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

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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)
Ano2003
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas681-704
Data de publicação2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1046/j.1467-9221.2003.00347.x
OpenAlexW2119742064
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas47
Referências 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