Detecting the 'Artful Dodge'

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09/14/2012

Sep. 14, 2012

Detecting the 'Artful Dodge'

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During the Republican debates, Mitt Romney told a moderator "You get to ask the questions you want. I get to give the answers I want." Social psychologist Todd Rogers talks about how likely voters are to notice a subtle dodge. James Fowler joins to discuss whether social media can send more people to the polls.

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Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer

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James Fowler
Author, "Connected: How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do" (Little, Brown & Company, 2009)
Professor, Medical Genetics and Political Science
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California
Todd Rogers
Social psychologist
Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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