The political brain: The role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation.

By Drew Westen. 2007

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Implicit affect in organizations (2009, background): “However, fewer researchers have systematically explored the territory of implicit affect in light of the available evidence (e.g., Westen, 1985, 1998a, 2007; Winkielman & Berridge, 2004).”
Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box (2011, background): “It is more correct to say that we have little insight into where implicit attitudes come from, often confusing a nonconscious bias with a self-justifying rationalization (Haidt, 2006; Westen, 2007).”
Redefining green growth within planetary boundaries (2018, background): “This holds the psychological potential for activating emotionally powerful neural networks, underlying public engagement (Weber and Johnson, 2012; Westen, 2008).”
Special Thematic Section on "Societal Change" A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems (2013, background): “Empirical evidence for such effects of motivated cognition is abundant (e.g., Westen, 2007; Westen, Blagov, Harenski, Kilts, & Hamann, 2006; for a review, see Kunda, 1990).”
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes* (2013, background): “Yet Landau et al.’s (2004a) data are frequently upheld as direct support for Jost’s conservative-shift hypothesis of MS effects in the political domain (e.g., Franken, 2005; Westen, 2007).”
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. (2009, background): “Voters are also influenced by a wide variety of social and emotional forces (Marcus, 2002; Westen, 2007).”
Above and Below Left–Right: Ideological Narratives and Moral Foundations (2009, background): “But psychologists have far less understanding of the Level 3 constructs that are so important in shaping opinions and attitudes and in drawing people into or out of political movements (Westen, 2007).”
Feeling the Future: The Emotional Oracle Effect (2012, unknown): “It would also account for study 1's results if voting behavior in presidential elections is largely affective (Westen 2007).”
Can Grammar Win Elections (2011, background): “This is plausible given that negative information arouses emotions and captures attention (e.g., Baumeister et al., 2001; Rozin & Royzman, 2001; Westen, 2007) and the imperfective form widens scope (Frawley, 1992) and draws attention to details of actions (e.”