Jonathan Cowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Cowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowden |
| SIGNATURE | COWDEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Monoamine oxidase A gene (Maoa) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation
Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) has earned the nickname “warrior gene” because it has been linked to aggression in observational and survey-based studies. However, no controlled experimental studies have tested whether the warrior gene actually drives behavioral manifestations of these tendencies. We report an experiment, synthesizing work in psychology and behavioral economics, which demonstrates that aggression occurs with greater intensity and…
The role of hostile communications in a crisis simulation game
Diplomacy rests on the proper tools and the successful implementation of communication. This article examines the impact of the tone of messages sent between opponents in a simulated crisis game. Findings are that hostile communications precipitate higher amounts of weapons purchasing and lower allotments of money to industrial production. Additional findings are that leaders who engage in friendly communications are more likely to negotiate, whe…
Testosterone and Aggression in a Simulated Crisis Game
This study investigated the impact of testosterone on aggression in a crisis simulation game. We found a significant positive relationship between levels of testosterone and aggression. Men were much more likely to engage in aggressive action than women. They were more likely to lose their fights as well. Since testosterone was around five times higher among men, and men engage in such fights more than women, there is an automatic statistical lin…
Framing, Uncertainty, and Hostile Communications in a Crisis Experiment
During times of crisis, do cognitive processes shape leaders’ procurement decisions in predictable ways? Drawing on psychological literature, we propose four factors that may have a substantial influence on how much money leaders engaged in ongoing disputes allocate to their military: (1) striving for superiority versus striving for parity in military resources; (2) uncertainty regarding the characteristics of weapons systems; (3) ambiguity regar…
The effects of uncertainty and sex in a crisis simulation game
We conducted an experimental test of spiraling behavior, sex differences, and uncertainty in a simulated crisis situation. We investigated the relationship between weapons acquisition and the likelihood of engaging in aggressive behavior, such as going to war. The sample included 100 male and female subjects who participated in a crisis simulation in same‐sex dyads; each student was instructed to role play the leader of a country in conflict with…
Southernization of the Nation and Nationalization of the South
Many scholars and pundits believe that the 1964 presidential election between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson disrupted the New Deal order and ushered in a sixth party system anchored in part by race issues. But, curiously, the conventional wisdom has not fared well empirically. In this article, I employ disaggregated survey data and novel methodological tools to identify temporal patterns in the relationships between partisanship, New Deal is…
Short-Term Forces and Partisanship
Hit or Miss
Book reviewed: Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions, Yaakov Vertzberger
The convergence of American elites’ domestic beliefs with their foreign policy beliefs
Contemporary scholarship on elites’ foreign policy beliefs is based upon the implicit assumption that the dimensions underpinning these attitudes are separate and distinct from those which undergird attitudes about domestic politics. Indeed, the dominant conception of Americans’ foreign policy beliefs uses labels to describe dimensions—militant internationalism and cooperative internationalism—which are relevant to international affairs but meani…
Self‐Effacing and Self‐Defeating Leadership
Using neo‐Freudian analysis, this essay argues that as a child Adlai Stevenson experienced shame, anxiety, and ambivalence about the value and consequences of his initiative and autonomy. He responded with an imaginative coping mechanism, creating an idealized image in which ambition and autonomy were subordinated to duty and service. After a sequence of searing events during the Eriksonian period of identity versus role confusion, he resolved hi…
The Role of "Enemy Images" and Ideology of Elite Belief Systems
We use data from the Leadership Opinion Project (LOP), a panel survey of American opinion leaders which brackets the end of the Cold War, to investigate two interrelated questions about the structure of elites' foreign policy beliefs. We assess, first, whether the militant internationalism/cooperative internationalism scheme, developed primarily by Wittkopf (1981, 1990) and Holsti and Rosenau (1990), has continued relevance now that the USSR has …
Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings
Journal Article Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings? Get access Bruce Russett, Bruce Russett Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Cowden, Jonathan Cowden University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Kinsella, David Kinsella University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Dynamics of Campaign Fundraising in House Elections
Examination of disaggregated Federal Election Commission fundraising data for 1985-1986 House candidates illustrates the tremendous financial advantage incumbents enjoy over challengers. Incumbents raise more money than challengers in every single period of the election cycle, particularly in the decisive time just before the election. Incumbents are also able to react quickly to well-financed opposition. Challengers, on the other hand, must rais…
Who Protests
The most firmly entrenched example of the empirical disjuncture between self-interest and political attitudes concerns busing as a means of integrating schools. National and local survey data demonstrate that whites who are directly affected by busing are no more likely than other whites to oppose it. In this paper, we investigate the behavioral dimension of white opposition to busing--a dimension that previous scholars have ignored. We find that…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
The Dynamics of Campaign Fundraising in House Elections
Examination of disaggregated Federal Election Commission fundraising data for 1985-1986 House candidates illustrates the tremendous financial advantage incumbents enjoy over challengers. Incumbents raise more money than challengers in every single period of the election cycle, particularly in the decisive time just before the election. Incumbents are also able to react quickly to well-financed opposition. Challengers, on the other hand, must rais…
Who Protests
The most firmly entrenched example of the empirical disjuncture between self-interest and political attitudes concerns busing as a means of integrating schools. National and local survey data demonstrate that whites who are directly affected by busing are no more likely than other whites to oppose it. In this paper, we investigate the behavioral dimension of white opposition to busing--a dimension that previous scholars have ignored. We find that…
Framing, Uncertainty, and Hostile Communications in a Crisis Experiment
During times of crisis, do cognitive processes shape leaders’ procurement decisions in predictable ways? Drawing on psychological literature, we propose four factors that may have a substantial influence on how much money leaders engaged in ongoing disputes allocate to their military: (1) striving for superiority versus striving for parity in military resources; (2) uncertainty regarding the characteristics of weapons systems; (3) ambiguity regar…
Short-Term Forces and Partisanship
The effects of uncertainty and sex in a crisis simulation game
We conducted an experimental test of spiraling behavior, sex differences, and uncertainty in a simulated crisis situation. We investigated the relationship between weapons acquisition and the likelihood of engaging in aggressive behavior, such as going to war. The sample included 100 male and female subjects who participated in a crisis simulation in same‐sex dyads; each student was instructed to role play the leader of a country in conflict with…
Testosterone and Aggression in a Simulated Crisis Game
This study investigated the impact of testosterone on aggression in a crisis simulation game. We found a significant positive relationship between levels of testosterone and aggression. Men were much more likely to engage in aggressive action than women. They were more likely to lose their fights as well. Since testosterone was around five times higher among men, and men engage in such fights more than women, there is an automatic statistical lin…
The Role of "Enemy Images" and Ideology of Elite Belief Systems
We use data from the Leadership Opinion Project (LOP), a panel survey of American opinion leaders which brackets the end of the Cold War, to investigate two interrelated questions about the structure of elites' foreign policy beliefs. We assess, first, whether the militant internationalism/cooperative internationalism scheme, developed primarily by Wittkopf (1981, 1990) and Holsti and Rosenau (1990), has continued relevance now that the USSR has …
Southernization of the Nation and Nationalization of the South
Many scholars and pundits believe that the 1964 presidential election between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson disrupted the New Deal order and ushered in a sixth party system anchored in part by race issues. But, curiously, the conventional wisdom has not fared well empirically. In this article, I employ disaggregated survey data and novel methodological tools to identify temporal patterns in the relationships between partisanship, New Deal is…
The convergence of American elites’ domestic beliefs with their foreign policy beliefs
Contemporary scholarship on elites’ foreign policy beliefs is based upon the implicit assumption that the dimensions underpinning these attitudes are separate and distinct from those which undergird attitudes about domestic politics. Indeed, the dominant conception of Americans’ foreign policy beliefs uses labels to describe dimensions—militant internationalism and cooperative internationalism—which are relevant to international affairs but meani…
The role of hostile communications in a crisis simulation game
Diplomacy rests on the proper tools and the successful implementation of communication. This article examines the impact of the tone of messages sent between opponents in a simulated crisis game. Findings are that hostile communications precipitate higher amounts of weapons purchasing and lower allotments of money to industrial production. Additional findings are that leaders who engage in friendly communications are more likely to negotiate, whe…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
Self‐Effacing and Self‐Defeating Leadership
Using neo‐Freudian analysis, this essay argues that as a child Adlai Stevenson experienced shame, anxiety, and ambivalence about the value and consequences of his initiative and autonomy. He responded with an imaginative coping mechanism, creating an idealized image in which ambition and autonomy were subordinated to duty and service. After a sequence of searing events during the Eriksonian period of identity versus role confusion, he resolved hi…
Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings
Journal Article Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings? Get access Bruce Russett, Bruce Russett Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Cowden, Jonathan Cowden University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Kinsella, David Kinsella University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Who Protests
The most firmly entrenched example of the empirical disjuncture between self-interest and political attitudes concerns busing as a means of integrating schools. National and local survey data demonstrate that whites who are directly affected by busing are no more likely than other whites to oppose it. In this paper, we investigate the behavioral dimension of white opposition to busing--a dimension that previous scholars have ignored. We find that…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings
Journal Article Did Americans' Expectations of Nuclear War Reduce Their Savings? Get access Bruce Russett, Bruce Russett Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Cowden, Jonathan Cowden University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Kinsella, David Kinsella University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Dynamics of Campaign Fundraising in House Elections
Examination of disaggregated Federal Election Commission fundraising data for 1985-1986 House candidates illustrates the tremendous financial advantage incumbents enjoy over challengers. Incumbents raise more money than challengers in every single period of the election cycle, particularly in the decisive time just before the election. Incumbents are also able to react quickly to well-financed opposition. Challengers, on the other hand, must rais…
Hit or Miss
Book reviewed: Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions, Yaakov Vertzberger
The convergence of American elites’ domestic beliefs with their foreign policy beliefs
Contemporary scholarship on elites’ foreign policy beliefs is based upon the implicit assumption that the dimensions underpinning these attitudes are separate and distinct from those which undergird attitudes about domestic politics. Indeed, the dominant conception of Americans’ foreign policy beliefs uses labels to describe dimensions—militant internationalism and cooperative internationalism—which are relevant to international affairs but meani…
Self‐Effacing and Self‐Defeating Leadership
Using neo‐Freudian analysis, this essay argues that as a child Adlai Stevenson experienced shame, anxiety, and ambivalence about the value and consequences of his initiative and autonomy. He responded with an imaginative coping mechanism, creating an idealized image in which ambition and autonomy were subordinated to duty and service. After a sequence of searing events during the Eriksonian period of identity versus role confusion, he resolved hi…
The Role of "Enemy Images" and Ideology of Elite Belief Systems
We use data from the Leadership Opinion Project (LOP), a panel survey of American opinion leaders which brackets the end of the Cold War, to investigate two interrelated questions about the structure of elites' foreign policy beliefs. We assess, first, whether the militant internationalism/cooperative internationalism scheme, developed primarily by Wittkopf (1981, 1990) and Holsti and Rosenau (1990), has continued relevance now that the USSR has …
Short-Term Forces and Partisanship
The effects of uncertainty and sex in a crisis simulation game
We conducted an experimental test of spiraling behavior, sex differences, and uncertainty in a simulated crisis situation. We investigated the relationship between weapons acquisition and the likelihood of engaging in aggressive behavior, such as going to war. The sample included 100 male and female subjects who participated in a crisis simulation in same‐sex dyads; each student was instructed to role play the leader of a country in conflict with…
Southernization of the Nation and Nationalization of the South
Many scholars and pundits believe that the 1964 presidential election between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson disrupted the New Deal order and ushered in a sixth party system anchored in part by race issues. But, curiously, the conventional wisdom has not fared well empirically. In this article, I employ disaggregated survey data and novel methodological tools to identify temporal patterns in the relationships between partisanship, New Deal is…
Framing, Uncertainty, and Hostile Communications in a Crisis Experiment
During times of crisis, do cognitive processes shape leaders’ procurement decisions in predictable ways? Drawing on psychological literature, we propose four factors that may have a substantial influence on how much money leaders engaged in ongoing disputes allocate to their military: (1) striving for superiority versus striving for parity in military resources; (2) uncertainty regarding the characteristics of weapons systems; (3) ambiguity regar…
Testosterone and Aggression in a Simulated Crisis Game
This study investigated the impact of testosterone on aggression in a crisis simulation game. We found a significant positive relationship between levels of testosterone and aggression. Men were much more likely to engage in aggressive action than women. They were more likely to lose their fights as well. Since testosterone was around five times higher among men, and men engage in such fights more than women, there is an automatic statistical lin…
The role of hostile communications in a crisis simulation game
Diplomacy rests on the proper tools and the successful implementation of communication. This article examines the impact of the tone of messages sent between opponents in a simulated crisis game. Findings are that hostile communications precipitate higher amounts of weapons purchasing and lower allotments of money to industrial production. Additional findings are that leaders who engage in friendly communications are more likely to negotiate, whe…
Monoamine oxidase A gene (Maoa) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation
Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) has earned the nickname “warrior gene” because it has been linked to aggression in observational and survey-based studies. However, no controlled experimental studies have tested whether the warrior gene actually drives behavioral manifestations of these tendencies. We report an experiment, synthesizing work in psychology and behavioral economics, which demonstrates that aggression occurs with greater intensity and…
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