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Self-Injurious Behavior As A Window To The Soul: Support For A Will To Power?, Ibpp Editor Jun 2001

Self-Injurious Behavior As A Window To The Soul: Support For A Will To Power?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a rationale for self-injurious behavior in the political world


Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor Apr 2000

Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the concept of political control and public health in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.


Trends. Syria, Lebanon, And Israel: Is There A Psychological Difference Between The Abusive And The Abused?, Ibpp Editor Mar 2000

Trends. Syria, Lebanon, And Israel: Is There A Psychological Difference Between The Abusive And The Abused?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the psychological difference between abusers and the abused in the context of relations between Israel and Syria as well as Indonesia and East Timor. The concept of control is also discussed.


On Political Predictability And Control: A Contribution From Rehabilitation Psychology, Ibpp Editor Sep 1999

On Political Predictability And Control: A Contribution From Rehabilitation Psychology, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article continues the series on research reported at the 1999 American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, Boston, MA, August 24, 1999. The topic this week concerns perspectives on predictability and control from the field of rehabilitation psychology and implications of these perspectives for political psychology.


Can One Control People Who Can't Control Themselves? A Personnel Security Challenge, Ibpp Editor Jul 1999

Can One Control People Who Can't Control Themselves? A Personnel Security Challenge, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies a psychological phenomenon that is often ignored, discounted, and/or mismanaged within the personnel security programs of government and business.


Self-Harm As Control Of The Other: A Clinical-Political Nexus, Ibpp Editor Oct 1998

Self-Harm As Control Of The Other: A Clinical-Political Nexus, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides explanations for a seemingly paradoxical behavior--harming of the self when one seems to wish not to be harmed. The explanation is illustrated by clinical and by political example.


Belief Systems Of Political Control: A Primer For Authoritarian And Totalitarian Regimes, Ibpp Editor Nov 1997

Belief Systems Of Political Control: A Primer For Authoritarian And Totalitarian Regimes, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article employs common psychological constructs to describe belief systems concerning political control.


Ernesto Guevara De La Serna, Che Guevara, And The Power Of "As If", Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Ernesto Guevara De La Serna, Che Guevara, And The Power Of "As If", Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the political benefits of acting as if a reality that is but fantasy were reality.


Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor Oct 1997

Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the postmodern approaches to basic tenets of science which often deconstruct basic concepts such as cause and effect, prediction, empirical validation, and the like.


Political Assassinations: Primary Prevention In Representative Democracies, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Political Assassinations: Primary Prevention In Representative Democracies, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a social psychological approach to decreasing the probability of some political assassinations


A Moral Dilemma For The Political Psychologist: Decreasing Criminal Violence As Symptom, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

A Moral Dilemma For The Political Psychologist: Decreasing Criminal Violence As Symptom, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes two approaches to decreasing criminal violence and the moral dilemma in choosing between them.


Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Getting Away With Murder: The Mass Media's Role In Staging Crime, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a problem created by the mass media and confronted by criminal-investigative analysts at crime scenes at which murder seems to have been perpetrated.


Some Truth About Truth Commissions Ii, Ibpp Editor Sep 1997

Some Truth About Truth Commissions Ii, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

In "Some Truth about Truth Commissions," 1(12), 1-3, IBPP described some of the main purposes and consequences of political truth commissions. In the present article, IBPP describes some of the problems inherent in discharging one potential responsibility of such commissions--managing the disposition of secret files developed by a previous government on the citizens that government allegedly represented.


Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The last installment of this article posits proto-principles of propaganda. (See IBPP Vol. 1, No. 17 and Vol. 2, No.1 for the first two installments.)


To Stay Or To Go: Social Identity And Self-Categorization Theories, Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

To Stay Or To Go: Social Identity And Self-Categorization Theories, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some psychological factors affecting whether members remain in a cult or leave.


Entering The Cult: The Role Of Personality And Self-Peer Agreement, Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Entering The Cult: The Role Of Personality And Self-Peer Agreement, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper describes a psychological factor which may make it more likely that people voluntarily enter cults. The same factor may be used by cult solicitors and gate keepers to create "voluntary entry."


Controlling Control In The Cult: Big Brother, Little Brothers, And "Turning In", Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Controlling Control In The Cult: Big Brother, Little Brothers, And "Turning In", Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

A previous article (IBPP, Vol. 1, No. 9, "The Psychology of Controlling Control") described the psychological challenges that must be surmounted by political leaders desiring to control others. The present article describes psychological phenomena w


Hardball Politics, The Chinese Connection, And The Psychology Of Linkage: Some Implications Of, Ibpp Editor Apr 1997

Hardball Politics, The Chinese Connection, And The Psychology Of Linkage: Some Implications Of, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP has posited some effects of globalization on individual psychologies ("Political Psychology and Globalization" (Vol. 1, No. 13)) and political tactics and structures ("Psychopolitical Effects of Globalization on Power: When Weakness Becomes Strength" (Vol. 1, No. 14.)) This article describes how new information technologies and old principles of social psychology may be combined in an era of globalization for effective information warfare during political conflict.


Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part I), Ibpp Editor Mar 1997

Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part I), Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents a number of conceptual problems with assuming that political propaganda is an effective tool in seeking political power.


Psychopolitical Effects Of Globalization On Power: When Weakness Becomes Strength, Ibpp Editor Feb 1997

Psychopolitical Effects Of Globalization On Power: When Weakness Becomes Strength, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses three common techniques to obtain power in the sphere of international affairs.


Some Truth About Truth Commissions, Ibpp Editor Feb 1997

Some Truth About Truth Commissions, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the veracity of Truth Commissions.


The Psychology Of Controlling Control, Ibpp Editor Jan 1997

The Psychology Of Controlling Control, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the concept and techniques of control (power) in the political world.