Language of Terror: How Neuroscience Influences Political Speech in the United States

by Joseph M. Siracusa, Kevin Noguchi, Wesley Kendall, et al.

Building on the emerging field of biopolitics of security, this research monograph demonstrates that political speech can be crafted to manipulate segments of the voting population who are inherently predisposed to being receptive to certain language. The authors, who come from both political science and behavioral neuroscience, examine how the human brain reacts to expressions of political ideology regarding terrorism. They apply these reactions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442235829
• ISBN13: 9781442235823
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"