The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

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Title The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 2009
Authors Lakoff, G.
Publisher Penguin Books
Keywords authoritarianism, conformity
Notes conformity"Our democracy is presently being threatened by the politics of obedience to authority, the very thing that democracy was invented to counteract....Democracy is too important to leave the shaping of the brains of Americans to authoritarians." (p. 120)
URL http://books.google.com/books?id=oUd7a9OUgtAC