Emotion And Strategic Learning In War

Abstract

This paper applies the framework of affective intelligence theory—a theory of how emotions affect attitudes, beliefs, and decision making—to elite learning during war time. Doing so provides novel hypotheses about when and how war leaders respond to new events. These hypotheses are tested using a set of cases drawn from the Winter War. Findings suggest that these emotion-derived hypotheses may be more effective in predicting learning and its absence than purely Bayesian or extant cognitive models of learning.

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Publication Title

Foreign Policy Analysis

Volume

12

Issue

4

Number of Pages

571-590

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/fpa.12052

Socpus ID

85028255256 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85028255256

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