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This topic was an excellent summary of what we have covered in the course so far. We discussed the role of personality & media on conflicts, nationalist ideas in relation to cognitions, emotions, attitudes etc. The topic ‘conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace’ helped me give a nice ending to the course by concluding all the…

The concept of nationalism has always caught my attention. Why do people buy the idea of nationalism? What are their motivations? Do these nationalist ideas lead to ethnic conflict and later terrorism? After reading the chapter, I understood that nationalists have a strong desire for independence and unity and the governments of nation-states have an…

It was an interesting chapter to read because media plays a vital role in politics. The term ‘agenda setting’ as Cohen (1963) wrote, “The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about” This is a…

This topic was very interesting as it helped me delve deeply into the question ‘How do people decide who to vote?’ The chapter first touched upon some terminologies like beliefs, values, ideology, attitudes and schemas which were later elaborated on. The chapter focuses on the role of information processing in political choices. It mentions how…

Initially, I was interested to see the role of personality being discussed in this chapter as we debated about this topic in Chapter 2 as well. I remember by the end of the third week’s discussion, we reached to the conclusion that personality has minimal effect on politics, however, as I started reading this chapter,…

The given article starts somewhat by introducing intuitive theories and in my words, intuitive theories can be explained in such a way that they act as functions in the human mind to help make quick perceptions or judgments of different domains. From what I understood regarding the experiments, people prefer voting as the decision method…

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