Lakoff, George
Your Brain's Politics
The answers are profound. They have to do with how our minds and brains work. Political attitudes are the product of what cognitive scientists call Embodied Cognition — the grounding of abstract thought in everyday world experience. Clashing beliefs about how to run nations largely arise from conflicting beliefs about family life: conservatives endorse a strict father and liberals a nurturant parent model. So-called "middle" voters are not in the middle at all. They are morally biconceptual, divided between both models, and as a result highly susceptible to moral political persuasion.
In this brief introduction, Lakoff and Wehling reveal how cognitive science research has advanced our understanding of political thought and language, forcing us to revise common folk theories about the rational voter.
Nyckelord: Politics, liberal, conservative, progressive, Republican, Democrat, economics, election campaigns, voting, elections, floating voters, swing voters, political middle, embodied cognition, cognitive linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, belief, strict father model, nurturant parent model, biconceptualism, political persuasion, propaganda, political language, rational voter, metaphors, embodied mind, morality, political theory, Darwin, taxation, values, political framing, religion, freedom
- Författare
- Lakoff, George
- Utgivare
- Andrews UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2016
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Serie
- Societas
- Sidantal
- 141 sidor
- Kategori
- Psykologi
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781845409241
- Tryckt ISBN
- 9781845409210