Cultural cognition of scientific consensus

By Dan Kahan, H. Jenkins‐Smith, Donald Braman. 2011

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding Public Hurricane Evacuation Decisions and Responses to Forecast and Warning Messages (2016, background): “…social organization and priorities (e.g., Douglas 1970; Douglas and Wildavsky 1982; Dake and Wildavsky 1990; Peters and Slovic 1996; Leiserowitz 2006; Kahan et al. 2007, 2011; Goebbert et al. 2012; McNeeley and Lazrus 2014; Greenberg et al. 2014; Lazrus 2015, manuscript submitted to Human Ecol.).”
Media Literacy as a Key Strategy Toward Improving Public Acceptance of Climate Change Science (2011, background): “Scientists must be schooled in communication and public outreach (Kareiva 2010).”
The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm, Part 1: What Politically Motivated Reasoning Is and How to Measure It (2016, neutral): “And they do (Kahan et al., 2011).”
Modeling Attitudes Toward Science: Development and Validation of the Credibility of Science Scale (2017, background): “…measures, we predicted that people who were concerned about big government and who supported free markets would show more negative PCoS because of the implications of scientific consensus for government intervention and regulation of free markets (Kahan et al., 2011; Lewandowsky et al., 2013).”
Climate change and meat eating: An inconvenient couple? (2013, background): “Skepticism seems to be associated less with ignorance and misunderstanding on the part of the public than with values and moral issues (Feinberg & Willer, 2011; Heath & Gifford, 2006; Kahan et al., 2011; Whitmarsh, 2011).”
Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change? (2016, background): “…growing evidence that broader cultural and environmental worldviews, not just climate change speci ﬁ c beliefs, play a central role in determining how individuals perceive, process, and respond to information environmental risks (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982; Dunlap et al., 2000; Kahan et al., 2011).”
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics (2019, methodology): “The first selected issue, climate change (CC), has wide recognition and is deeply divided along American political views (Hart & Feldman, 2016; Kahan et al., 2011; Leiserowitz et al., 2019) as a consequent of ideological tenets and also through partisan politicizing of the issue.”
Cognitive Biases in the Assimilation of Scientific Information on Global Warming and Genetically Modified Food (2015, background): “Nevertheless, Kahan et al. (2011) posited that failure of scientific consensus to temper public disagreement was due to individuals perceiving expert support for a prior belief rather than a lack of willingness to adopt scientific evidence. In the present study, we specifically define conservatism a”