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Dan Kahan Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8:47AM & thank you for thinking such cool things & sharing them!
Dan Kahan Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8:47AM 
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- Another installment of: "I only study science communication -- I didn't say I could do it!"
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- An interesting story: on whether "strengthening self-defense law deters crime"
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- Chewing the fat, so to speak...
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- Query on climate change, culture, ideology & identity-protective cognition
- Yow--lots of great comments on "science literacy vs. climate-change science literacy"
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- WSMD? JA!, episode 3: It turns out that Independents are as just partisan in cognition as Democrats & Republicans after all!
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- A surprising (to me) discovery: reflective Independents...
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- Giving thanks for ... Popper!
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 4: "A new political science ..."
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 3: Popper's Revenge....
- The Liberal Republic of Science, part 2: What is it?!
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- More R^2 envy!
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- Lecture today at TU Delft
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- The cultural certification of truth in the Liberal Republic of Science (or part 2 of why cultural cognition is not a bias)
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- What should I say to Chief Justice Roberts the day after the health care decision?
- Nullius in verba? Surely you are joking, Mr. Hooke! (or Why cultural cognition is not a bias, part 1)
- Happy 100th birthday, Turing!
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- What does the Trayvon Martin case mean? What *should* it mean? part 1
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- Another video lecture: University of Minnesota, on psychology of "misinformation"
- Cool book: Harré, Psychology for a Better World
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- Coolest debiasing study (I've) ever (read)
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- Report from Garrison Institute Climate Change conference: the good & not so good...
- Slides from Garrison Institute talk
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- The ideological symmetry of motivated reasoning, round 15
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- Two common (& recent) mistakes about dual process reasoning & cognitive bias
- The Goldilocks "theory" of public opinion on climate change
- More politics, pepper spray & cognition
- Hey, again, Chris Mooney...
- Hey, Chris Mooney ... (or the Liberal Republic of Science project)
- Efforts at promoting healthier diet undermined by mixed messaging?
- Is cultural cognition a bummer? Part 2
- R^2 ("r squared") envy
- Is cultural cognition a bummer? Part 1
- Handbook of Risk Theory
- Answer to Andy Revkin about Murray Gell-mann
- Cultural cognitive reality monitoring
- More on ideological symmetry of motivated reasoning (but is that really what's important?)
- New CCP geoengineering study
- much scarier than nanotechnology
- question on feedback between cultural affinity & credibility
- Industrial strength risk perception measure
- U.S. risk-perception/polarization snapshot
- Sood & Darley's "plasticity of harm"
- Cultural vs. ideological cognition, part 3
- Cultural vs. ideological cognition, part 2
- Cultural vs. ideological cognition, part 1
- Do experts use cultural cognition?
- The Ideological Symmetry of Motivated Reasoning
- Political psychology of misinformation at University of Minnesota
- Polluting the Science Communication Environment
- Democratic v. Republican Cognition
- Talk at AGU 2011 Conference
- In Search of -- Forensic Science Literacy
- Do more educated people see more risk -- or less -- in climate change?
- Market Consensus vs. Scientific Consensus
- Politics, Cognition & Pepper Spray
- Two Communication Sciences for Plata's Republic
- Cognitive Illiberalism & Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law
- Saw a Protest Slide Show
- Profiles of Risk Perception: Normality & Pathology
- Science communication isn't soulcraft (or shouldn't be)
- Prison Overcrowding, Recidivism & Crime
- More Immigrants, Less Crime?
- Cultural Cognition and the Supreme Court
- NPR Story on Climate Change
- NYT Sunday Magazine Calls for End to Cognitive Illiberalism
- Scalia and the Cross
- Supreme Court to Examine Chicago Gun Ban
- Kobe Bryant, Anita Bryant, and Big Ben
- Easterbrook on Climate Change
- Robots That DO NOT Eat Humans
- The Next Frontier of Risk Perception: AI
- yellow statistics
- Combining Likert Categories and Embracing a Simulation-Based Mindset
- Whales, Sonar, and Cultural Cognition
- NY Times: Cultural Cognition & Judicial Appointments
popular papers
Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Science Literacy and Climate Change
"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction
Geoengineering and the Science Communication Environment: a Cross-Cultural Experiment
Fixing the Communications Failture
Why We Are Poles Apart on Climate Change
The Cognitively Illiberal State
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study
Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology
Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? An Empirical Examination of Scott v. Harris
Cultural Cognition and Public Policy
Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in "Acquaintance Rape" Cases
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect
Fear of Democracy: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk
Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk
Dan Kahan Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8:47AM
Research of the Cultural Cognition Project is or has been supported by the National Science Foundation; by the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars; by the Arcus Foundation; by the Ruebhausen Fund at Yale School; the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University; and by GWU, Temple, and NYU Law Schools. You can contact us here.
Reader Comments (2)
The most tragic irony — or, perhaps, greatest frontier for redemption — is that today, we’re still debating the very civil liberty and basic human right the violation of which precipitated Turing’s suicide, but we’re waging our wars, fueling and following that debate, largely via the machine he invented. More than half a century later, how many Turings are we forcing to be smaller than they are, and how many are we losing completely?
Sabrina, for more material to fuel your ruminations on this irony, read George Dyson's truly wonderful Turing's Cathedral