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Political Psychology: Citizen Behaviors and Opinions

Political Psychology: Citizen Behaviors and Opinions. Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence. Program. What is affect? Historical bias against emotions Lessons from neurosciences A model for politics Elements of demonstration Criticisms. What is affect?. Lecture 7

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Political Psychology: Citizen Behaviors and Opinions

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  1. Political Psychology:Citizen Behaviors and Opinions Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  2. Program • What is affect? • Historical bias against emotions • Lessons from neurosciences • A model for politics • Elements of demonstration • Criticisms

  3. What is affect? Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  4. What is affect? • Psychological state that is felt as pleasant or unpleasant. • There are many finer distinctions. • Can be generated by an outside stimuli, an interior thought, or a physiological change.

  5. A historical bias against emotions Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  6. A historical bias • Cult of rationality • Dangerous emotions • Need to contain them

  7. Four pathologies • Displacement pathology • Distraction pathology • Intransigence pathology • Self-absorption pathology

  8. Lessons from neurosciences Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  9. Two revealing studies • Édouard Claparède and his patient unable to form new memories • Antonio D’Amasio and his card game

  10. Implications • Affect precedes cognition. • Affective treatment is unconscious. • Habits are useful.

  11. Two types of memory • Declarative memory • Procedural memory

  12. Two types of memory

  13. A model for politics Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  14. Two emotional systems • Disposition system: • manages execution of habits • produces enthusiasm or frustration • Surveillance system: • searches for novelty and threat • launches cognitive analysis • produces anxiety or calmness

  15. Two emotional systems Indicate: • when people will use their partisan attachments in politics, • when they will pay attention to issues, • when they will be motivated to learn, • and when they will be persuaded to switch sides.

  16. Implications • Unless anxious, voters will rely on political habits. • Citizens need enthusiasm to vote according to habits. • What makes people anxious depends on their habits. • When anxious, individuals will use habits less, be motivated to learn, be more attentive, be more influenced by deliberation, and make more enlightened choices.

  17. Elements of demonstration Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  18. Variation of emotions? • Experiments • Electoral campaigns • Economic conjuncture

  19. Variation of emotions?

  20. Variation of emotions?

  21. Two systems?

  22. Two systems?

  23. Two systems?

  24. More engagement?

  25. More engagement?

  26. More defection?

  27. Differents ingredients?

  28. Better choices?

  29. Affective intelligence • Complement to rational choice theory • Optimist perspective on the quality of citizens’ decisions

  30. Criticisms Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

  31. Criticisms • Does affect really precede cognition? • It is difficult to distinguish affect from cognition. • A beneficial influence on decision quality?

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