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"Anger in Political Decision Making" published on by Oxford University Press.

A study to analyze the emotional factors, esp hostility (H), affecting internat'l decision-making. 2 historical decisions, occurring in the 6-week period prior to WWI, were selected: the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, & the Russian decision to mobilize the entire Russian armed forces. Concern was focused on 3 aspects of H: (1) behavioral effects of feelings of persecution; (2) effects of perceiving H in the environment, regardless of who was seen as the object; (3) effects of being hostile. 6 hyp's were formulated: the more the leader sees himself as the object of H, (A) the more often he will make hostile statements, (B) the more states he sees as hostile toward himself, (C) the more hostile states he sees, (D) the less often he will make statements of goals or policy, (E) the more H the leader perceives in the environment, the fewer policy statements he will make, & (F) the more hostile statements the leader makes, the more H he will perceive in his environment. In analyzing the 2 historical decisions chosen, it was discovered that (a) perceiving itself as the object of H does not necessarily affect a state's behavior in these 2 ways: it does not necessarily make a state more or less hostile nor influence it to issue more or less policy statements; (b) a feeling of persecution is related to a state's perception of many hostile states in the environment, & to its perception that many diff states are hostile to itself; (c) perception of H does not affect the stating of policy; & (d) a state which is behaving in a hostile manner tends to see other states as hostile. D. Coonerman.