Political psychology in the 1980s-90s centered on individual information-processing mechanisms

Evidence

The third historical period described by McGuire is the social cognition/political ideology era of the 1980s and 1990s. The influence of experimental social psychology was especially strong during these years, as several chapters in this book attest. Theoretical and methodological preoccupations focused on general mechanisms of information processing within the individual that had implications for political judgments and decisions, as covered in Sections IV and V. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 279

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political psychology’s interdisciplinarity persisted across three distinct research eras — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 303