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April 17, 2005

Mental Models in Politics

This is kind of an odd link - a google cache of an html representation of a word doc - but it's a pretty fascinating short article about the mental models we share in culture, and how to activate them in politics.

In brief, they are:

  • suffering/victimization, linked to compassion
  • reciprocity/fairness/rights/justice, linked to anger and indignation
  • ingroup-outgroup, linked to pride and belongingness
  • hierarchy/duty, linked to feelings of respect and contempt
  • purity/sacredness, linked to feelings of disgust

The contention in the article is that Democrats tend to only focus on a couple of them, while Republicans have frames for all five.

Seems like you could almost make a personality test out of it.

Posted by tunesmith at April 17, 2005 02:34 PM

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