Reconsidering the Rational Public: Cognition, Heuristics, and Mass Opinion

By J. Kuklinski, P. Quirk. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015, background): “As becomes clear in the course of this article, we must rethink each and every principle (see also Druckman, Kuklinski, & Sigelman, 2009; Kuklinski & Quirk, 2000).”
Rethinking the Role of Political Information (2011, background): “Heuristics sometimes help low-information citizens make ‘‘good’’ decisions (Boudreau 2009; Kuklinski et al. 2001; Popkin 1991; Rahn, Aldrich, and Borgida 1994), but in other settings, only the well-informed can effectively utilize heuristics (Kuklinski and Quirk 2000; Lau and Redlawsk 2001).”
Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, background): “…understand and model voting behavior, modern political scientists and public choice economists have largely assumed that voters are rational actors, whose political choices are free from biases and resistant to the influence of irrelevant cues (Kuklinski and Quirk 2000; Quattrone and Tversky 1988).”
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation (2014, background): “…lead citizens astray if the parties take positions contrary to their ideology or broader reputations and partisans in turn end up supporting policies that are inconsistent with their values (also see Dancey & Sheagley, 2012; Kuklinski & Quirk, 2000; Lavine et al., 2012; Sniderman & Stiglitz, 2012).”
The Unmet Potential of Interdisciplinary Research: Political Psychological Approaches to Voting and Public Opinion (2009, background): “Although some scholars noted the fallibility of heuristics (e.g., Bartels 1996; Lau and Redlawsk 2006; Kuklinski and Quirk 2000; Somin 2006), the thrust of this work has been to construe heuristics as the next-best thing to fully rational democratic decision-making.”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “As with heuristics, scholars continue to debate the usefulness of aggregation for overcoming ignorance (e.g., Caplan, 2007; Kuklinski & Quirk, 2000).”
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election‐Year Economy (2014, background): “…intuitive judgments, “people take their heuristics off-the-shelf, use them unknowingly and automatically, and rarely worry about their accuracy” (Kuklinski and Quirk 2000), a pattern that holds not only for amateurs, but also for experts such as statisticians making quick judgments (Tversky…”
Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic (2011, background): “Yet an increasing number of scholars have begun questioning the standard account (Bartels 1996; Druckman et al. 2009; Kuklinski & Quirk 2000; Petersen 2009).”