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What Specific Factors Influence a Person's Initial Orientation to Politics

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What specific factors influence a person's initial orientation to politics? Do political beliefs tend to be relatively stable over time, or are they susceptible to change in the face of new conditions or new information?


Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.

Framing Effect

A cognitive bias where people react differently to a particular choice or situation depending on how it is presented, or "framed."

Heuristics

Simplified strategies or mental shortcuts used to make decisions or solve problems quickly.

Fixations

Persistent focusing of psychological energy on a particular stage of psychosexual development, according to Freudian theory.

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