Warping Time: How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present, and Future

by Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner

Book Overview

Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner's simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories their subjects heard about the past, these "history lessons" moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 16 percentage points; forecasts of the future moved contemporary policy preferences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047205600X
• ISBN13: 9780472056002
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"