Hot Cognition or Cool Consideration? Testing the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Political Decision Making

By David P. Redlawsk. Journal of Politics, 2002

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Assessing Selective Exposure in Experiments: The Implications of Different Methodological Choices (2013, background): “Communication Methods and Measures, 7:172–194, 2013 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1931-2458 print/1931-2466 online DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2013.813923 Assessing Selective Exposure in Experiments: The Implications of Different Methodological Choices Lauren Feldman”
Triangulating Political Responsibility: The Motivated Formation of Responsibility Judgments (2006, background): “Perhaps due to the prevalence of such directional goals in political contexts, a growing body of literature reports that citizens often fail to process political arguments and evidence in an unbiased manner (Lodge & Taber, 2001; Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Redlawsk, 2002; Taber, Cann, & Kucsova, 200”
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large (2015, neutral): “And so Hirschman appeared to argue, in a way that suggests that he meant to describe a general”
The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”? (2010, background): “This finding clearly fits patterns previously shown by Taber and Lodge (2006) as well as Redlawsk (2002) with attitude strengthening effects evident in the face of incongruent information.”
The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a Function of Political Sophistication (2011, background): “…mold prefer less obtrusive measures like latency timers to assess whether affect, the remembered “residue” of a discrete emotion, has been stored as part of an object schema in long-term memory (Cassino and Lodge 2007; Lodge and Tabor 2000, 2005; Redlawsk 2002; Redlawsk, Civenttini, and Lau 2007).”
Boomerang Effects in Science Communication (2012, background): “For example, Redlawsk (2002) found that politically “motivated reasoners” exposed to counterattitudinal messages about their preferred political candidates actually spent more processing time on the message (counterarguing/integrating new information) but still processed the information in a biased…”
The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science (2013, background): “challenges one’s prior beliefs accompanied by uncritical acceptance of anything that is attitude-consonant [54–56].”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “19 Yet Redlawsk (2002), Bolsen et al. (2014), and Bolsen and Druckman (2015) ﬁnd that under certain conditions accuracy motivations can weaken directional goals.”
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation (2014, background): “As another example, Redlawsk (2002) argues that memory-based processing might emulate accuracy-motivated reasoning, but Druckman and Leeper (2012) suggest that memory-based processing encourages recency biases.”
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019, background): “For example, people tend to dismiss information that is inconsistent with their political ideology (Lodge & Taber, 2005; Redlawsk, 2002; Redlawsk, Civettini & Emmerson, 2010; Strickland, Taber & Lodge, 2011) and engage in biased search for information that is supportive of their beliefs (i.e.,…”
Learning More from Political Communication Experiments: Pretreatment and Its Effects (2012, background): “Strong attitudes often lead to motivated reasoning where individuals avoid, ignore, or reject information that is inconsistent with their prior opinions (e.g., Druckman and Bolsen 2011; Druckman et al. 2010; Kunda 2001; Lodge and Taber 2000; Redlawsk 2002; Rudolph 2006).”
Not All Sparks Light a Fire: Stakeholder and Shareholder Reactions to Critical Events in Contested Markets (2017, background): “…or attitude (Lord, Ross, and Lepper, 1979; MacCoun, 1998), such that information conforming with prior beliefs is reinforced (Nickerson, 1998; Redlawsk, 2002; Taber and Lodge, 2006), whereas information conflicting with prior beliefs is discounted (Ditto and Lopez, 1992), more critically…”
Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective (2006, background): “In this respect, social dominance theorists have much in common with proponents of ideology as motivated social cognition, who have shown, in broad terms, that personal and social motivations can make important contributions to policy-related attitudes and behaviors (e.g., Borowiak and Golec, 2004; ”
The Motivated Processing of Political Arguments (2009, result): “et al. 2006; Redlawsk 2002; Rudolph 2006; Taber 2003; Taber and Lodge 2006; Taber et al. 2001).”
The Unmet Potential of Interdisciplinary Research: Political Psychological Approaches to Voting and Public Opinion (2009, background): “In introducing the theory of motivated reasoning to political science, Lodge and Taber (2000) explicitly build on the on-line (OL) processing theme, with affect serving as the bridge (also see Redlawsk 2001; Taber et al. 2001).”