Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition

By Dan Kahan. 2017

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. (2019, unknown): “What cognitive factors drive belief in, versus rejection of, fake news? Perhaps the most broadly accepted claim is that belief in political fake news – the category that has captured the majority of the public’s attention – is driven primarily by partisanship (Kahan, 2017; Van Bavel & Pereira, 2018)”
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention (2020, result): “While much of the discussion around fake news has focused on political ideology and partisan identity (Beck, 2017; Kahan, 2017; Taub, 2017; Van Bavel & Pereira, 2018), our data are more consistent with recent studies on political misinformation that provide both correlational (Pennycook & Rand, 2019”
Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality (2019, background): “Second, news consumption patterns vary markedly across the political spectrum (16) and it has been argued that political partisans are motivated consumers of misinformation (17).”
Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News (2018, unknown): “…has been taken to be a fundamental aspect of how individuals interact with political misinformation and disinformation (Swire, Berinsky, Lewandowsky, & Ecker, 2017) and has been used to explain the spread of fake news (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017; Beck, 2017; Calvert, 2017; Kahan, 2017; Singal, 2017).”
How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of COVID-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S. (2020, background): “Previous academic research has demonstrated that people accept factually incorrect information as true if it originates from trusted sources or affirms their political and social worldviews (Kahan, 2017).”
A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation (2020, methodology): “…favorable for Republicans in an early study (Pennycook & Rand, 2019), we used fake news to test a popular theory about motivated reasoning (“identity-protective cognition”, see Kahan, 2013, 2017), in which it is argued, contrary to much work in the dualprocess tradition (Evans & Stanovich,…”
The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, unknown): “For example, it has been argued that people are motivated consumers of (mis)information [16] – that they engage in 'identity-protective cognition' when faced with politically valenced content, and this leads them to be overly believing of content that is consistent with their partisan identity and o”
The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings (2020, background): “…news (Bronstein et al. 2019; Pennycook and Rand 2019b, c), rather than more likely according to the motivated cognition account (Kahan et al. 2012, Kahan 2017), and that insofar as analytic thinking is associated with political polarization, it may be because individuals who are more analytic are…”