Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study

By Dan Kahan. 2012

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Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments (2018, background): “More recently, Kahan (2012) has applied the Theory of Cultural Cognition to public perceptions of risk on issues such as climate change.”
Working While Liberal/Conservative: A Review of Political Ideology in Organizations (2020, background): “Motivated reasoning explains how political ideology can bias attention and information processing (Jost, 2006; Jost et al., 2009; Kahan, 2013).”
The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs (2020, background): “Weber, 2010; Exley, 2015; Gneezy et al., 2015; Di Tella et al., 2015; Falk, 2017; Grossman and van der Weele, forthcoming), and belief polarization (see, e.g., Kahan, 2013).”
Political Fact-Checking on Twitter: When Do Corrections Have an Effect? (2018, background): “As Kahan (2012) writes, because what any ordinary individual believes about policy will not make a difference, the collective irrationality of ideologically motivated reasoning does not by itself create any reliable pressure or mechanism to induce individuals to process information in a different,…”
Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news (2018, background): “Although analytic thinking did not exacerbate motivated reasoning in terms of partisanship (Kahan, 2013, 2017b), a recent reanalysis found that partisanship did shape bias in the judgment of true and false news (Batailler et al., 2021).”