A01=Stephen Peter Rosen
Adolf Hitler
Aggression
American Psychologist
Arousal
Author_Stephen Peter Rosen
Behavior
Bekhterev
Calculation
Category=JWA
Cognition
Competition
Consciousness
Cortisol
Cost-benefit analysis
Decision-making
Dictatorship
Emotion and memory
Endocrine system
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Ernst Hanfstaengl
Experimental psychology
Explanation
Fight-or-flight response
Foreign policy
Great power
Group dynamics
Heritability
Hormone
Hostility
Human behavior
Inference
Institution
Interaction
International relations
Interrogation
Learning
Military operation
Negotiation
Neuroscience
Novelty seeking
Oligarchy
Personality type
Phenomenon
Policy
Political science
Politician
Politics
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Prediction
Prisoner of war
Psychological trauma
Psychologist
Psychology
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Result
Rhetoric
Ruler
Scientist
Soviet Union
Stressor
Suffering
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
Testosterone
Thomas Hobbes
Thought
Time horizon
Tyrant
Uncertainty
Warfare
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130569
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United States knowing full well the power of that country? War and Human Nature argues that new findings about the way humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide answers to such questions. This seminal work by former Defense Department official Stephen Peter Rosen contends that human evolutionary history has affected the way we process the information we use to make decisions. The result is that human choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted by standard models of rational behavior. This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace, Rosen contends. Human emotional arousal affects how people learn the lessons of history. For example, stress and distress influence people's views of the future, and testosterone levels play a role in human social conflict.
This thought-provoking and timely work explores the mind that has emerged from the biological sciences over the last generation. In doing so, it helps shed new light on many persistent puzzles in the study of war.
Stephen Peter Rosen is a political scientist and Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University
