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War and Happiness, 1st ed. 2019
The Role of Temperament in the Assessment of Resolve
Author: Jenkins Peter S.
Language: EnglishSubject for War and Happiness:
Keywords
assessment of resolve; self-serving bias; explanatory style; psycholinguistic text-mining; origin of wars; British Hansard; Congressional Record; causal attributions; happiness; depression; sadness; depressive realism; emotional climate; cross-cultural research; deterrence and spiral theory; current calculus; desires-based causal attribution; prospect theory; income inequality; long-term trends in happiness
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Add to cart the book of Jenkins Peter S.Publication date: 10-2020
378 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Jenkins Peter S.Publication date: 06-2019
378 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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Proposes that leaders, politicians and diplomats who have depressive temperaments will tend to underestimate the resolve of their state’s adversaries and overestimate the resolve of its allies, while the converse will occur when those individuals have non-depressive temperaments
Argues that the emotional climate of a state’s national legislature changes significantly over the long term in response to exogenous factors, creating a greater risk of the outbreak of war being caused by the overestimation or underestimation of its adversary’s resolve
Presents a groundbreaking analysis of empirical data, from psycholinguistic text mining and semantic analysis of debates, speeches, statements and memos to detailed case studies of the origins of twelve wars with Anglo-American involvement from 1853 to 2003