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All human beings have biases — lots of them. If we’re going to make good strategic decisions, we have to be aware of what those biases are and how they might affect our choices.
Is Trump’s base locked into a cult of personality? Democrats and liberals need to be prepared for the worst.
In political psychology, rationalization has three meanings. Here’s what they are and why they matter.
How do voters decide? Political psychologists have identified four basic decision strategies that most voters use. Campaigns should pay attention to their findings, because it turns out there is such a thing as too much information.
First Person Politics presents four new free-to-watch webinars covering the basics of political psychology, political personalities, political messaging, and the political applications of social and situational influence techniques.
Confirmation bias makes people of all political stripes see what they want to see. So why do liberals get it right more often than conservatives? The psychological antecedents of liberalism protect liberals from error over the long run, but may be keeping them from facing some uncomfortable truths about human psychology.
How should political strategists respond to the fact that more than half of our political orientation is hard-wired into our biology? Here are our top four strategic recommendations.
Earlier this week, we discussed the many reasons why politicos struggle with psychology. Since turnabout is fair play, we though we’d identify the most common reasons psychologists to struggle with politics. biases and tendencies Theory over practice. Like nearly all scientists, psychologists love a good theory that has enormous explanatory […]
It’s not at all unusual for political pros to struggle with a psychological approach to politics. Here are some of the most common biases, misconceptions, and objections that keep political strategists and analysts from benefiting from a psychological perspective.
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican Brain, has a new article in Mother Jones based on his earlier research into motivated reasoning in politics. Thank heavens Mooney wrote the book on this subject, because if he hadn’t done it, we would have had to. Mooney is a journalist who sees […]