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The Pain is Real: The Emotional Toll of Losing an Election
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Nov 9, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
HKS Associate Professor Todd Rogers demonstrates the drastic emotional impact electoral wins and losses have on political partisans, influencing their overall happiness even more than national tragedies. He also discusses our tendency to believe in a favorable future and introduces the concept of paltering, which describes the active use of truthful statements to mislead.
Released:
Nov 9, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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