The Rationalizing Voter Quotes

“Visual agnosia is the inability of the brain to make sense of or make use of some part of an otherwise normal visual stimulus and is typified by the inability to recognize familiar objects or faces. This is distinct from blindness, which is a lack of sensory input to the brain due to damage to the eye, optic nerve, or the primary visual cortex. Visual agnosia is often due to stroke affecting the posterior occipital and/or temporal lobe(s) in the brain. The specific dysfunctions vary depending on the type of agnosia. Some sufferers are unable to copy drawings but are able to manipulate objects with good dexterity. Commonly, patients can name the object, here a tea cup, categorize it, but cannot describe its function; or the reverse, be able to drink from it appropriately but not know its name or describe its uses. Lesion studies clearly demonstrate that even crystallized objects, your left foot, or here a tea cup, are not “things” in long-term memory but are concepts constructed from multiple brain modules at the moment of perception (Farah, 1999).”
― Milton Lodge, The Rationalizing Voter

“The twin influences of affect contagion and affect transfer are, we believe, among the most powerful and underappreciated sources of unexplained variation in studies of political evaluation.”
― Milton Lodge, The Rationalizing Voter

“Open-mindedness is possible, but it is not our natural inclination.”
― Milton Lodge, The Rationalizing Voter

“For all δ > 0 and γ > 0, prior beliefs and attitudes bias the processing of information in the direction of priors.”
― Milton Lodge, The Rationalizing Voter

“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed”
― Milton Lodge, The Rationalizing Voter