IndexSoviet Union, 163, 164, 215, 237,
342
Spain, 76
Spangler, W. D., 159
Speech, 137; habits of, 142, 303—6,
367—70. See also Grammar; Lan-
guage; Verbal categories
Speeches, 45, 50, 324, 330, 387;
rhetoric of, 347, 395; State of the
Union, 310—11; writers of,
174-75, 179, 265
Spontaneity, 179—81, 314, 371 —
72
Stability: of level of complexity, 331;
of trait score, 321-23, 382
Stalin, Josef, 76, 79
Standardization, 167—68, 1770. 3
Starr, Roger, 3O2n. 8
State complexity, 249, 251—54
Statements, of political leaders,
178-79
State of the Union message, 310—11
Steingart, I., 137
Stephanopoulos, George, 332
Stewart, M., 184
Stone, W. F., 71
Stories, construction of, 271—73
Strategy, 226—27, 392 ~95> 399~4°°-
See also International relations
Stress, 139, 140, 260; disruptive,
377-78; effects of, 79-80; Hus-
sein's, 346; response to, 152
Streufert, S., 269
Structural variable, 248
Studies, uses of, 50. See also Research
Subject, in VICS, 224-25
Suedfeld, Peter, 6, 27-28, 65, 255,
445; on cognitive manager, 249;
on complexity, 253, 406; construc-
tion of stories by, 272; on strategy,
405
Sullivan, A., 121
Sunni tribes, 353
Supreme Court justices, motives of,
163
Survivor, Hussein as, 349, 358
Suspiciousness, of paranoid personal-
ity, 93
Syria, 205—6, 338Tactics, 326—28, 404—7; flexibility of,
230—31; intensity of, 227. See also
International relations
Taiwan, 77
Tanzania, 393
Target, 394; nature of audience, 207;
opinion of audience, 262; VICS,
224-25
Tartakoff, Helen, 85
Task environment, 254
Task focus, 197—99
Task force, 318, 377, 379, 383. See
also Advisers
Taylor, A. J. P., 2
Teamwork, 87. See also Advisers
Technology, 60-61, 265-70
Temperament, 22. See also Traits
Temporal consistency strategy, 405
Tenure, 207
Terrorism, 61, 409—10. See also Inter-
national relations
Tetlock, Phillip E., 6, 27-28, 65,
255, 260, 445; on complexity,
252, 258, 262, 263, 264, 406; on
strategy, 404
Texts, scoring on, 172
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT),
24* 175
Theory: of character, no—n; choice
of, 106—8; cognitive consistency,
217, 219, 224; cognitive manager,
390; complexity, 246-49, 254,
331; confidence in, 129; and evi-
dence, 113; gap with practice,
400-401, 403; international rela-
tions, 401—2; as level of analysis,