Healing Identities: Black Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents
Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups (Cornell (CSSP).
University Press, 2004). Dr. Burack is a professor in
the Department of Women’s Studies at the Ohio State The foundation Vision 97, established by Czech ex-
University. The following is an abstract of the book: president Havel and his wife, Dagmar, has been annu-
ally awarding the prize since 1999 to “an individual
Group identifications famously pose the problem of whose work has made a major contribution to broad-
destructive rhetoric and action against others. The ening human horizons, drawing attention to lesser
author brings together the theory work of women of known phenomena and contexts, integrating science
color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the into the general culture and promoting human views of
effects of group collaborations for social justice and the world.” Past winners include: Austrian-born U.S.
progressive politics. What can black feminist thought neurosurgeon Karl Pribram; Economist and Secretary
teach scholars and democratic citizens about groups? of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich; Italian writer
This volume shows how the rhetoric of black feminism Umberto Eco; Czech philosopher; and German-born
models reparative, rather than destructive, forms of U.S. computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.
group dialogue and action. Although it may be impos-
sible to eliminate group identifications that provide
much of the impetus for bias and violence, Burack
argues that we can encourage more progressive forms
of leadership, solidarity, and coalition politics.

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KUDOS TO MEMBERS PERSPECTIVES

FALK PUBLISHES BOOKS, WINS AWARDS Note from the Editor: With the following article submitted
for this issue, ISPPNews launches a series about Perspec-
Avner Falk’s book, Fratricide in the Holy Land: A tives on Political Psychology. In this column, we seek to
publish overviews of political psychology programs and
Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Uni- associations around the world. In addition, we are inter-
versity of Wisconsin Press), has won the Outstanding ested in submissions about undergraduate and graduate
Academic Title award from the American Library programs (majors, minors, certificates, etc.) in political
Association’s Choice magazine. His book Napoleon psychology in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and
Bonaparte: A Psychobiography will be published by other areas of the world. Especially if you head one of
these programs or are a member of a regional- or coun-
Pitchstone Publishing this year. In addition, Avner’s try-specific professional association focused on political
article on collective psychological processes in anti- psychology, please consider sending a submission.
Semitism will be published in the Spring issue of Jewish
Political Science Review. That article is the basis of a POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN POLAND
book he is currently writing.
Polish political psychology is only 20 years old. The
GREENHILL OP-ED in NEW YORK TIMES first studies in the field emerged around 1980 from sev-
eral researchers’ interest in political conflicts between
On February 17, The New York Times published an communists and democratic oppositionists. A pioneer-
op-ed piece by ISPP Member Kelly M. Greenhill. The ing analysis was conducted by Janusz Reykowski,
article, “Don’t Dumb Down the Army,” touched upon who also created the first research center of political
several issues, including the psychological damage psychology at The Polish Academy of Sciences in
that prolonged combat can impose on members of the Warsaw. Political psychology has since become the
military. Dr. Greenhill is an Assistant Professor of Gov- subject of academic lectures and studies at each Pol-
ernment at Wesleyan University and Research Fellow ish university.
at Harvard University’s Department of Government.
The main interests of Polish researchers include po-
VOLKAN NOMINATED FOR litical conflicts and political transformation, political
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE preferences and their determinants, political com-
munication and marketing, ethnic/national prejudice,
Vamik D. Volkan, M. D., a founder and former and gender in politics. Some academic centers now
president of ISPP, has been nominated for the 2006 organize remarkable scientific meetings (including the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work that illuminates the annual ISPP conference and ISPP summer school).
theoretical and applies it on the ground by examin-
ing conflicts between opposing groups, carrying out During the last three years, a cycle of yearly confer-
projects in various troubled spots in the world for ences was organized by the political department of the
27 years, and developing psychopolitical theories Warsaw School of Social Psychology: in 2003, Democ-
arising from his fieldwork and observations. Vol- racy: Psychosocial Advantages and Disadvantages,
kan was previously nominated for the 2005 Prize. in 2004, The Psychosocial Problems of European
Integration, and in 2005, Political Conflicts: Sources,
In addition, Dr. Volkan will be Fulbright-Sigmund- Symptoms, Consequences and Solutions. Between 60
Freud-Privatstiftung Visiting Scholar in Vienna, and 80 participants from major Polish academic cen-
Austria during the “Year of Sigmund Freud.” On May ters took part in these meetings, each of which lasted
13, 2006, he will bring together psychoanalysts, dip- several days.
lomats, newspaperpersons, and others at 19 Bergasse,
Freud’s home (now a museum), for a discussion of —Submitted by Urszula Jakubowska
world affairs from a psychopolitical point of view as Warsaw School of Social Psychology
a part of celebrating Freud’s 150th birthday (May 6). Poland

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