Go Big or Go Home? Positive Emotions and Responses to Wartime Success

摘要: Military successes present war leaders with a choice between maintaining their existing aims and strategy changing one or the other to extend gains make cheaper. “Staying course” minimizes risk of failure but also foregoes possible gains. Making change increases leaves nothing on table. I argue that emotional responses—particularly contentment joy—account for leaders’ preferences approach war. Joy, elicited by novel good news, makes more likely because it leads derogation risks obstacles. Contentment, expected tends produce resistance change. substantiate my claims through World War II-era case studies from Japan United States.