Beyond Rationality

Alex Mintz is Former Provost and Director of the Program on Political Psychology and Decision Making (POPDM) at IDC Herzliya in Israel. Nicholas A. Valentino is Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Carly Wayne is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in Saint Louis.

1. Living in interesting times: How can behavioral political science help us understand the current political moment?; 2. The rational actor model of political decision making; 3. The limits of human processing: Bounded rationality, heuristics and biases; 4. What you say may matter less than how you say it: The role of framing in political communication effects; 5. The limitations of the unitary actor model of government; 6. Feeling politics: How emotions impact attitudes and behavior; 7. The origins of political preferences: Material self-interest or personality, moral values and group attitudes?; 8. Better to be right or to belong? Motivated reasoning in politics; 9. Looking forward: How behavioral political science can help policymakers.