Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

By Dan Kahan, Ellen Peters, E. Dawson, Paul Slovic. Behavioural Public Policy, 2017

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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What shapes perceptions of climate change? New research since 2010 (2016, background): “Ideological polarization on climate change perceptions and beliefs has continued to increase over time,(47) with additional evidence that this may be the result of motivated reasoning.(48,49) Feygina et al.”
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (2020, background): “Democratic citizens have a stake in dispelling rumors and falsehoods, but in societies with polarized social groups, individuals also have a stake in maintaining their personal standing in social groups that matter to them (Kahan et al. 2017).”
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.”
They Might Be a Liar But They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation (2019, methodology): “(2017) and Nyhan et al. (2019) exclusively used claims made by Donald Trump.”
Epistemic rationality: Skepticism toward unfounded beliefs requires sufficient cognitive ability and motivation to be rational (2018, background): “…strongly value epistemic rationality, by contrast, analytic thinking skills should have little effect on the rationality of their beliefs, because these skills are likely to either remain disengaged, or employed in pursuit of preferred conclusions rather than the truth (e.g., Kahan et al., 2017).”
Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, methodology): “In an experiment by Kahan et al. (2013), individuals were presented with identical data in two different contexts and hen were asked which hypothesis the data supported.”
Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension (2016, background): “For example, Kahan et al. (2013, 18) show that liberal Democrats are more likely than conservative Republicans to correctly interpret statistical information indicating that gun control decreases violence.”
Influencing Climate Change Attitudes in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020, background): “…of consensus messaging – especially when looking at attitudes such as belief and support for policy – is debated (Dixon, Hmielowski, & Ma, 2019, 2017; Kahan, 2017; Kerr & Wilson, 2018; Ma, Dixon, & Hmielowski, 2019; van der Linden, Leiserowitz, & Maibach, 2018, 2017; van der Linden, Maibach, &…”
Facts and Myths about Misperceptions (2020, background): “In the Kahan et al. (2017) study described above, for instance, polarization in interpretation of the data depending on whether it was labeled as concerning skin cream or gun control was greatest among the most numerate respondents, who still tended to accept the intuitive answer when it was congeni”
Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. (2019, neutral): “Specifically, whereas research on political topics such as climate change (Kahan et al., 2012) and gun control (Kahan et al., 2017) indicates that political polarization increases as a function of increased analytic ability, our findings indicate that more analytic people are less (not more) likely…”
Working While Liberal/Conservative: A Review of Political Ideology in Organizations (2020, background): “Put differently, political ideology affects decision-making because individuals arrive at the conclusions they want to be true rather than those that are objectively more accurate, so long as they can (consciously or not) justify their decisions (Kahan et al., 2013; Kunda, 1990).”