情感与认同——政治心理学的孪生子

Emotion and Identity:the Twins of Political Psychology

政治的首要和基本问题是合法性问题,合法性意味着对现有政权的认同,权力本身即是一种情感。冷战结束后,包括美国在内的各国研究者,都非常重视认同问题,认同成为解释冲突和斗争的一个重要角度。情感构成认同的基础,政治情感是政治认同的基础,情感与认同在政治心理学中的应用表现为阶级认同中的情感动员和情感动员中的国家认同。

the chief and basic problem of politics is the problem of legitimacy, which means identifying with existing regime. Power itself is a kind of emotion. After the cold war, many countries including the United States attached great importance to identity problem. Therefore, identity became an important perspective of interpretation of conflict and war. Political feelings are the basis of political identity. Identity and emotion in the application of political psychology often show the class-identity in the mobilization of emotion and the national identity in the emotional mobilization.