# Limits of social cognition research as a basis of policy

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The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 4 January 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: social-cognition, public-policy, science.

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