{"id":1754,"date":"2009-09-18T01:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2009-09-18T01:36:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:36:51","slug":"swagga-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/09\/18\/swagga-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Swagga’ and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So people pick cockiness, or to use contemporary urban parlance, swagga’<\/a> over actual competence.\u00a0 So says a researcher:<\/p>\n

The research, by Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. Moore argues that in competitive situations, this can drive those offering advice to increasingly exaggerate how sure they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The piece goes on to describe other ways in which people are more drawn to those who present themselves as self-assured.\u00a0 Isn’t this something Jay Z, or Erving Goffman, already knows.\u00a0 What does this fact of human behavior say about our politics?\u00a0 It sure explains the appeal of a Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh.\u00a0 Maybe that’s the problem with the progressive left, it lacks swagga’… I mean Amy Goodman?\u00a0 Al Franken?\u00a0 Lovely people, I’m sure, but c’mon.\u00a0 Even Chuck D couldn’t make Air America cool!<\/p>\n

An interesting thought experiment would consider how you could operationalize cockiness?<\/p>\n

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So people pick cockiness, or to use contemporary urban parlance, swagga’ over actual competence.\u00a0 So says a researcher: The research, by Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. Moore argues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}