The potential role of actively open-minded thinking in preventing motivated reasoning about controversial science

2018/06/01 by Neil Stenhouse, Teresa Myers, Teresa A. Myers +6 · 1 voice
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Education and Critical Thinking Development #Educational Strategies and Epistemologies #Misinformation and Its Impacts

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.06.001

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Citations

• Citizens’, Scientists’, and Policy Advisors’ Beliefs about Global Warming
• The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001–2010
• Strategies for Teaching Students to Think Critically
• When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions
• The Partisan Brain
• The case for motivated reasoning.
• False-Positive Psychology
• A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains
• Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology

Discussions

• Higher levels of actively open-minded thinking were associated with increased likelihood of belief in human-caused global warming, regardless of participants' political ideology, scientific knowledge, [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]