The Price of Peace: Motivated Reasoning and Costly Signaling in International Relations
Abstract
Canonical models of costly signaling in international relations (IR) tend to assume costly signals speak for themselves: a signal's costliness is typically understood to be a function of the signal, not the perceptions of the recipient. Integrating the study of signaling in IR with research on motivated skepticism and asymmetric updating from political psychology, we show that individuals’ tendencies to embrace information consistent with their...
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Title
The Price of Peace: Motivated Reasoning and Costly Signaling in International Relations
Published Date
Nov 5, 2019
Journal
Volume
74
Issue
1
Pages
95 - 118
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