Overview
- Provides a compelling, research-informed, account of the psychological aspects of the Brexit experience
- Explores Brexit’s psychological impact on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health
- Demonstrates how the events of Brexit have been shaped by psychological factors
- Reveals how cultural biases (such as sexism) shape the manner in which politicians are portrayed and perceived
- Appeals to general audiences, as well as policymakers and researchers in the fields of psychology, politics, and public health
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- mental health
- Political psychology
- Public Health
- Brexit
- psychological stress
- well-being
- social cohesion
- political populism
- group polarization
- groupthink
- false consensus
- optimism biases
- psychodrama
- cognitive dissonance
- social stereotypes
- echo-chamber reasoning
- causal attribution errors
- popular science
- popular psychology
- British Politics
About this book
This book discusses how reasoning biases and illusions of control propel – and pollute – the perspective of both Leavers and Remainers. It shows how social stereotypes and motivated irrationality help otherwise groundless beliefs thrive in everyday culture, leading to group polarisation and echo-chamber reasoning. It reveals the way cultural biases like sexism influence how Brexit politicians are portrayed and perceived. And it explores the psychological impact of Brexit – its effect on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health.
In this compelling new book, psychologist Brian Hughes examines what scientific psychology reveals about the dynamics of Brexit, what Brexit teaches us about ourselves, and what we can do to deal with its short-term impact and long-term fallout.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Brexit
Book Subtitle: From Psychodrama to Behavioural Science
Authors: Brian M. Hughes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29364-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29363-5Published: 15 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29364-2Published: 03 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 180
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, British Politics, Psychotherapy, Cognitive Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality