Political judgment beyond paralysis and heroism

A Model of Political Judgment

This paper advances Kim, Taber, and Lodge's work (2010). It is shown here that the psychological model of political judgment named John Q. Public (Kim, Taber, and Lodge 2010) is consistent with a set of well-known empirical regularities repeatedly found in electoral and psychological researches, that the model in general implies motivated reasoning discounting contradictory information to the p...

Facial Politics : Political judgment based on looks

Pollution and purity in moral and political judgment

The emotion of disgust is evoked by substances such as urine, vomit, blood, and feces, but—as a growing body of work demonstrates—it also plays a significant role in our moral, social, and political attitudes. Despite this wealth of recent research, the reason for the connection between disgust and these attitudes remains unclear. We review the research linking disgust to moral, social, and pol...

Heroism, Suffering, and Change

Emotional Processing and Political Judgment: Toward Integrating Political Psychology and Decision Neuroscience

Emotional processing and political judgment 2 CONTENTS 1. In tro du ctio n 2. T heo ry a. The weight of traditional dichotomies b. The meanings of cognition and emotion i. Cognition ii. Emotion c. The centrality of the social d. Recurrent multilevel appraisal: a proposal for emotional processing in decision making 3. Met ho d a. The signal relationship: neural activity and the BOLD response b. ...