• DOI:10.1017/S0020818313000015
Corpus ID: 146146377

Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War

@article{Mercer2013EmotionAS,
  title={Emotion and Strategy in the Korean War},
  author={J. Mercer},
  journal={International Organization},
  year={2013},
  volume={67},
  pages={221 - 252}
}

• J. Mercer
• Published 2013
• Psychology
• International Organization

Abstract What makes a diplomatic or military signal credible? In strategic settings where deception is possible, rational actors' interpretations rely on their beliefs, intuition, and imagination—they rely on emotion. Two properties of emotion—as an assimilation mechanism and its use as evidence—are key to addressing four strategic problems. First, emotion explains why actors worry needlessly about their reputations. Second, emotion is important to understanding costly signals. Third, emotion… Expand

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