EMOTIONS IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLOGICAL EFFECTS Cansu Parlak Abstract Emotions are one of the important factors affecting political preferences and behaviors. There are arguments that the individual determines their political behaviors and preferences with emotions or acts completely rationally. With the contributions of neuroscience, it has been determined that the schemas and priorities created by individuals are effective in their political attitudes. There are findings that racial prejudices, which are thought to be eliminated by rational thinking, especially with fMRI, remain. The contributions of neuroscience to the literature show that emotion and reason are not binary oppositions, on the contrary, they are two mental faculties that complement each other. Keywords: emotion, political behavior, neuropolitics, neuroscience, affection.