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IN MODERN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE ECONOMIC CONCERNS FROM POLITICAL ONES. YET THE FIELD OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY HAS DEVELOPED RATHER INDEPENDENTLY FROM THE STUDY OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY. THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS WHETHER THERE ARE WAYS IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUALISTIC, HIGHLY RATIONALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS THAT DOMINATE OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM FEED BACK TO SHAPE AND LIMIT OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. IT ALSO ASKS WHETHER THESE ASSUMPTIONS LEAD US UNWITTINGLY TO ATTRIBUTE EXCESSIVE AUTONOMY TO THE ECONOMIC SPHERE AND TO FAIL TO INTEGRATE THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRIES REGARDING OUR POLITICAL LIFE. THE AUTHOR CONSIDERS THESE QUESTIONS AND APPLIES THEM TO ISSUES OF TAXATION, POVERTY, SOCIAL GENEROSITY, AND NUCLEAR WINTER.

The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is primed, and so on. Little attention is a paid to the unfolding of events over time, to social life as an ongoing process in which events are related in various ways as life unfolds. Originally published in 1984, Historical Social Psychology opens a space for theory and research in which temporal process is central. Contributors to this broad-ranging work provide a rich range of perspectives, from the theoretical to the methodological, from micro-sequence