POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Janice Stein, Subjective Expected Utility, Robert Jervis
28 Jan 2018
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Janice gross stein (2012), psychological explanations of international decision making and. Collective behavior, in w. carlsnaes, t. risse, and b. simmons (eds. Further reading: robert jervis (1976), perception and misperception in international politics, princeton. University press: j. m. goldgeier and p. e. tetlock (2001), psychology and international relations. Theory, annual review of political science 4, pp. 67-92: marcus holmes (2013), the force of face-to-face diplomacy: mirror neurons and the. Psychology and foreign policy making: rational choice - cognition and prospect theory. Information processing: cognitive short-cuts: the (mis-)use of analogies, cognitive dissonance: discounting information, attribution: the fundamental attribution error > tendency to see what others did as an intentional act and what we did as something structurally constrained. Prospect theory: subjective expected utility: loss/risk aversion e. g. con it in ukraine (part of udssr) > buffer zone b/w europe and. Russia, but turned to the west: framing: reference points and risk taking. Implications for threats vs. promises in negotiations.
