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Works-in-Progress with Dr. Mark Fisher: Emotion and Cognition in Presidential Politics

UCI Medical Humanities Works-in-Progress with Dr. Mark Fisher:
Emotion and Cognition in Presidential Politics

The US Presidential campaign of 2016 has been the most contentious in recent history. How can we make sense of what transpired?

Join the Medical Humanities Initiative on December 7 for a Work-in-Progress lecture by Dr. Mark Fisher on Emotion and Cognition in Presidential Politics. Using models drawn from contemporary neuroscience and classical psychoanalysis, Dr. Fisher will discuss a series of analytical frameworks that may help provide rational understanding of how the election evolved.

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Full Abstract
The US Presidential campaign of 2016 has been the most contentious in recent history. The two oldest pair of candidates generated strong and divisive emotions among the electorate. Bewildering behavior of the candidates was not infrequent. Commentaries of the campaign alluded to the implausibly of what was happening, and how the narrative of the actual campaign seemed too strange to incorporate into even a fictional account of the election.

How can we make sense of what transpired? Using models drawn from contemporary neuroscience and classical psychoanalysis, Dr. Fisher will discuss a series of analytical frameworks that may help provide rational understanding of how the election evolved. Dr. Fisher is a member of the UCI program in political psychology, and this presentation is based in part on his graduate seminar in Political Science “Emotion & Politics."