POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Plaintext, Fundamental Attribution Error
9 Jun 2012
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Choices made by politicians are based on such. Chirac vs sarkozy e. g. harper wanted canadians to be at one place (afghanistan) only. Chirac did not like the usa, so did everything to go against them. How to people take decisions and turn them into policy. The decisions you make when angry are different than when you"re happy. Dick cheney complete change of attitude after the events of 9/11. If you have stereotypes, you will look for evidence and deny the counterarguments. Cognitive consistency e. g. in ir, if you think threats always work, you will ignore situations when they don"t work. People gamble more to avoid losing, than to win. Analogical reasoning e. g. people comparing vietnam war with afghanistan war. We tend to compare the past with current events --> prevent repetition of mistakes. Everybody will agree on the same perception of the world.
