Johnson, Dominic D. P.
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서명/저자사항 | Strategic instincts : the adaptive advantages of cognitive biases in international politics/ Dominic D.P Johnson. |
개인저자 | Johnson, Dominic D. P.,1974- author. |
발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2020]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (x, 375 pages): illustrations. |
총서사항 | Princeton studies in international history and politics |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Johnson, Dominic D. P., 1974- Strategic instincts Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. 9780691137452 |
ISBN | 0691185603 9780691185606 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | 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. |
요약 | "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 do not always behave rationally; instead, most of us have psychological biases that cause us to behave "irrationally." As political science has integrated this new behavioral research, the literature has tended to view such biases as source of errors or mistakes. Yet for other fields-most notably evolutionary biology-the same psychological biases are recognized as adaptive heuristics that evolved to improve our decision-making, not to undermine it. In this book, Johnson uses his cross-disciplinary training to push this evolutionary understanding of biases into the study of politics. Specifically, he asks: when and how can psychological biases cause or promote success in the realm of international relations? Johnson focuses on three of the most prominent psychological biases-overconfidence, the fundamental attribution error (the tendency to see others' actions as motivated by personality rather than the influence of external/situational factors) and in-group/out-group bias (favoring members of group one identifies with over those one does not). He outlines the scientific research on each bias, explores its adaptive advantages, and then gives detailed historical examples where the bias seems to have caused strategic advantages, focusing on the American Revolution (overconfidence), the UK and the appeasement of Hitler (fundamental attribution error) and the Pacific campaign in WW2 (group bias). He then circles back to acknowledge the "dark side" of biases when taken to the extreme, considering how confidence becomes hubris, the attribution error becomes paranoia and group bias becomes racism. Ultimately, Johnson argues that this evolutionary perspective is the crucial next step in bringing psychological insights to bear on the foundational questions in the field"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
주제명 (통일서명) | Munich Four-Power Agreement --(1938) Munich Four-Power Agreement. --fast |
주제명(지명) | United States --History --Revolution, 1775-1783. Pacific Area. --fast United States. --fast |
일반주제명 | International relations --Psychological aspects. International relations --Decision making. Strategy --Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945 --Campaigns --Pacific Area. International relations --Decision making. International relations --Psychological aspects. Military campaigns. Strategy --Psychological aspects. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General |
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