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Why can you fall out with family members over political beliefs? Why do we vote the way we do? Why are some political topics so emotive and divisive?

These questions and more are answered in a new book by Dr Lee de-Wit, 香港六合彩中特网 Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS), which explores the science of voting and political decisions.

What鈥檚 Your Bias?聽investigates how political beliefs are shaped, the psychology of voting and how we respond to political disagreements.

Psychologists have long demonstrated that we vote for reasons we鈥檙e not consciously aware of, and that political decisions we make are never purely rational. In his book, Dr de-Wit places this research in the context of contemporary politics. He investigates topics such as personality type and tribalism; confirmation bias and fake news; emotional responses and irrational decision-making; fairness and cheating; altruism and self-interest; party politics, moral values and the appeal of nationalism.

鈥淚 suspect the science won鈥檛 stop us from disagreeing, but, with a little more perspective, it might become clearer what we are disagreeing about, and why it鈥檚 so difficult for us to see eye to eye,鈥� he said.

Dr de-Wit is a teaching fellow at PaLS and runs a third year module on the psychology of politics (PALS3011). He was previously a visiting researcher at the 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, the University of Oxford and University Hospital Piti茅-Salp锚tri猫re, Paris. His book will be published in both hardback and ebook formats on Thursday 14^th聽September 2017 by Elliot & Thompson.

Dr de-Wit will be holding a 香港六合彩中特网 Lunch Hour Lecture on the topic on Tuesday 27^th聽February 2018.

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