Where We Live: Packing A Political Punch
The role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation
By Where We Live - WNPR
Published: Oct 29, 2010
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Where We Live: PackingA Political Punch
If you've noticed the political campaigns this year they havent exactly been rich with issues and evidence. You're more likely to hear emotions, anger, empathy and fear. This is the world that Drew Westen studies. He is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University and author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation (2007), an investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation.
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It would be a good thing if more democratic leaders had been bullied as kids, because they'd understand that when someone bullies you the only proper response is to punch them in the mouth.
-Drew Westen
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