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Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality (Cambridge Studies in Political Psychology and Public Opinion)

by Arthur Lupia

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Publisher Comments:

Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars from across the social sciences use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions about how people see and process information and provide new explanations of how basic human needs, the environment, and past experiences combine to affect human choices.

Synopsis:

Many social scientists want to explain why people do what they do. A barrier to constructing such explanations used to be a lack of information on the relationship between cognition and choice. Now, recent advances in cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology have clarified this relationship. In Elements of Reason, scholars use these advances to uncover the cognitive foundations of social decision making. They answer tough questions about how people see and process information and provide new explanations of how basic human needs affect human choices.

Synopsis:

Advances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.
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Table of Contents

1. Beyond rationality: reason and the study of politics Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins and Samuel L. Popkin; Part I. External Elements of Reason: 2. Shared mental models: ideologies and institutions Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North; 3. The institutional foundations of political competence: how citizens learn what they need to know Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins; 4. Taking sides: a fixed choice theory of political reasoning Paul Sniderman; 5. How people reason about ethics Norman Frohlich and Joe Oppenheimer; 6. Who says what? Source credibility as a mediator of campaign advertising Shanto Iyengar and Nicholas A. Valentino; 7. Affect as information: the role of public mood in political reasoning Wendy M. Rahn; Part II. Internal Elements of Reason: 8. Reconsidering the rational public: cognition, heuristics, and mass opinion James H. Kuklinski and Paul J. Quirk; 9. Three steps toward a theory of motivated political reasoning Milton Lodge and Charles Taber; 10. Knowledge, trust, and international reasoning Samuel L. Popkin and Michael A. Dimock; 11. Coping with tradeoffs: psychological constraints and political implications Philip E. Tetlock; 12. Backstage cognition in reason and choice Mark Turner; 13. Constructing a theory of reasoning: choice, constraints, and context Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins and Samuel L. Popkin.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521653329
Subtitle:
Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality
Editor:
Lupia, Arthur
Editor:
Lupia, Arthur
Editor:
McCubbins, Mathew D.
Editor:
Popkin, Samuel L.
Author:
Kuklinski, James H.
Author:
McCubbins, Mathew D.
Author:
Lupia, Arthur
Author:
Chong, Dennis
Author:
Popkin, Samuel L.
Editor:
McCubbins, Mathew D.
Editor:
Popkin, Samuel L.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Location:
Cambridge
Subject:
General
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Reasoning
Subject:
Political psychology
Subject:
Political sociology
Subject:
Reasoning (psychology)
Subject:
Social choice
Subject:
Raisonnement
Subject:
Psychologie politique
Subject:
Choix collectif
Subject:
Sociologie politique
Subject:
General Political Science
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Political Psychology and Public Opinion
Series Volume:
no. 34 =
Publication Date:
October 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
344
Dimensions:
9.31x6.27x.95 in. 1.24 lbs.
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