Personal, Powerful, Political

Personal, Interpersonal, and Political Temperaments

Personal Ethics and Political Ethics∗

The moral ambit understood in the generic sense, as that which is opposed to the amoral has an identical extension to that of the ambit of freedom. Private life as well as professional, economic, and political life are equally moral realities. Together with personal ethics there also exist professional ethics, economic ethics, social ethics, and political ethics. Here, we will not discuss the d...

taghiyyeh, personal taghiyyeh, political taghiyyeh.

based on a new approach to the holly qur'an and to the behavior of the wise, the present paper studies political taghiyyeh (act of concealing one's own belief). after elaborating on the concept of taghiyyeh briefly, personal and socio-political taghiyyeh are explained. with respect to personal taghiyyeh, there is a discussion over the obligatory precepts of the types of taghiyyeh base...

“Personal Influence”: Social Context and Political Competition

We study a model of electoral competition where voters obtain information on candidates’ platforms through campaign advertising, and word-of-mouth communication. We show that when the costs of campaign advertising are low, an increase in word-of-mouth communication among voters causes polarization. In particular, the more voters can exchange political information between each other, the more of...

Engaged listeners: shared neural processing of powerful political speeches.

Powerful speeches can captivate audiences, whereas weaker speeches fail to engage their listeners. What is happening in the brains of a captivated audience? Here, we assess audience-wide functional brain dynamics during listening to speeches of varying rhetorical quality. The speeches were given by German politicians and evaluated as rhetorically powerful or weak. Listening to each of the speec...