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Security studies

the argument that leaders judge adversary intentions from vivid personal impressions and costly signals they attend to, while intelligence agencies weigh military capabilities.

In security studies, selective attention thesis refers to the argument that leaders judge adversary intentions from vivid personal impressions and costly signals they attend to, while intelligence agencies weigh military capabilities. This meaning comes from Yarhi-Milo (2013) in International Security.[1]

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Yarhi-Milo, K. (2013). In the Eye of the Beholder: How Leaders and Intelligence Communities Assess the Intentions of Adversaries. International Security, 38(1), 7-51. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00128

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