1 Introduction -- 2 Blue brain, red brain: The biopsychology of political beliefs and behaviors -- 3 Behavioral epigenetics: The underpinnings of political psychology -- 4 How diversity in nature impacts political psychology -- 5 Psychology, politics and complex thought: A time for postformal thought in politics -- 6 How do cognitive styles influence political attitudes? A joint consideration of dual-process model and construal level theory -- 7 Understanding polarization through a cognitive lens -- 8 Postformal psychology: The new normal in times of exponential change -- 9 Political cognition: The unconscious mechanisms underlying political beliefs and actions -- 10 How psychological processes impact voter decision making -- 11 How belief in conspiracy theories addresses some basic human needs -- 12 Why is populism so robustly associated with conspiratorial thinking? Collective thinking and the meaning maintenance model -- 13 Pathways to social connection and civility in a time of political and social polarization -- 14 Voice and votes: Gender, power and politics -- 15 Political identity development in a changing world -- 16 Nonverbal cues in leadership -- 17 Inclusion of conservatives in science: Acknowledging liberal and conservative social cognition to improve public science attitudes -- 18 Can we deliberate? How motivated reasoning undermines Democratic deliberation and what we can do about it -- 19 American national identity: Issues of race, culture, social class, gender and politics affected by social change -- 20 "Authoritarian responses to social change: Psychological mechanisms underlying the election of Donald Trump -- 21 Psychological mechanisms underlying the populist threat to democracy -- 22 Trumped: Making sense of the "Narcissist-in-Chief" -- 23 Psychological reactions to "House of Cards": The role of transportation and identification -- 24 Political betrayal, political agency, and international politics -- 25 (De)humanization of Muslim immigrants: Newspaper discourse and public responses during the UK 2015 general election -- 26 Quantitative and qualitative methods of predicting geopolitical events -- 27 Control and counter-control in Brazilian public policies: Conjectures from a humanist-contextualist behaviorism.