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The Political Psychology Of Deception Research Ii, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

A previous IBPP article (V. 2, No. 9, "The Political Psychology of Deception Research" described some of the complexities in assessing how psychological assessment instruments are vulnerable to deception--e.g., the purposeful "faking bad" of test takers. That article focused on some ethical Issues of deception research and the concept of the social transformation of knowledge that threatens reliability and validity of assessment instruments through time. The present article focuses on a methodological consideration in documenting the threat of deception to psychological assessment.

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

Trends. The Land Mines Treaty: A Strict Constructionist Approach, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the United States Government (USG) announcement that it will not sign the Land Mines Treaty because land mines are still needed to protect US security

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.

Trends. Mother Teresa And The War On Poverty, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses Mother Teresa's views on poverty.

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.

From Whence Evil? Shakespeare As Political Psychologist, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper identifies a passage from Shakespeare's Hamlet that is germane to the question of the source of political evil.

Intelligence And Counterintelligence Operations: The Role Of Implicit Social Influence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights psychological research on implicit social influence and advocates that this research can be a heuristic source of applications for intelligence and counterintelligence operations.

Trends. Why Princess Di?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses death, dying and Princess Diana.

The Philosophy Of Political Conflict: The Example Of Punishment, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article posits a basic philosophical substrate of inevitable political conflict as opposed to more common psychological ones.

The Abled, Disabled, And Enabled: Is Seeing The Difference A Learning Disability Or Merely A Crime?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies many of the Issues underlying the controversy over providing special accommodations for people who state that they have learning disabilities.

Trends. Bahtmen To The Rescue: A Psychology Of Altruism In Thailand, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author examines the Thai financial system billion dollar rescue in terms of altruism vs. egoism.

How Not To Prevent Oil Crises: Challenge For An Education President, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes several problematic approaches that are components of lay psychology.

Sexual Misconduct And Personnel Management, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper describes how organizations might best understand and employ the concept of sexual misconduct.

Globalization And Enmeshment: Implications For Foreign Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article posits that national strategies of self-harm may become more adaptive in a world of increasing globalization.

Trends. Cognitive Complexity, Moral Complexity, And Foreign Policy: Commonalities Between President Suharto And William Weld, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the

cognitive and moral complexities, and foreign policy commonalities between President Suharto and William Weld.

The Man Who Would Be King: Thoughts On The Death Of Saw Maung, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some common psychological pathways resulting in political leaders believing that they are more than they are.

Trends. The Timelessness Of Conspiracy Theories: Comments Of The Malaysian Prime Minister, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the allegations of conspiracy that can be discovered and identified throughout history.

World Government And Black Helicopters: Psychological Factors Affecting Support For The United Nations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some psychological factors--too often ignored in debates and policy development--affecting support for the United Nations.

Off-Balance Balance Theories: The Saga Of Hun Sen, Norodom Ranariddh, And Pol Pot, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes how psychological balance theories might be applied to generate hypotheses about political events in Cambodia since the Paris Accords of 1991.

Security, Lying, And The Strategic-Moral Calculus, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article elaborates on truth and falsehood as both developmental psychological and political phenomena.

Torture, Interrogation, And Daily Hassles: Good Thoughts And Bad Thoughts, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article elaborates on some psychological stress reduction research in a political psychological and moral context.

Trends. The Liberian Elections And Reflections On Political Love, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses political observations of survivors of wars, purges, massacres, and terror, survivors who have lost loved ones, all their worldly goods, even portions of their own bodies, minds, and spirits, often may be the biggest supporters of the perpetrators of evil.

Trends. Political Psychology In Space: Diagnostic Issues, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the nomenclature, standards, and criteria are most optimal to evaluate space station personnel.

The Political Psychology Of Virtual Reality: Scandinavian Trail Blazing, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies some research opportunities concerning the political psychology of virtual reality.

Attempting To Learn From History: Nato, Anti-Drug Policies, And Intelligence Assets, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some political psychological aspects of being allied with security organizations infiltrated by adversaries.

Cleavages Of Political Values Among Generations In Brazil, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article was written by Professor of Psychology Fabián Echegaray, Professor of Sociology Paulo Krischke, and Director of Institutional Ethics Aluir Toso. All three researchers are at the Universidad Federal de Santa Cantarina. They posit and provide supporting theory and data that values which are postmaterialist (emphasizing psychological well-being and self-actualization) as opposed to materialist (emphasizing materialistic goods) are more likely to be displayed by younger than older Brazilians and by those with higher than lower social class. Thus older, lower class Brazilians will be most materialist and younger, higher class Brazilians will be most postmaterialist. The paper was presented …

The "As Ifs" Of Political Psychology, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This paper describes different concepts of "as if" that are basic to political psychology for descriptive and inferential analysis.

The Past From The Present: Comments On The Social Construction Of Machiavellianism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents different meanings of the term Machiavellianism and posits a mechanism of social construction to explain these differences.

Theory And Practice In The Career Of Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Part I, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Political psychologists often contemplate the significance of their research--theoretical, empirical--for the practice of politics. Too often, seemingly valuable research is ignored, discounted, misperceived, and misapplied by political practitioners. Yet occasionally researchers practice politics as well--not just the politics of everyday life--but the formal politics of local, regional, national, and international entities. In the United States, Woodrow Wilson, Eugene McCarthy, and even Newt Gingrich come immediately to mind. What will be the interaction of research and practice when both are developed and implemented by the same individual? Dr. Ted Goertzel of Rutgers University has written the following article concerning another researcher-practitioner--Fernando …