Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition

2017/01/01 by Dan M. Kahan · 1 voice · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Social and Intergroup Psychology

paper · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2973067

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Citations

• The expressive rationality of inaccurate perceptions
• Citizens’, Scientists’, and Policy Advisors’ Beliefs about Global Warming
• When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions
• The Partisan Brain
• The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics
• Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government

Cited by

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• Misinformation, observational equivalence and the possibility of rationality
• VII—Can Arguments Change Minds?

Discussions

• People judge what they see by whether it fits their social-identity-group's beliefs. Nobody is immune. Our beliefs bend to match the group in private too, not just in public, and usually without us n [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]