Talk:Study: Partisan political thought is predominantly unconscious and emotional

Please be more specific by what you mean by specifics. I'll add a source to the draft paper if its available, but I'm not sure if he'll have it up. My guess is that this is based upon conference abstracts & the NYT interviewed the guy. Nyarlathotep 08:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

He has drafts available, but you have to harass his staff to get one, as they want to know who reads it before publication. Nyarlathotep 14:41, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

One thing you might consider

"A considerable body of research..." this phrase reads to me as "weasel words", although I'm sure it is justified. You might consider finding one or more authority and quote from them along the lines of Dr. So-and-so expressed the consensus of the research community in this field when xe said "blah blah." Just an idea. - Amgine | ^{talk en.WN} 08:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

maybe these quotes can help:

• Prior research suggests voters behave differently in different emotional states but has not established whether politicians can use campaigns to manipulate emotions and thereby cause changes in political behavior.

from the abstract of Ted Brader. Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions, Volume 49, Issue 2, American Journal of Political Science, (April 2005), draft. note that it is a weaker claim.

• One critique of traditional voting models is that they do not take into account the role of emotions. However, a number of studies have shown that in the electoral context emotions have impact as well

from Martin Rosema, Passion Beats Reason: Emotionality versus Rationality in Vote Choice, Paper to be presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Toronto, Canada, 3-6 July 2005. draft.

Doldrums 09:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, its a weak sentence, but some such sentence needs to be included to help explain whats not new about this work. We can probably site this fact to some wikipedia article, maybe one qualifing for wikipediapar. Nyarlathotep 13:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Odd, Advertising Psychology has no wikipedia article, dispite the fact that its a 100 year old field! Nyarlathotep 14:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I majored and worked in advertising; we like to keep the "psychology" part of our business out of the public arena:) but this wikipedia article Subliminal message is not too bad an intro. The external links are useful, Wilson Bryan Key's 1975 book ties subliminal messaging to Orwellian society, and the reference to the Bush Sr. campaign is interesting.Neutralizer 13:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't even read that because I assumed it was going to be garbage.  :) It would be nice if Wikipedia had real articles about this subject; there is plenty of interesting research in the area. Nyarlathotep 13:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

agreed; it's an extremely important topic. But I am surprised to hear the -phrase "I assumed" coming from you. I wonder if Newton ever uttered it?:) Neutralizer 15:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

first hand quotes

both drafts list e-mail addresses of the authors. original reporters out there might be interested in emailing them or other researchers for a quote.

see also George E. Marcus, Professor, Political Science Dept., Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. his work was well-cited in those papers i looked at. and his publications include

• George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, and Michael MacKuen, "Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment." 2000. University of Chicago Press.
• George E. Marcus, "The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics." 2002, Penn State University Press.
• George E. Marcus and Michael MacKuen, "Emotions and Politics: The Dynamic Functions of Emotionality," chapter in Citizens and Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology, Jim Kuklinski (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2001.

wikinews

I guess many discussions on wikinews lend ample support this study (although there are editors that can see beyond partisan lines...) --vonbergm 19:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

rename

I added "Study:" to the front of this to indicate it's not a statement from wikinews. sinblox ^(talk) 03:02, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

"Study says" might be better, but whatever. Nyarlathotep 10:22, 26 January 2006 (UTC)