Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs

By Charles Taber, Milton Lodge. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Evidence-based policymaking: promise, challenges and opportunities for accounting and financial markets research** (2018, positive): “In addition, Taber and Lodge (2006) provide evidence that citizens are biased-information processors when given evidence in policy debates.”
Affective Contagion in Effortful Political Thinking (2014, background): “Prior attitudes toward political objects will bias the retrieval of considerations (motivated bias) and both directly (prior-attitude effect) and indirectly (construction of evaluation) influence subsequently reported evaluations (Taber & Lodge, 2006).”
The Role of Evidence in Politics: Motivated Reasoning and Persuasion among Politicians (2017, neutral): “44 See, e.g., Baekgaard and Serritzlew 2016; Kahan et al. 2013; Lodge and Taber 2013; Taber, Cann, and Kucsova 2009; Taber and Lodge 2006.”
Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media‐Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory (2013, result): “The common tendency to counterargue attitude-discrepant political messages (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Taber & Lodge, 2006) means that exposure to fact checking can serve to activate attitude-consistent evidence, potentially reinforcing support for the disputed claim (Byrne & Hart, 2009; Nyhan &…”
Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions about Emergent Technologies (2011, background): “That these lie below 1.00 means that follow-up opinions are not more extreme, on average, than initial opinions: A unit increase in initial opinions leads to less than a unit increase in follow-up opinions (see Taber & Lodge, 2006, p. 765).”
Examining the role of CSR skepticism using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (2014, neutral): “Many disciplines discuss skepticism, including politics (e.g., Taber & Lodge, 2006), philosophy (e.g., McGrath, 2011), sociology (e.g., Freudenburg, Gramling, & Davidson, 2008), and psychology (e.g., Lilienfeld, 2012).”
Toward an Integrated Framework of Multiple Text Use (2019, background): “…attitudes within multiple text use to be associated with learners’ information selection, depth of processing, and performance, as assessed by both cognitive (e.g., text recall) and affective (e.g., attitude strength) outcomes (Ditto & Lopez, 1992; Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Taber & Lodge, 2006).”
Applying the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model to Examine Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policy (2014, background): “Describing the psychological process of evaluating information on a salient topic, Taber and Lodge (2006) define motivated reasoning as leading individuals with strongly held beliefs to be “prone to overly accommodate supportive evidence while dismissing out-of-hand evidence that challenges their…”