Many factors explain how force was employed against Iraq amid considerable opposition. The paper emphasizes that communication is vital to both domestic politics and international relations, and the interactions between these two levels. The work applies a public relations, or...

We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...