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Your Brain's Politics

How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide
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At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they do? And what is the conceptual nature of those who decide elections, commonly called the "political middle"? 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.

Author Biography:

George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a founder of the field of cognitive linguistics and author of many books including The All New Don't Think of an Elephant! (2015 edition) and Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (2016, third edition). Elisabeth Wehling, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. She researches political morality using discourse analytical, behavioral, and neuroscience methods and has written several books including The Little Blue Book (2012) together with George Lakoff.
Release date NZ
November 1st, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
130
Series
Dimensions
135x210x10
ISBN-13
9781845409210
Product ID
26169378

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