Motivated reasoning and elections – how clever communications can help
Heads up: Political nerd post coming in hot! Years ago when I was thinking about what to focus my psych honours thesis on, I was reading a book called The Political Brain, by Drew Westen. (Strong recommend btw if you…
How Labor lost the unloseable election
In an election that was supposed to be a shoo-in for Labor many were shocked on Saturday night when the coalition won a ”miracle victory”. Like many I spent yesterday reading about what went wrong and how the polls had…
