POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Twin, Twin Study, Daniel Kahneman
7 Feb 2013
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Different information presents the same choices and outcomes in different ways (e. g. , Information gets people to think about some issues rather than other issues. E. g. , cohen (1963, 13): the media may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. E. g. , lyengar and kinder (1987, 63): by calling attention to some matters while ignoring others, television news influences the standards by which governments, presidents, policies, and candidates for public office are judge. We wouldn"t know anything if media was gone. We"re predisposed on how we act to information. We have differences in information on how we react to that information. Idea of personality different types of people seem to remind you of other people you know. (ex. People with these personality traits align themselves with political parties.
