The Psychology of Media and Politics

George Comstock earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University. He currently is the S.I. Newhouse Professor at the School of Public Communication, Syracuse University in the Television-Radio-Film Department. He is the author of Television and the American Child and was the senior author of the original Television and Human Behavior.Professor Comstock is a social psychologist and expert on the social effects of mass media. He is former science advisor and senior research coordinator of U.S. Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior. Professor Comstock teaches classes insocial effects of television and communication research methods. Erica Scharrer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at University of Massachusetts and studies media content, opinions about media, and media influence.

The Psychology of Media and Politics
George Comstock and Erica Scharrer

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I
Early Knowledge

Chapter I – Conventional Wisdom
Chapter II – Necessary Corrections

Part II
Press and Public

Chapter III – The New Media
Chapter IV – The Goods
Chapter V – Heterogeneous Faces

Part III
The Collective Self

Chapter VI – Using the Media
Chapter VII – Beyond Politics

References
Epilogue
Author Index
Subject Index