Worth a moment of your time (Jan 23 2007)

Psychology explains bias towards aggresive foreign policies?
Rationally Speaking looks at the psychology of bias in foreign policy making:.
"The basic idea is that humans are affected by a large number of “biases,” i.e. instinctual reactions affecting our judgment in a non-rational, and often downright irrational, way. Many of these biases, according to Kahneman and Renshon, explain why political “hawks” win arguments in the public arena much more often than they ought to when compared to their stereotypical rivals, the “doves.” (The authors are of course quick to point out that their argument doesn't prove that an hawkish strategy is always, or even often, wrong, just that the hawkish argument often carries the day for the wrong reason.)

Video worth your time: Psychic charlatan Sylvia Brown gets wonderfully exposed by CNN

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Oh nice. I'm glad to see this woman getting some negative airtime, rather than the Montel Williams treatment again.

[el tom]

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