POL SCI 120A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cherry Picking, Adhocracy, Cognitive Dissonance
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Head of national security orgs, any orgs. that are doing things that could e ect foreign policy. Junior players; interest groups, media, junior o cers of head depts, private sector corporations, the public. In uences: 1 national security 2 organizational -13669 (power and relevance) 3. Depending on if you are in army then you will view something di erently than someone in the air force. Major things: pollack reading **. (vietnam war) *cherry picked . trying to come up with evidence sadaam had weapons of mass destruction. 10/20 cognitive dissonance: something inside you that doesn"t feel right, try and do something to change that feeling o ce of special planning: cherry picking info and trying to back it up. When do beliefs change? insu cient external reward** experiment that proves this; survey with 1$ bill and 20, changed beliefs to lie p. 31 attribution theory: judge others by actions, judge ourselves by intentions.
