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SUMMARY:Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems
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DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisci
	plinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences\n\nWhat expla
	ins the contents of political belief systems? A widespread view is that th
	ey derive from abstract values like equality\, tolerance and authority. He
	re\, David Pinsof challenges this view\, arguing instead that belief syste
	ms derive from political alliance structures that vary across nations and 
	time periods. When partisans mobilize support for their political allies\,
	 they generate patchwork narratives that appeal to ad-hoc and often incomp
	atible moral principles.\n\nIn the first part of the talk\, Pinsof will ex
	plain how people choose their allies and how they support their allies usi
	ng propagandistic tactics. In the second part\, he will show how these cho
	ices and tactics give rise to political alliance structures with their str
	ange bedfellows and the idiosyncratic contents of belief systems. He propo
	ses that if Alliance Theory is correct\, then political psychology needs a
	 radically different approach—one in which belief systems arise not from d
	eep-seated moral values but from ever-shifting alliances and rivalries.\n\
	nThis talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will b
	e served.\n\nEvent Website: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QNHEb
	ogyQGWtTlo_qcDjFQ\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/ef2752c9-747
	2-440a-a85d-7c31ff6a3da8
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) - https://ucla.zoom.us/web
	inar/register/WN_QNHEbogyQGWtTlo_qcDjFQ
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