National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
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How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, National Security through a Cockeyed Lens.Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders’ decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world… [From Amazon.com]
ISBN
9781421411255
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, Maryland
Keywords
National security, Decision making, Foreign relations, United States
Disciplines
American Politics | Cognitive Psychology | International Relations | National Security Law
Recommended Citation
Yetiv, Steve A., "National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy" (2013). Political Science & Geography Faculty Books. 15.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/15