POLD50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Political Psychology, Rationality, Apple Pie
8 May 2016
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Lecture 14 politics and society in canada. Library tutorial session january 28th no tutorials this week. Why do you believe the things that you believe: rationality. Intuition and rationality: intuition feeling or sense, rationality how we are supposed to think, when we think or are asked why we believe something, we come up with answers. We rationalize these positions/come up with reasons: as human beings we are governed by automatic intuitive reaction. Lesson #1: we need to understand people in order to understand politics. Where your preferences come from and where they are formed. One of the ways in which elites influence us. You will pursue your objectives as efficiently as you know how. Try to get the most benefit out of your efforts: assume that people"s preference orders are transitive. If you prefer lemon pie to apple pie and apple pie to blueberry pie then you also prefer lemon pie to blueberry pie: example.
