Is Political Cognition Like Riding a Bicycle? How Cognitive Neuroscience Can Inform Research on Political Thinking

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6337534
AutoresMatthew D Lieberman (0000-0002-4447-7359, University of California, Los Angeles), Darren Schreiber (0000-0001-6686-1864, University of California, Los Angeles), Kevin N Ochsner (0000-0001-8532-2129, University of California, Los Angeles)
Año2003
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas681-704
Fecha de publicación2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1046/j.1467-9221.2003.00347.x
OpenAlexW2119742064
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas47
Referencias citadas85

Our understanding of political phenomena, including political attitudes and sophistication, can be enriched by incorporating the theories and tools of cognitive neuroscience—in particular, the cognitive neuroscience of nonconscious habitual cognition (akin to bicycle riding). From this perspective, different types of informational “building blocks” can be construed from which different types of political attitudes may arise. A reflection‐reflexion model is presented that describes how these blocks combine to produce a given political attitude as a function of goals, primes, expertise, and inherent conflict in considerations relevant to the attitude. The ways in which neuroimaging methods can be used to test hypotheses of political cognition are reviewed

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Function (biology · Neuroimaging · Perspective (graphical · Political psychology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Voting behavior · Action Observation and Synchronization · Cognitive Neuroscience · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Law · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology