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Just world phenomenon

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we get what we deserve , conservatives more likely to believe it

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Liberals

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Liberals have larges onterios cortex assiociated with monitoring uncertainty

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Conservatives

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have a larger amygdala associated with fear

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Propaganda

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deliberate, direct behavoir, systematic, change cognitions methodical and organized.

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shape perceptions

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symbols and slogans

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terminology

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tas as a burden

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Manipulating tcognition

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Dehumanising the enemy, direct behavoir manipulating

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Gaslighting

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play , manipulating a person into mistrust their own instincs, make them question their views of the world, psycholoogical abuse, multiple times.

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spin

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a political figure frames an issue and leaves information that is not profiting them

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Brainwashing

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origin in totalitairian regimes , torture drugs ex. North Korea, psychological torture

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steps of brainwashin

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Keep the subject in isolation, no lights or clocks
self distribution
malnutrition
threats of physical harm
reduces ability to think critically and independentally
taking away identity
using guilt
self betrael
working towards a breaking point - confiucion
kidness give water etc other relief
compulsion to confess -confess crimes they did not commit
channeling guilt - your county is guilty
progress and harmony -introduce new systems convince them that they get rewarded if they change
-confession and rebirth - ritual
only 5% can resist the plan
teaching traing what to do in the situation
MKultra - porpoject to try and use LSD hyprosis telepathy remote viewing post korean war

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Ballet pamphlets to initiatives

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no requirement for thruth

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Voting behavoir - campaign ads

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emotional ads can be very effective

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four stages Campaign ad types of appeals

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1. Foundation 
Introduction and biography 
tends to be positive 
vision for the future 
portay themselves in positive light
  1. “why you should vote for me”
    qualifications
    assemenst of facts
  2. attack ads
    sometimes attack of opponent party
    sometimes attack of the president
    the opponent to negative aspects of the party
  3. wrap up ads
    sum up positive aspects of campaign
    remind people what the like about candidate
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campaing ads

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traditionally the most prominent source og info about the initiaiatives 
candidates under the presidential level 
-different types of appeals 
-cognitive : provision of facts 
no legal requrement to be true 

Affect: eliciting emotional respone

  • happiness , pride , fear, angry
  • activates gut-level respone
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Digital ads

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have changed the way traditional campaign ads woke

  • lack of control of timing ads
  • they are made themselves certain demographics

“viral” phenomenon pressure to create meme catchy ads
can be longer than traditional lenght

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Rhetorical purposes of campaign ads

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  1. praise candidate definitional adress issue. partisan appeal , shared values, raise money for campaigns
  2. Candeming opponent
    soft sell: human self deprecation
    hard sell - omnius, dark colars, slow music
  3. response ads
    rebuttal
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repition

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repition works, see them multiple times, think the content is true
simple, simplify understanding of issue

first impression are made from introductory ads
if first is negative by opponent, that sticks in our minds

campaign ads are more effective during primals rather general elections

people most pervaved by ads are middle knowledgeable people
law interest issues
high interest are petter inforem and not swayes

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ads

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campaign ads hande perception about candidate during genreal election, doesnt change votes
studies shot that fabricated images in campaign ads do not work if people have acess to other info that could prove it to be wrong

very few campaing ads change coting behavoir on a massive scale unless it feeds of a preexisting narrative

swift boat ads
negative campaigning, has increased over time - can have negative consequenses for future
depress voter turnout

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Social indetity theory tajfell

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intergroup behavoir motivated by group categorization concept with group concept
self esteem

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Minimal group paradigm

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minimal conditions in order for discrimation to occur does not tak much for discrimination
categorizing predispotion
differences lead to discrimintaion
institutions who classify people, defining people

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tolerance

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need to tolerate all groups in society 
differ by who is doing the tolerating 
more education 
social status 
younger 
religiosity 
low levels of interpersonal 
only tolerate the ones that believe it
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Subconcious Bias

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Infants not socialized yet can make a distinction between race and gender.

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by stander effect

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associated with refusion of responsibility

between different countries

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identifiable victim affect

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more likely to help a person close that we can see than 200 far away that we dont see, abstract

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nationalism country

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sense of identification with a group sharing history territory or culture
believes in the superiority of the group

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realistic group conflict theory

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palestine/israel

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social dominance theory

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highest status
supress the other group
create structure to legitimate their position
poor people are poor cause they deserve it.

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freud

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narcisism of minor diferences
naturally aggressive towards other groups
split the world into good and bad

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evolutionary

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biological evolutionary 
favor those who are gentically similar to us 
protect our familiy and genes 
altruistic 
nature vs nuture
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why vote?

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rational choice cost vs benfit 
feel of contributing 
no voter-no democracy 
group loyalti 
social pressure 

attitudes towards tax conservatives generally

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how do we chose?

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values, group orientation

self interest freedom vs equality

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spacial model of voting

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issue space compare and choose who is closest to your own position

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retrospective voting

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lock back and vote from previous results

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Dunning-Kruger

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The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to the seemingly pervasive tendency of poor performers to overestimate their abilities relative to other people–and, to a lesser extent, for high performers to underestimate their abilities

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democratic behavoir

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understand one’s position, ideology issue position
highly politcally sofisticated - more likely to be politically active
more likely yo be more extreme

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political democratic

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candidate behavoir, understand background compare to your own and choose a candidate
wathc them in office and reward punish in next election
problem people are mostly not that informed or interested

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people knowledge

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people are uninformed , not ideological dont know how the governemtn works, majority was incompetent, irrational
most americans express a party identification rare to change

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information

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low information more likely to vote split
high and low are more likely to vote straight on partisan candidates
middle information - split, go back and forth
campaign ads, recent likeability karisma gender race

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low information rationality

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make retionel sense not to vote
ability to vote with concience, happy with the way things are going
irrational to vote, keep up with informaion, watch the nes economically cost vs benefit not voting is rational

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fire alarm model

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its possible to not pay attention and if something happens you can step in and take action
specific issues raise more attention
not working if you dont find out

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Impechement

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House lawmakers announced formal charges against President Donald Trump that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him only the third US president in history to face impeachment.