This volume brings together some of the research on citizen decision making.

Prologue; 1. Political psychology and the study of citizens and politics James Kuklinski; Part I. Affect and Emotion: Section introduction James Kuklinski; 2. The role of affect in symbolic politics David O. Sears; 3. Emotions and politics: the dynamic functions of emotionality George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen; 4. Cognitive neuroscience, emotion, and leadership Roger D. Masters; 5. Commentary: emotion as virtue and vice Gerald L. Clore and Linda M. Isbell; Part II. Political Cognition: Section introduction James Kuklinski; 6. An experimental study of information search, memory, and decision making during a political campaign Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk; 7. Political accounts and attribution processes Kathleen M. McGraw; 8. The motivated construction of political judgments Charles S. Taber, Jill Glathar and Milton Lodge; 9. Commentary: on the dynamic and goal-oriented nature of (candidate) evaluations Sharon Shavitt and Michelle R. Nelson; Part III. Political Attitudes and Perceptions: Section introduction James Kuklinski; 10. Public opinion and democratic politics: the problem of nonattitudes and the social construction of political judgment Paul M. Sniderman, Phillip E. Tetlock and Laurel Elms; 11. Implications of a latitude-theory model of citizen attitudes for political campaigning, debate, and representation Gregory Andrade Diamond; 12. Where you stand depends on what you see: connections among values, perceptions of fact, and political prescriptions Jennifer L. Hochschild; 13. Commentary: the meaning of 'attitude' in representative democracies James H. Kuklinski and Jennifer Jerit; Part IV. Political Values: Section introduction James Kuklinski; 14. Social welfare attitudes and the humanitarian sensibility Stanley Feldman and Marco Steenbergen; 15. American individualism reconsidered Gregory B. Markus; 16. Political values judgments Laura Stoker; Commentary: the study of values Kenneth Rasinski; Commentary: the value of politics Melissa A. Orlie.