{"id":1512,"date":"2008-11-25T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:54:09","slug":"the-political-brain-drew-westen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1512","title":{"rendered":"The Political Brain (Drew Westen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SSv2xqK5adI\/AAAAAAAACjI\/IGsMntt9gAo\/s1600-h\/political+brain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SSv2xqK5adI\/AAAAAAAACjI\/IGsMntt9gAo\/s400\/political+brain.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Very stimulating application of contemporary research into the emotions (something I&#8217;ve had a long standing interest in &#8211; see, eg, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/reasonable-atheism-10-emotions-and.html\">here<\/a>) to the political sphere in the United States. I particularly enjoyed the dissection of the Gore-Bush debates, and the plausible explanation of why Bush &#8220;won&#8221;. Clearly a big influence on the Obama campaign &#8211; let&#8217;s hope that Palin reads it too, although she seems to be a natural at most of it. Highly recommended.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very stimulating application of contemporary research into the emotions (something I&#8217;ve had a long standing interest in &#8211; see, eg, here) to the political sphere in the United States. I particularly enjoyed the dissection of the Gore-Bush debates, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-palin","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-oo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6740,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}