Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

By Dan Kahan. 2008

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model (2015, background): “In fact, it's not uncommon for subjects to have high scores on competing scales, which is problematic, since in theory, individuals cannot be characterized by mutually inconsistent worldviews (Kahan, 2012).”
Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, background): “The basic premise of the cultural cognition thesis is that people are expected to credit or dismiss empirical evidence about societal risks based on whether it coheres or conflicts with their cultural values, a process described as “identity-protective cognition” (Kahan, 2012).”
Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act (2019, result): “Value orientations capture the influence of broader cultural values on personal risk perceptions, in line with the cultural theory of risk (Douglas & Wildavsky, 1982) and the cultural cognition approach (Kahan, 2012).”
Preaching to different choirs: How to motivate dismissive, uncommitted, and alarmed audiences to adapt to climate change? (2016, background): “It would be particularly bene ﬁ cial to investigate the effect of different messaging strategies on audience segments derived from in ﬂ uential models of basic human values (Schwartz & Bilsky, 1987), cultural cognition (Kahan, 2012), and environmental worldviews (Dunlap et al., 2000).”
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world (2020, background): “…the virus1 (ranging from 9% to 28% of the sample depending on the country), a measure of social amplification of risk (via friends and family), as well as prosocial values and individualistic worldviews (via the individualism-communitarianism dimension of the cultural cognition scale (Kahan 2012)).”
Culturally antagonistic memes and the Zika virus: an experimental test (2017, positive): “This model supplies a powerful explanatory framework; empirical studies have linked the processes it describes to numerous risk conflicts, from ones over the reality of climate change to the consequences of gun control to the safety of nuclear power (Kahan 2010, 2012).”
Public Views on Policies Involving Nudges (2015, methodology): “To explore if individual differences in thinking and feeling influence attitudes toward the presented nudge-policies we included the short versions of the Cultural Cognition Worldview Group scale (Kahan 2014) and the Rational-Experiential Inventory scale (Norris et al. 1998).”
Psychological Barriers to Energy Conservation Behavior: The Role of Worldviews and Climate Change Risk Perception (2018, background): “…to describe four cultural biases (i.e., hierarchical individualist, hierarchical communitarian, egalitarian individualist, and egalitarian communitarian) according to each person’s location on a grid-group map (see Kahan, 2012; Kahan, Braman, Gastil, Slovic, & Mertz, 2007; Kahan et al., 2012).”
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus (2011, background): “…harm) with significance, making them worthy of note and amenable to recollection in the way that the availability heuristic presupposes (Kahan and Braman 2003); trigger the analogical associations that result in biased assimilation of information (Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Kahan et al. 2009);…”