Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments

By Kevin Arceneaux. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity (2014, background): “Several published, peer-reviewed articles leverage MTurk for all or part of their analysis (e.g. Arceneaux 2012; Gerber et al. 2011; Huber and Paris 2013).”
How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It (2018, background): “For instance, Arceneaux (2012) hypothesizes that persuasive messages that evoke fear or anxiety will have a greater e↵ect on attitudes.”
Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments (2016, background): “…21 March 2016 19:51 Although this research clarifies frame–issue connections that have greater and lesser effects on preferences (e.g., Aarøe 2011, Arceneaux 2012, Baumgartner et al. 2006, Druckman & Bolsen 2011), the literature is far from identifying what exactly makes a value frame strong or…”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “For instance, people may form false beliefs by making incorrect inferences from available information (Prasad et al., 2009; Thorson, 2015b)—a process that is often shaped by cognitive biases (Arceneaux, 2012; Petersen, 2015).”
The Effects of Issue Salience, Elite Influence, and Policy Content on Public Opinion (2016, background): “Research that focuses on the tone and content of information suggests that its persuasiveness is conditional on the degree to which it evokes a fearful/anxious response (Arceneaux, 2012; Gadarian, 2010).”
Crisis signaling: how Italy's coronavirus lockdown affected incumbent support in other European countries (2020, background): “Anxiety, for instance, causes people to be more averse to losses, biasing how they process political information (Arceneaux, 2012).”
“Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents (2015, background): “Researchers have used the results from MTurk surveys to answer a wide array of questions ranging from understanding the limitations of voters to exploring cognitive biases and the strengths of political arguments (Arceneaux, 2012; Grimmer et al., 2012; Huber et al., 2012). As this type of work has g”
Debunking: A Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Efficacy of Messages Countering Misinformation (2017, background): “Conditions that yield confirming explanations may be associated with increased misinformation persistence and a weakened debunking effect (Arceneaux, 2012; Johnson-Laird, 2013).”
Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015, background): “Consequently, the cues that are available for our evolved, representational systems will constantly shift, depending on the precise elite messages we are receiving (see, e.g., Arceneaux, 2012).”