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How can you have effective and engaged political conversations? Cognitive Politics reviews scientific discoveries, successful historical campaigns, and communications strategies. We’ll integrate ideas that are rarely combined, and explore the contradictions. Cognitive scientists are discovering the underlying differences between liberal and conservative mindsets. Cognitive Politics starts by exploring ideas coming from universities, such as George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant and Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory. Later chapters merge the academic ideas with communication techniques from mediators and business negotiators and compare them with historical examples. The latter half is a workbook that puts these ideas into practice, applying them to different issues that are notorious for getting us into confusing and unproductive political arguments. We’ll make the cognitive science relevant and useful for Thanksgiving conversations or Facebook.Today many of us feel somewhere between hopeless and angry. There are many techniques for more effective, alive and heartfelt engagement. These ideas are scattered across a wide variety of sources and rarely reach the front lines of political campaigns. Most books that want to help your side “win” just lead to arguments. Most that start with your values ignore the need to win elections. Cognitive Politics aims to bring many ideas and integrate them so that talking politics can be a mindful, challenging, heart-opening activity.