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Strategic Instincts : The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics /

"At the heart of much work in international relations is the attempt to understand why citizens and leaders act as they do-and over the last decade, a growing body of research has shown that the "rational choice theory" that has long guided this understanding is insufficient. People d...

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Auteur principal: Johnson, Dominic D. P., 1974- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : our gift
  • Adaptive biases : making the right mistakes in international politics
  • The evolution of an idea : politics in the age of biology
  • Fortune favors the bold : the strategic advantages of overconfidence
  • The lion and the mouse : overconfidence and the American Revolution
  • Hedging bets : the strategic advantages of attribution error
  • Know your enemy : Britain and the appeasement of Hitler
  • United we stand : the strategic advantages of group bias
  • No mercy : the Pacific campaign of World War II
  • Overkill : the limits of adaptive biases
  • Guardian angels : the strategic advantages of cognitive biases.