The psychology of democracy is a useful text for readers from a variety of disciplines lay persons undergraduate students and psychologists and political scientists would all find the book a useful and informative study of democracy psyccritiques. 10the psychology of democracy includes the changes in thinking social skills and action needed to achieve the psychological citizen who is capable of fully participating in and sustain ing actualized democracy moghaddam 2008c. The psychology of democracy based on the book the psychology of democracy published by the american psychological association press 2016 fathali m moghaddam j ohn adams 1735 1826 second president of the united states is quoted as saying there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide ketchum nd. The social psychology of democracy troubling questions about why people support tyranny posted feb 11 2017