Strategic Instincts : : The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics / / Dominic D. P. Johnson.
How cognitive biases can guide good decision making in politics and international relationsA widespread assumption in political science and international relations is that cognitive biases—quirks of the brain we all share as human beings—are detrimental and responsible for policy failures, disasters...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 13 b/w illus. 8 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Our Gift
- Chapter 1. Adaptive Biases: Making the Right Mistakes in International Politics
- Chapter 2. The Evolution of an Idea: Politics in the Age of Biology
- Chapter 3. Fortune Favors the Bold: The Strategic Advantages of Overconfidence
- Chapter 4. The Lion and the Mouse: Overconfidence and the American Revolution
- Chapter 5. Hedging Bets: The Strategic Advantages of Attribution Error
- Chapter 6. Know Your Enemy: Britain and the Appeasement of Hitler
- Chapter 7. United We Stand: The Strategic Advantages of Group Bias
- Chapter 8. No Mercy: The Pacific Campaign of World War II
- Chapter 9. Overkill: The Limits of Adaptive Biases
- Chapter 10. Guardian Angels: The Strategic Advantages of Cognitive Biases
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Type