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Explaining Preferences from Behavior: A Cognitive dissonance ApproachAvidit Acharya, Stanford UniversityMatthew Blackwell, Harvard UniversityMaya Sen, Harvard UniversityThe standard approach in positive political theory posits that action choices are the consequences of Preferences . Socialpsychology in particular, Cognitive dissonance theory suggests the opposite: Preferences may themselves be affectedby action choices. We present a framework that applies this idea to three models of political choice: (1) one in whichpartisanship emerges naturally in a two-party system despite policy being multidimensional, (2) one in which interactionswith people who express different views can lead to empathetic changes in political positions, and (3) one in which ethnicor racial hostility increases after acts of violence.

that actions could affect preferences through cognitive dis-sonance. One key aspect of cognitive dissonance theory is that individuals experience a mental discomfort after taking actions that appear to be in conflict with their starting pref-erences. To minimize or avoid this discomfort, they change

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