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SUMMARY:Taming Intuition: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Biases - Kevin
  Arceneaux (University of Temple)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180518T140000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180518T150000
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DESCRIPTION:Democracy rests on the idea that the people should govern them
 selves. In modern democracies\, effective self-governance requires people 
 to vote for candidates who share their values and against those who fail t
 o live up to their expectations. Are voters up to this task? Decades of re
 search suggests that people are blinded by their partisan attachments\, ma
 king them more interested in rooting for their party than in holding elect
 ed officials accountable. We address this question by constructing the Int
 uitionist Model of Political Reasoning\, which incorporates advances about
  the workings of the human mind made by cognitive sciences. Contrary to ca
 nonical models of political reasoning that treat reasoning as an entirely 
 conscious act\, this model recognizes that people’s decisions are guided
  by unconsciously formed intuitions. In politics\, people’s intuitive re
 sponse is to root for their partisan team. When this intuitive response le
 ads people astray - such as when their party leaders make bad decisions - 
 democratic theory requires that they reflect on their intuitive response a
 nd vote against their party. It turns out that people vary in their willin
 gness to be reflective and\, as a result\, in their ability to live up to 
 the demands of self-governance.\nSpeakers:\nKevin Arceneaux (University of
  Temple)
LOCATION:Nuffield College (Butler room)\, New Road OX1 1NF
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/670ec074-8e07-4bbf-8704-481ddf89d4cc/
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