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Five ways of thinking about thinking
From: Too Dumb for Democracy?
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Chapter Seven explores how our bodies, our psychology, our milieu, and our institutions happen to lead us down the path to bad decisions. Building a general model of political decision-making that incorporates all of these moving parts is difficult because there are so many variables and humans are tricky animals to study. But, luckily for us, psychologist sand political scientists have developed models of cognition that, when read alongside one another, form a powerful entity that we can use to better understand why we make bad — and good — political decisions. This chapter explores five models of political decision making by imagines each model as a person (or two) at a dinner party each of whom represents a psychological model: motivated reasoning (Norman), the elaboration likelihood model (Sarah and Paul), automaticity (Stephen), social intuitionism (Stella), and system justification (Shauna).
