ABSTRACT
The social sciences cross paths all too infrequently. Cross-fertilization between the various disciplines usually occurs only at the level of basic theoretical frameworks or methodologies. Superficially, the interdisciplinary field of political psychology may appear to be yet another example of weak communication (between the field of psychology as the source discipline and political science as the receptor discipline). That is, the practitioners of political psychology are primarily political scientists who use the theories and methods of psychology to study phenomena of political relevance.
