What shapes political behavior more‎:‎ the situations in which individuals find themselves‎,‎ or the internal psychological makeup‎-‎-‎-beliefs‎,‎ values‎,‎ and so on‎-‎-‎-of those individuals‎?‎ This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today‎.‎ Political Psychology‎:‎ Situations‎,‎ Individuals‎,‎ and Cases‎,‎ 2nd edition‎,‎ provides a concise‎,‎ readable‎,‎ and conceptually organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question‎.‎ Using this situationism‎-‎-dispositionism framework‎-which roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychology‎-this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism‎,‎ obedience‎,‎ personality‎,‎ groupthink‎,‎ cognition‎,‎ affect‎,‎ emotion‎,‎ and neuroscience to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations‎.‎ The new edition includes a new chapter on the psychology of the media and communication‎.‎ Houghton has also updated the text to analyze recent political events such as the 2012 election‎,‎ and to include up‎-and‎-coming research in the areas of neuroscience‎,‎ behavioral economics‎,‎ and more‎.‎ Houghton‎'‎s clear and engaging examples directly challenge students to place themselves in both real and hypothetical situations which involve intense moral and political dilemmas‎.‎ This highly readable text will provide students with the conceptual foundation they need to make sense of the rapidly changing and increasingly important field of political psychology‎.‎