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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.

arethedependent variables.Indeed,avast subfield ofpolitical science—political behavior—is concerned with the origins of partisanship, ideology, ethnic identification, and so on. Our examples show how the traditional rational choice approach can be extended to provide a better understanding of the

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