Human Behavior and Public Policy: A Political Psychology examines knowledge about human behavior and its application to public policy analysis. It shows that the findings of psychological research provide information on how to better understand social problems and formulate and implement policies for the solution of such problems.
Organized into nine chapters, the book first discusses how psychology can be used to shape society into a better home and then presents three models for political psychology. The next chapters deal with intellectual capacities, educability, and prejudice and discrimination in different groups of people. The book also explores violence and intergroup conflict resolutions and concludes with a proposal for a research design that serves as an example of political-psychological planning.
Academic psychologists who teach interdisciplinary social sciences and courses concerned with public affairs will find this book invaluable.

• Front Cover 2
• Human Behavior and Public Policy: A Political Psychology 5
• Copyright page 6
• Table of Contents 7
• About the Author 8
• Preface 9
• Acknowledgments 15
• Chapter 1. Psychology's real-world relevance 17
  • SOME CALLS FOR A RELEVANT PSYCHOLOGY 23
  • THE NON-OBVIOUS RELEVANCE OF PURE RESEARCH 27
• Chapter 2. Applying psychology to public policy analysis: Three alternative models 33
  • THREE MODELS FOR POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 34
  • NOTES 58
• Chapter 3. The intellectual capacities of human groups 61
  • WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE AND HOW IS IT MEASURED? 65