Rationalizing Voter

Informationen zum Autor Milton Lodge is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He is the author of three books and numerous research articles in political science and psychology, a Fulbright Research Scholar (Nepal), a Research Scholar at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext When citizens think about political leaders, groups and issues, their feelings bias how information is encoded, evaluated and acted upon. Zusammenfassung Lodge and Taber propose and empirically test motivated political reasoning that predicts that when citizens think about familiar political leaders! groups and issues! their prior feelings spontaneously bias how information is encoded! retrieved! evaluated and acted upon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Unconscious thinking on political judgment, reasoning, and behavior; 2. The John Q. Public model of political information processing; 3. Experimental tests of automatic hot cognition; 4. Implicit identifications in political information processing; 5. Affect transfer and the evaluation of political candidates; 6. Affective contagion and political thinking; 7. Motivated political reasoning; 8. A computational model of the citizen as motivated reasoner; 9. Affect, cognition, emotion: which way the causal arrow?

Product details

• Authors: Milton Lodge, Milton Taber Lodge, Charles S. Taber
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2013
• EAN: 9780521176149
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17614-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology; Cambridge Studies in Public Op; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political; Cambridge Studies in Public Op; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education