POSC340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cognitive Dissonance, Baby Boomers
22 Dec 2016
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Emotional constraints almost always win : people make judgments based on emotions and passions not logic or reason. Beliefs can change: but usually just exclude inconvenient facts. Partisan sentiment often wins: make ourselves feel better about the outcome. Affective intelligence theory: dispositional system (hope, surveillance (anxiety) Affects: info processing, participation, interest, candidate evaluations. People are aversive to information they don"t like. People selectively tune out what they don"t want to hear. Increase in political polarization: but difference is necessary in democracy and fosters. An example: wmds in iraq 2003 tolerance to a degree. Conservative americans presented with aversive info more confident that iraq had wmds. Exposure to like-minded views leads to activism: polarization and activism go hand in hand. 1) partisan polarization: grounded in cognitive dissonance. 3) attentive publics: politically interested utilize internet to become more knowledgeable. Who is most likely to engage in s. e.
