Notes
1 Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1957).
2 Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (New York: HarperCollins 2006).
3 Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott, ‘The Intelligence Analysis Crisis’ in Loch K. Johnson (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence (New York: Oxford University Press 2010) pp.361, 365–6.
4 Uri Bar-Joseph, Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The United States, Israel, and Britain (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995).
5 Robert Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2011).
6 Charles Lord, Lee Ross and Mark Lepper, ‘Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37/11 (1979) pp.2098–109.