{"id":10628,"date":"2014-09-09T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:13:35","slug":"the-emotional-war-how-bad-news-effects-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/the-emotional-war-how-bad-news-effects-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emotional War &#8211; How Bad News Effects Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.cos.ucf.edu\/people\/dolan-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/Dolan-e1410198523681.jpg\" alt=\"Dolan\" width=\"186\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\u201cEmotion and Strategic Learning in War\u201d an article recently published\u00a0by Assistant Professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.cos.ucf.edu\/people\/dolan-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas\u00a0Dolan<\/a>. The article was published in the International Studies Association Journal <em>Foreign Policy Analysis<\/em>. Dr. Dolan explores the hypothesis that anger and anxiety\u2014responses to different kinds of bad news\u2014determine whether leaders alter their war aims or strategies, or decide to \u2018stay the course\u2019. The research was\u00a0structured by \u2018setting the stage\u2019 for how people think about these decisions: the information that they focus on, their willingness to look more closely at the problem and their readiness to consider alternatives. The article goes on to\u00a0test the hypothesis by\u00a0using cases from the World-War II-era Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union and shows that both the democratic Finnish leaders and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin\u2019s responses to successes and failures were consistent with these expectations.\u00a0 The findings are not limited to history, however: whenever war leaders confront bad news, their emotional responses will play a central role in determining how they respond to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr.\u00a0Dolan is currently teaching graduate courses on International Politics and Advanced Qualitative Methods.\u00a0 Next semester, he\u00a0will be\u00a0teaching the undergraduate course \u201cCauses of War\u201d and a PH.D level course on International Security.\u00a0 He is currently working on other projects involving the effects of emotion on political decision-making, the effects of honor on bargaining between nations, the prospective role of cyber-attacks in international relations, the threat perception from terrorism and the &#8220;just war&#8221; theory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The article can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/fpa.12052\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEmotion and Strategic Learning in War\u201d an article recently published\u00a0by Assistant Professor\u00a0Thomas\u00a0Dolan. 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