1. Political Psychology: Citizen Behaviors and Opinions Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

2. Program What is affect? Historical bias against emotions Lessons from neurosciences A model for politics Elements of demonstration Criticisms

3. What is affect? Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

4. What is affect? Psychological state that is felt as pleasant or unpleasant. There are many finer distinctions. Can be generated by an outside stimuli, an interior thought, or a physiological change.

5. A historical bias against emotions Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

6. A historical bias Cult of rationality Dangerous emotions Need to contain them

7. Four pathologies Displacement pathology Distraction pathology Intransigence pathology Self-absorption pathology

8. Lessons from neurosciences Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

9. Two revealing studies Édouard Claparède and his patient unable to form new memories Antonio D’Amasio and his card game

10. Implications Affect precedes cognition. Affective treatment is unconscious. Habits are useful.

11. Two types of memory Declarative memory Procedural memory

12. Two types of memory

13. A model for politics Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

14. Disposition system: – manages execution of habits – produces enthusiasm or frustration Surveillance system: – searches for novelty and threat – launches cognitive analysis – produces anxiety or calmness Two emotional systems

15. Indicate : when people will use their partisan attachments in politics, when they will pay attention to issues, when they will be motivated to learn, and when they will be persuaded to switch sides. Two emotional systems

16. Unless anxious, voters will rely on political habits. Citizens need enthusiasm to vote according to habits. What makes people anxious depends on their habits. When anxious, individuals will use habits less, be motivated to learn, be more attentive, be more influenced by deliberation, and make more enlightened choices. Implications

17. Elements of demonstration Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

18. Variation of emotions? Experiments Electoral campaigns Economic conjuncture

19. Variation of emotions?

21. Two systems?

24. More engagement?

26. More defection?

27. Differents ingredients?

28. Better choices?

29. Affective intelligence Complement to rational choice theory Optimist perspective on the quality of citizens’ decisions

30. Criticisms Lecture 7 Emotion 1: Affective intelligence

31. Criticisms Does affect really precede cognition? It is difficult to distinguish affect from cognition. A beneficial influence on decision quality?